Persons

Childers: Ubhato. (ADV.). On both sides, in two ways. U. sujāto, well born on both sides (i.e., father's and mother's, Jāt.2). U. naṭṭho, doubly lost, forlorn in two respects (Mah. 52). Often as the first part of a compound. Ubhatodaso (adj.), having a fringe at each end. Ubhatopasse, on both sides (Mah. 213). Ubhatomukho asso seems to mean a horse with a mouth at each end (tassa dvīsu passesu yavasaṃ denti so dvihi mukhehi khādati, Das. 25) or possibly with two heads. Ubhatosaṇgho, both priesthoods (viz. bhikkhusaṇgho and bhikkhunisaṇgho, Pāt. 108; Mah. 196, 224). Ubhatobyañjanako, having the characteristics of both sexes, hermaphrodite (Pāt. 28). Ubhatobhāgavimutto is a technical Buddhist term. I owe to Subh. the foll. passage from Vis. M., arūupajjhānena c'eva ariyamaggena cāti ubhatobhāgena vimutto ti ubhatobhāgavimutto, u. means one who is emancipated in two ways, namely by arūpajjhāna and by ariyamagga. He also quotes from Aṇguttara Nikāya, ubhatobhāgavimutto ti dvīhi bhāgehi vimutto arūpasamāpattiyā rūpakā-yato vimutto maggena nāmakāyato, so catunnaṃ arūpasamāpattīnam ekekato vuṭṭhāya saṇkhāre sammasitvā arahattappattānaṃ catunnan ti nirodhā vuṭṭhāya arahattaṃ pattassa anāgāmino vasena ca pancavidho hoti: of which Vij. sends me this translation, "Ubh. is he who is emancipated in two ways, by means of Arūpasamāpatti he is emancipated from the body of form, by means of the Magga from the body of Nāma. He is of five kinds, namely four who having risen from the Arūpasamāpatti one after another and having grasped the Saṇkhāras attains Arhatship, and the Anāgāmin who having risen from the Nirodha-samāpatti attains arhatship." From this it appears that the Ubh. may be either an arahatta-phalaṭṭha in one of the four Arūpa havens, or an anāgāmin who has attained arahattaphala through the Nirodha meditation.

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