Abhimanika, Abhimānika: 3 definitions
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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita SastraAbhimānika (अभिमानिक) refers to a “fool”, according to the Wou chang yi king (T 669, k. 1, p. 471b8–10); Cf. the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 32-34.—Accordingly, as the Buddha says to Ānanda: “He who produces the view of emptiness, I declare him to be incurable. If a person is attached to a view of the self as high as Sumeru, I am not surprised by that and I do not condemn him. But if a fool (abhimānika) is attached to a view of emptiness as minute as the sixtieth part of a single hair, that I cannot allow”.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAbhimānika (अभिमानिक).—adj. (from Sanskrit and Pali abhimāna, in two different mgs.; compare ābhi°), (1) proud, conceited: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 380.1 (prose); Kāśyapa Parivarta 118.2 (prose), 5 (verse); Mahāvyutpatti 2446; (2) holding an erroneous view: Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 146.13 (could be inter- preted as ābhi°) nāsty-asti-tvābhimānikasya.
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Abhimānikā (अभिमानिका).—(compare Sanskrit and Pali °māna), pride: Gaṇḍavyūha 527.10 jāty-abhimānikā-nirabhimānatāyai, to make prideless their pride of birth.
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Ābhimānika (आभिमानिक).—adj. (= abhi° 1; once in Sanskrit in different meaning, [Boehtlingk] 7.318), proud: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 38.12 and 39.4 (prose; both times v.l. ādhi° or adhi°); 43.13 (prose, no v.l.); Śikṣāsamuccaya 126.8 (prose) °ka-vyākaraṇa-vacanā; Kāśyapa Parivarta 1.6 (prose) °kaś ca bhavaty ātmotkarṣī.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryĀbhimānika (आभिमानिक):—mfn. (in Sāṃkhya [philosophy]) belonging to Abhi-māna or self-conceit.
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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