aBijYA
abhijñā (= Pali abhiññā), higher or supernatural knowledge; intuition ( CPD ). There are 5 or 6, in both Pali and BHS , agreeing in essence tho the order and precise forms of the names vary. In Dharmas 20 , five: divyacakṣus, divyaśrotra, paracittajñāna, pūrvanivāsānusmṛti, ṛddhi; in Mvy 201—209 six, same order, with variant forms, (parasya) cetaḥ- (citta-)- paryāya- ( q.v. )-jñāna, for the third; the sixth is āśravakṣayajñāna, as in Pali and elsewhere when 6 are named; the fifth is ṛddhividhijñāna in Mvy 208 ; SP 134.11 lists 5, practically as in Dharmas except that the fifth is ṛddhivimokṣakriyā, an unusual phrase, for which no v.l. is given in KN or WT ; Burnouf ( Lotus App. XIV, p. 821 ) cites his ms. as reading ṛddhisākṣātkriyā, which is much more plausible. Twenty abhijñā-karmāṇi are set forth in detail Mvy 210—230 . In Laṅk 292.13—16 the abhijñā, collectively, are classified as to their origin in four ways (in l. 16 read with Suzuki Transl. 242 n. 1 te 'bhijñā na vipākajāḥ). References to five abhijñā: SP 12.4 ; 141.9 ; 254.14 ; Mv i.284.3 ; ii.33.11 ; in ii.96.1 attributed to brahmanical, non-Buddhist ṛṣis ; Divy 321.3 ; Śikṣ 243.13 (read pañco, see p. 412, note ) etc. ; six , SP 90.7 ; 129.10 ; 150.2 ; 155.2 ; 255.4 ; 272.6 ; Mv iii.55.5 ff. ; Divy 399.27 , etc. ; note Mv i.165.12 where ‘by abhijñā’ (abhijñāye) the Buddha attains knowledge of the Doctrine taught of old by other Buddhas; this certainly does not mean memory , cf. s.v. abhijānāti , which is commonly but wrongly rendered remembers in similar contexts; mahābhijñā- SP 66.8 .