清淨道論 喜 MuditāVisuddhimagga · Sympathetic Joy Muditā

I. Placement in the Outline

Base text　This unit’s base is CSCD (internal, not for publication). Every Pāli passage in this layer is copied verbatim from the base in this unit’s source column. There is one form of location: 〔CSCD §NN〕, byte-verifiable against the base column. Every chapter-and-section entry in this chapter’s Overview movement table records position only and has no section number; this layer neither supplies nor extrapolates one, so no chapter-and-section locus is attached. This chapter has no in-house page-matched Pāli, so no page range is recorded.

Unit title　The unit heading is ### Muditābhāvanākathā—the detailed discussion of the cultivation of sympathetic joy. Neither the chapter-title line nor the chapter’s own closing designation occurs in this unit.

Paragraph-number range　The base column contains only 〔CSCD §260〕, so the entire unit is one paragraph and occupies 2,141 bytes, the second shortest of the chapter’s five units. There is no gap in paragraph numbering to record.

Subheadings　The base column carries one ### subheading: the title of this unit.

Connections before and after　The compassion unit precedes at 〔CSCD §259〕, and the equanimity unit follows at 〔CSCD §261〕. This unit closes with Ayaṃ muditābhāvanāya vitthārakathā., in the same form as the units before and after it with only the name of the practice changed. The method in this unit repeatedly attaches itself to the goodwill unit through vuttanayeneva (“by the method stated”). Measured in this unit, the expression occurs four times, each explicitly attached to goodwill.

II. Terms and Renderings

This heading records only how terms function and are located in this unit. The normative glossary governs their reading, and this heading does not decide terms not settled there. Readings already established in the goodwill unit are not re-explained: atippiyasahāyaka (dearly loved friend), majjhatta (neutral person), sīmāsambheda (breaking the boundaries), anodhisopharaṇā, odhisopharaṇā, and disāpharaṇā (the three kinds of pervasion), and tikacatukkajjhāna (three-and-four jhānas). The compassion unit established akhetta (barren ground). Only terms new to this unit are listed below.

III. Variant Readings

Scope of materials　This unit has no in-house page-matched Pāli, so there is no collation block to record; the only searchable surface is the base column itself. The record does not adjudicate.

Measured complete survey　A byte-level survey of the entire unit in the base column found zero occurrences of parenthetical variant markers such as (sī.), (syā.), (kaṃ.), and (pī.); zero occurrences of the variant-recitation marker pāṭho; and only one form of square-bracket annotation, the paragraph number [§NN]. The entire unit has only one parenthetical annotation, which identifies the source of a citation and records no variant. No variant form of the same word occurs either. No finding is recorded as none: the base column itself contains no record of a variant reading.

Boundary of the scan　This survey reaches only the single surface of the base column; collation against other witnesses lies outside its scope, and this apparatus does not determine such readings independently.

IV. The Commentator’s Citations

Each self-citation by the author is attached to a paragraph-number anchor. A source is recorded only when the body identifies it itself; no source is determined independently.

Number of citation formulas, measured in this column　The only citation labels are one occurrence of vibhaṅge and one of aṭṭhakathāyaṃ; the body identifies one source in a parenthetical annotation, containing one source item (vibha. 1). The referential formula vuttanayeneva (“by the method stated”) occurs four times. These counts apply only within this unit, not to the work as a whole.

One observation on the order of citation　The citation in this unit occupies a different position from that in the compassion unit. The compassion unit first cites the canonical passage and then determines its object; this unit first establishes the intimate friend as object and only then uses Imameva hi atthavasaṃ paṭicca (“precisely with reference to this meaning”) to cite the canonical passage as evidence. The fact is recorded without adjudication.

V. Similes and Rhetoric

This heading records only where the unit’s similes occur and what they illustrate; it offers no literary evaluation.

A. Simile　This unit establishes no simile of its own: viya and its enclitic forms have zero occurrences, making this the only one of the chapter’s five units with none. Only the quoted canonical passage carries the formula Seyyathāpi (one occurrence); its comparison is simply “seeing a dear and pleasing person,” not a simile created by this unit.

B. List of objects　Instead of a simile, the unit gives a concrete picture, verbatim as hatthikkhandhaassapiṭṭhisuvaṇṇasivikādīhi vicarissatī—traveling upon an elephant’s back, a horse’s back, or in a golden palanquin. This is the object taken as a future appearance of joy. Its location is recorded without evaluation.

C. Verifiable observations on rhetoric　First, this unit has the same form as the compassion unit: it explains what differs and refers to what is shared through vuttanayeneva (four occurrences). Only two matters are explained in detail—the distinction that a dear person is not the proximate cause merely by being dear, and the allowance of past and future appearances of joy. Second, Seyyathāpi occurs once, within the quoted canonical passage. Third, both abbreviations and verses have zero occurrences, and there are no indented lines. Fourth, the lowercase form muditā occurs eleven times and mettā three times; every occurrence of the latter is in a referential phrase. Fifth, this unit occupies 2,141 bytes, the fourth largest of the chapter’s five units. Combined with the equanimity unit (1,481 bytes), it is still not twice the length of the compassion unit (3,514 bytes). All these counts were measured only within this unit and make no claim about the work as a whole.

VI. Intratextual Cross-Reading

Each connection carries a paragraph-number anchor. The place identified is based only on terms verifiable in the text of this unit. The mapping between this unit’s paragraph numbers and the chapter-and-section system is unknown, so the places referred to carry no chapter-and-section loci, and none are estimated or converted. No identification is made independently.

VII. Transmission

This edition establishes no position in the apparatus on questions of authorship, transmission, or commentarial lineage.