rASi
rāśi , m. , group, collection ; ( 1 ) (= Pali rāsi) applied to three groups or categories of (human) beings , called mithyātva-(or mithyatva-)-niyata, samyaktva-ni°, and aniyata, respectively (= Pali micchatta-niyata, sammatta-ni°, ani°); Childers , PTSD , and Senart Mv i.517 (on 175.13—16 ) all wrongly apply the term to views or behavior instead of creatures . Very clear is LV 400.2 : trīn sattvarāśīn, ekaṃ mithyatvaniyatam, ekaṃ samyaktvaniyatam, ekam aniyatam; it is then explained that the first is fixed in falsity , permanently unable to know the doctrine; the second in truth (they will learn the doctrine whether a Buddha preaches it to them or not); while the third is undetermined (they will learn the doctrine if they hear it preached, not otherwise); substantially the same is said in Mv iii.318.5 (reading mithyātva°); in Mv i.175.13—16 ( vss ), the group fixed in falsehood (mithyātvaniyato rāśiḥ) will fill up the undetermined group (aniyataṃ rāśiṃ) on Buddhaʼs appearance, and the aniyato rāśiḥ will fill up the rāśiṃ samyak (= samyaktva-niyataṃ rāśiṃ); similarly Mv iii.347.4 ff. ; saṃvarṇitaḥ samyaktvaniyato rāśir vivarṇito mithyātva-ni° rāśiḥ parigṛhīto ( embraced, brought into the fold ) 'niyata-rāśir LV 351.9 ; in Mv i.316.17 read mithyatva-niyato rāśi(ṃ ? n. sg. ) for corrupt mss. nityatva-; [Page455-a] samyaktva-niyata-rāśiḥ, mithyātva°, aniyata-r° Mvy 1737—39 ; mithyātva° also Mvy 6830 ; sattva-rāśīnāṃ samyaktvaniyata-tāṃ ca, mithyātva-niyatatāṃ ca, ubhayatvāniyatatāṃ ca yathābhūtaṃ prajānāti Dbh 76.1 ; the aniyata and mithyātvaniyata rāśi do not exist in Sukhāvatī, Sukh 44.15 f. (in 14 the people there are called niyatāḥ samyaktve); the 3 rāśi listed (with spelling mithyatva-) Hoernle MR 21.1 (from Saṃgīti Sūtra); ( 2 ) there are also three rāśi, groups , of dharmas which are abhisaṃbuddha by a Tathāgata: Bbh 404.23 , defined 24 ff. as arthopasaṃhitā dharmāḥ, anarthopasaṃhitāḥ, and naivārthopasaṃhitā nānarthopasaṃhitāḥ.