Adhipateyata, Ādhipateyatā: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryĀdhipateyatā (आधिपतेयता).—(ādhipateya-tā) (from prec.), (1) state of overlordship or control; (2) at the end of [bahuvrīhi] cpds. ending in °teya-, state of being under the control of… (lit. state of having …as controlling influence); (1) Lalitavistara 204.(17—)18 (pūrvaṃ mayā svayaṃbhuvām) ādhipateyatām abhilaṣatā, of old by me (Buddha) desiring supremacy over (first place among) Self-existent Ones; Lalitavistara 179.20—21 -puṇyasaṃbhārabala- viśeṣaṇāsadṛśī- (better would seem to be °sadṛśīṃ, which [Page095-b+ 71] is read by Calcutta (see LV.) but none of Lefm.'s mss.) -lokādhipate- yatāṃ saṃdarśya, (said of the Bodhisattva) manifesting an unexampled state of mastery over the world thru…; (2) Gaṇḍavyūha 17.25 buddhādhipateyatāṃ, state of being under the control of the Buddhas; 68.18 supratiṣṭhitasya bhikṣor maitryādhipateyatayā, …because he is under the influence of love; Kāśyapa Parivarta 99.6—7 cittam…rājasadṛśaṃ sarvadharmā- dhipateyatayā (so read for text °pateyā, uninterpretable), (in a passage decrying the vanity of cittam,) citta is like a king, because it is controlled by all the states of (conditioned, transitory) existence; at least, this meaning seems more con- sistent with the context than because it is the ruler of all states…, but this latter is what Tibetan means (chos thams cad la dbaṅ byed paḥi phyir); in that case to 1.
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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