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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Adhimukta (अधिमुक्त) refers to “good faithful people”, according to  the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 40.—Accordingly: The Buddha utters the lion’s roar. He is like the king of the lions (siṃharāja). [...] The Buddha-lion is very similar. [...] He terrifies the heretics, the scholars and the heterodox. He awakens to the four truths those who have been sleeping. He humbles the pride and haughtiness of those who are attached to the five aggregates as their self. He opens the way through the theories and wrong views of the heretics. Bad people are afraid and good faithful people (adhimukta) rejoice. [...]

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Adhimukta (अधिमुक्त).—(Pali adhimutta), ppp. of adhimucyate, (1) zealous about, actively interested in or devoted to (a) non- religious objects (loc., or in cpds.): yathādhimuktavāṇijāṃ Mahāvastu iii.289.12, referring to 15 ff. tatra ye rūpādhimuktā vāṇijā (the merchants whose interests were centered in forms, i.e. the objects of sight) te rūpehi lobhitā, ye śabdā- dhimuktā vāṇijā te manojñagītavāditaśabdehi lobhitā (etc., with other objects of sense); kimadhimuktā jaṭilā? jaṭilā khalu jaṭilādhimuktā Mahāvastu iii.424.4, what do jaṭila-ascetics [Page014-a+ 71] like? They like jaṭila-ascetics, of course (with this thought Buddha surrounds himself with 1000 magically created jaṭila-ascetics and visits the jaṭila Uruvilvā-Kāśyapa); the family into which a Bodhisattva must be born in his last existence must be kriyādhimuktaṃ…tyāgādhimuk- taṃ fond of activity, of liberality Lalitavistara 24.5—6; Mahāvastu i.198.3; ii.1.13 (Lalitavistara adds dānādhimuktaṃ; Mahāvastu i.198.3 adds vratā- dhimuktaṃ); (b) religious objects (with loc., or perhaps acc.): devā ca namasyanti yo yādṛśam asmiṃ adhimukto Mahāvastu iii.77.19 (read with ms. B), and they worship the gods, whosoever which (god), being devoted to him; śūnyatam adhimukta-m (corr. adhimukta, probably so read, or take m as hiatus-bridger) ānimittaṃ (corr. °ttāṃ) vicarati Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 16.13 (verse), he lives with his mind centered on emptiness, causelessness; usually in cpds., -dharmādhimukta zealously devoted to dharma Mahāvyutpatti 854; śraddhādhi° Divyāvadāna 49.18 (= Pali saddhādhimutta, both of Vakkali); pravrajyādhi° Divyāvadāna 302.23 ff.; pradānādhi° Jātakamālā 23.6; -buddhadharmādhi° Samādhirājasūtra 19.3; often modifying sattva, creatures, yathā- dhimukta-sattva-, creatures according to their inclinations, Lalitavistara 35.8; creatures are often described as nānādhimukta, having inclinations towards various objects, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 71.8; 318.1; the Bodhisattva is śubhādhimukta, inclining towards ex- cellent things, Lalitavistara 141.8; common folk are hīnādhimukta Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 113.9; 114.4; or lūhādhimukta Lalitavistara 264.4 (of certain gods; misrendered by Foucaux devoted to (the Bodhisattva) in wretched condition, but it means having inclinations to petty things; these gods tried to persuade the Bodhisattva to let them restore his strength magically); Avadāna-śataka i.285.5 (of evil monks); (2) ppp. periphrastic, (was) changed magically, Divyāvadāna 393.18, see under adhimucyate (2).

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

1) Adhimukta (अधिमुक्त):—[=adhi-mukta] mfn. (√muc), inclined, propense, [Buddhist literature]

2) [v.s. ...] confident, [ib.]

3) [v.s. ...] also ‘intent on’, [Divyāvadāna]

4) [v.s. ...] m. a [particular] Samādhi, [Kāraṇḍa-vyūha]

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Adhi, Mukta.

Starts with: Adhimuktaka.

Ends with: Shraddhadhimukta.

Full-text: Adhimukti, Adhimuktika, Adhimoksha, Adhimutta, Adhimucyati, Adhimucyate, Lokasukha, Animitta, Muc.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

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VI. Literal commentary on the Vaiśāradyasūtra < [Part 1 - The four fearlessnesses of the Buddha according to the Abhidharma]

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