Cakravada, Cakravāḍa, Cakra-vada: 11 definitions

Introduction
In Buddhism
Languages
1. Sanskrit
2. Kannada
See also

Introduction:

Cakravada means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Alternative spellings of this word include Chakravada.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड) is the name of a mountain, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “[...] Save for those who were sitting in the pavilion in the sky, the rest of them in the great three-thousand of worlds, staying on the surface of the earth, as far as its foundations, thought that they disappeared. The king of the mountain (parvatarāja), Mount Sumeru, Mount Cakravāḍa, and Mount Mahācakravāḍa disappeared from the sight of living beings. Villages, towns, market-towns, royal cities, capitals disappeared as well. However, with the lion’s throne (simhāsana) of the Lord it was another matter, they perceived it as shining ten thousand yojanas high as placed in these pavilions placed in the vault of the sky”.

context information

Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: MDPI Books: The Ocean of Heroes

Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड) refers to the “ring of mountains”, according to the 10th-century Ḍākārṇava-tantra: one of the last Tibetan Tantric scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition consisting of 51 chapters.—Accordingly, [while describing the Adamantine Circle (vajracakra)]: “[...] [On each realm], there are thirty-six [couples of heroes and Yoginīs] in total; [it] consists in all merits and is powerful. In this way, [every] realm has the nature of the heroes and Yoginīs. In [all circles inside] the ring of mountains (cakravāḍa), classes of birth of sentient beings are to be generated in order; they are again divided into thirty-six [and arranged] in the respective places [on each circle] in order. The Adamantine Circle, the first, is thus [taught]. [...]”.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

General definition (in Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Dharma-samgraha

Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड) refers to the “two mountain ranges” as defined in the Dharma-saṃgraha (section 124):

cakravāḍa (the mountain range),
mahācakravāḍa (the great mountain range).

The Dharma-samgraha (Dharmasangraha) is an extensive glossary of Buddhist technical terms in Sanskrit (e.g., cakravāḍa). The work is attributed to Nagarjuna who lived around the 2nd century A.D.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड).—

1) a ring, circle.

2) a collection, group, multitude, mass; कैरव- चक्रवालम् (kairava- cakravālam) Bhartṛhari 2.74; प्रकटयसि कुमुच्चैरर्चिषां चक्रवालं (prakaṭayasi kumuccairarciṣāṃ cakravālaṃ) Rati.4.16; Mv.6.4; Mu.3.21.; K.126,178.

3) horizon. (-laḥ) 1 a mythical range of mountains supposed to encircle the orb of the earth like a wall and to be the limit of light and darkness.

2) the ruddy goose.

Derivable forms: cakravāḍam (चक्रवाडम्).

Cakravāḍa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms cakra and vāḍa (वाड). See also (synonyms): cakrabāla, cakrabāḍa, cakravāla.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड).—regularly m. (nt. forms rare; = Sanskrit °vāla, Pali cakkavāḷa), name of a mountain or rather mountain- range, supposed to surround the earth: sometimes sg., Mahāvyutpatti 4149 °ḍaḥ; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 363.5; Daśabhūmikasūtra 96.4; Mahāvastu ii.332.2 śailo… °ḍo; more often pl.; often followed by mahācakravāḍa, especially in [compound] (dual dvandva Kāraṇḍavvūha 91.11—12; Dharmasaṃgraha 124), oftener pl., or in longer cpds. where both have stem form, or both sg. (Mahāvyutpatti 4149, 4150), Lalitavistara 150.1; 277.9; Mahāvastu i.6.1; ii.300.17; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 244.11; Śikṣāsamuccaya 246.2; Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 86.7; Sukhāvatīvyūha 36.14—15; 63.3; without mahācak°, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 355.5 (pl.); Lalitavistara 316.13 (pl.); Mahāvastu ii.341.10 (stem in [compound]); Śamādh 19.19 (verse, text cakravāḍa, meter requires cakravăḍo or °ḍā); in fig. use, (puṇya-)cakravāḍaṃ loke parisaṃsthāpayiṣyati Gaṇḍavyūha 112.22.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड).—m.

(-ḍaḥ) See cakravāla. cakramiva vāḍate veṣṭayati vāḍa-ac .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड):—[=cakra-vāḍa] [from cakra] m. fire, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]

2) [v.s. ...] the mountain-range Cakra-vāla, [Kāraṇḍa-vyūha xxiii]

3) [v.s. ...] n. ‘a circle’, or ‘a troop, multitude’ [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Cakravāḍa (चक्रवाड):—[cakra-vāḍa] (ḍaḥ) 1. m. A hurricane.

[Sanskrit to German]

Cakravada in German

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Cakravāḍa (ಚಕ್ರವಾಡ):—

1) [noun] a plain figure bound by a single, circular line; a circle.

2) [noun] the line where the sky seems to meet the earth; the horizon.

3) [noun] a heap of things; a pile.

4) [noun] a range of mountains, supposed to be surrounding the earth.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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