kuSalapuRya
kuśalapuṇya , meritorious deed of virtue , in Mv i.81.1—2 contrasted with kuśalamūla, but whether the former marks a higher, more developed stage of religious advancement than the latter (as Senart seems to believe), is not clear to me: (ye punar …) bodhisattvā avaivartikatāyai pariṇāmenti, kin tu khalu teṣām upacita-kuśalapuṇyānāṃ prathamā praṇidhir utpadyati, āho svid upacita-kuśalamūlānām iti. The reply, in vss , first says that worship of Buddhas etc. does not suffice. Then ( 81.16 ) te yadā vipula-puṇya-saṃcayā, bhonti bhāvita-śarīramānasāḥ; te … bodhaye upajanenti mānasaṃ; yaṃ mayā kuśalamūlam arjitaṃ, tena me bhavatu sarvadarśitā; … ( 82.3 ) yaś ca me kuśalamūla-saṃcayo, so mahā bhavatu sarvaprāṇibhiḥ … Is puṇya of 81.16 something else than kuśala-puṇya of 81.1—2 ? Both it and kuśala-mūla seem, as far as I can tell, to have the same effect in the verses; no clear answer to the question in the prose has been discovered by me.