deSanApAWa
deśanā-pāṭha ( m. ), sermon-reading, verbal instruction or text ; acc. to Suzuki , always depreciative in Laṅk ; so (thinks S. ) °ṭha-kathāṃ Laṅk 12.17 contrasting with tathāgatapratyātmagocarakathāṃ 16; I am not sure that I understand this passage, but deśanāpāṭhābhiratānāṃ [Page272-a] sattvānāṃ 14.2 is certainly depreciative; as to deśanāpāṭhe 16.12 , I am again uncertain; yāni deśanāpāṭhe ( Suzuki , canonical texts ) 'nusaṃvarṇitāny ānantaryāṇi 139.9 , these are among the ‘external’ (bāhyāni, 139.6 ) acts-of-immediate-fruition ; in 222.19 etad eva … mayā Śrīmālāṃ devīm adhikṛtya deśanāpāṭhe …, there seems nothing depreciative, even in Suzuki ʼs rendering, this … was told by me in the canonical text relating to Queen Śrīmālā ( viz. , the Śrīmālāsiṃhanāda-sūtra? ).