Visuddhimagga XII-24

371. ‘‘So pakativaṇṇaṃ vijahitvā kumārakavaṇṇaṃ vā dasseti nāgavaṇṇaṃ vā…pe… vividhampi senābyūhaṃ dassetī’’ti (paṭi. ma. 3.13) evaṃ āgatā iddhi pakativaṇṇavijahanavikāravasena pavattattā vikubbanā iddhi nāma.

（二）（变化神变）他隐去本来的形态而显现童子的形态，或现为龙……乃至种种军队的形态，像这样所说的神变，是隐去本来的形态而变化起来的，故名「变化神变」。[PTS 379]

Ñ(XII,24): (ii) That given as follows, 'Having abandoned his normal form, he shows [himself in] the form of a boy or the form of a serpent … or he shows a manifold military array' (Ps.ii,210), is called success as transformation because of the abandoning and alteration of the normal form. [379]



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