Pharati: 3 definitions

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Pali-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Pharati in Pali glossary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

pharati : (phar + a) pervades; suffuses; fills.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Pharati, (sphur & sphar, same root as in Gr. spaiρw to twitch; Lat. sperno “spurn” lit. kick away; Ags. speornan to kick; spurnan=spur) 1. (trs.) to pervade, permeate, fill, suffuse Pv. I, 1014 (=vyāpetvā tiṭṭhati PvA. 52); J. III, 371 (sakala-sarīraṃ); V, 64 (C. for pavāti); PvA. 14 (okāsaṃ), 276 (obhāsaṃ). To excite or stimulate the nerves J. V, 293 (rasa-haraṇiyo khobhetvā phari: see under rasa).—Often in standard phrase mettā-sahagatena cetasā ekaṃ (dutiyaṃ etc.) disaṃ pharitvā viharati D. II, 186; S. V, 115 and passim, where pharitvā at Vism. 308=VbhA. 377 is expld by phusitvā ārammaṇaṃ katvā. Cp. BSk. ekaṃ disāṃ spharitvopasampadya viharati MVastu III, 213. Also in phrase pītiyā sarīraṃ pharati (aor. phari) to thrill the body with rapture, e.g. J. I, 33; V, 494; DhA. II, 118; IV, 102.—2. (in this meaning better to be derived from sphar to spread, expand, cp. pharita & phālita) to spread, make expand J. I, 82 (metta-cittaṃ phari).—3. (prob. of quite a diff. origin and only taken to pharati by pop. analogy, perhaps to phal=sphaṭ to split; thus kaṭṭh’atthaṃ pharati=to be split up for fuel) to serve as, only with °atthaṃ in phrases āhāratthaṃ ph. (after next phrase) to serve as food Miln. 152; kaṭṭhatthaṃ ph. to serve as fuel A. II, 95=S. III, 93=It. 90=J. I, 482; khādaniyatthaṃ & bhojaniyatthaṃ ph. to serve as eatables Vin. I, 201 (so to be read in preference to °attaṃ).—pp. pharita, phurita & phuṭa; cp. also phuṭṭha; see further anu°, pari°. (Page 476)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Pharati (फरति).—(= Pali id.; see also phalati, spharati, [Page395-1b+ 19] sphurati), pervades, fills, especially with radiance, or with love or the like: (in Mahāvastu iii.124.15 mss. phalitvā, Senart em. phar-;) in Mahāvastu iii.374.11, 16 Senart rightly em. pharetha (16 pharema) for mss. har° kāyaṃ vipulāya prītaye (16 prītiyā); Pali uses pharati with kāyaṃ or synonym as object; thrill the body with great joy; pharitva (v.l. spha- litva; Lefm. em. sphar°) Lalitavistara 116.15 (verse; amṛtodakena); in Gaṇḍavyūha 230.14 (verse) read kāya (text 'pāya, at beginning of a line!) pharitva; pharanti Gaṇḍavyūha 236.6; pharitvā 236.8; °tva 240.24; phari (aor.) 240.25, et alibi, in verses of Gaṇḍavyūha.

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Pharati (फरति) or Phalati.—q.v.: phalī (3 pl. aor.) Mahāvastu ii.349.17 (verse), see s.v. akṣamātra; tam enaṃ (read ena, m.c.) jñānena phalitva (mss. °tvā; Senart em. pharitva) iii.124.15 (verse).

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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.

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