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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Ādhipateya (आधिपतेय).—nt. (anomalously m. Mahāvyutpatti 7192 °yaḥ = Tibetan bdaṅ du ḥgyur ba (or bya ba), so also Mironov; = Pali ādhipateyya, see below; from adhipati, roughly = Sanskrit ādhipatya, which is used in Abhidharmakośa, see Index, in ways not closely parallel to the Pali usage), control, influence, mastery, prime motivation (lit. overlordship). In Pali especially used of one of three influences leading to virtue, attādhi° (q.v. Critical Pali Dictionary), lokādhi°, dhammādhi°, see Childers s.v. ādhipateyya and Vism. i.14.1 ff. (the influence of oneself, i.e. conscience or self-respect; the influence of the world or public opinion; the influence of dhamma or regard for moral principles as authoritatively laid down). In [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] little evidence is found for the existence of these, tho Speyer (Transl. 114) renders Jātakamālā 80.14 (hrīvarṇa- pratisaṃyukteṣu) lokādhipateyeṣu ca (sc. upaneyam) by …the regard of public opinion, perhaps rightly. On the other hand, lokādhipateya-prāpta Lalitavistara 425.5 can only mean arrived at the overlordship of the world; it is one of a long list of epithets of the Buddha as the one that has ‘turned the wheel of the Law’; it is preceded by lokagurur …lokārthakara…lokānuvartaka…lokavid ity ucyate, and it would be absurd to interpret it as under the control of public opinion. (See also Lalitavistara 179.20—21 s.v. ādhipate- yatā.) Mahāvastu i.16.12 = 18.5, 15 = 19.5 = 20.10 (evaṃ khalu) punaḥ ādhipateya-mātram etaṃ tatropatteḥ, but this, of course, is only the principal cause (controlling influence) of rebirth there (viz. in one of various hells); Gaṇḍavyūha 19.8 na tad balaṃ na tad ādhipateyaṃ…(saṃvidyate), that (sort of) power or controlling influence (is not found); oftener at the end of [bahuvrīhi] cpds., Śikṣāsamuccaya 117.3 mahākaruṇ- ādhipateyaṃ, (any action of Bodhisattvas is…) controlled (influenced) by supreme compassion; Śikṣāsamuccaya 250.5 cakṣurin- driyādhipateyā rūpārambaṇaprativijñaptiḥ, recognition of the sense-object form, which (recognition) is controlled by (= dependent on) the sense of sight; Daśabhūmikasūtra 11.20 (tac cittam utpadyate bodhisattvānāṃ) mahākaruṇāpūrvamgamaṃ prajñājñānādhipateyaṃ…; Śikṣāsamuccaya 322.15 dharmādhipateya, of Buddhas. See next.

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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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Starts with: Adhipateyata.

Ends with: Lokadhipateya.

Full-text: Prativijnapti, Adhipati, Pratisamyukta, Adhipateyata, Dhatu.

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