Adhyacara, Āḍhyacara, Adhya-cara: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryĀḍhyacara (आढ्यचर).—a.
-rī f.) [भूतपूर्व आढ्यः चरट् (bhūtapūrva āḍhyaḥ caraṭ)] once opulent.
Āḍhyacara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms āḍhya and cara (चर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAdhyācara (अध्याचर).—[, °rā: Lalitavistara 395.9, see adhyāvara.]
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Adhyācāra (अध्याचार).—m. (to prec.; = Pali ajjhācāra, regularly in bad and ‘especially in an erotical sense’, Critical Pali Dictionary), per- formance, commission (of evil, sin), (sinful) behavior (with gen. of the sin, or in composition): punar anadhyācārāya Bodhisattvabhūmi 181.12, so as not to sin again; sāvadyasya ca dānādikasya kuśalasyādhyācāraḥ 289.11; āpatty-anadhyācāra-289.22; anadhyācāre adhyācāravairamaṇyāṃ tīvraś…yogaḥ karaṇīyaḥ Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 27b.4, serious discipline in not sinning, ceasing from sin, must be undertaken; for this, which seems the correct reading, Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 24b.5; 28a.1, 4; 28b.2 (by error?) °anadhyācāravairamaṇyāṃ°; but also in Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.8.10 anadhyācāram ācarate, engages in sinful behavior, implies adhyācāra = good behavior; Tibetan also has a neg., spyad par bya ba ma yin pa spyod pa; but the text is pretty surely wrong, since in 9.10 the opposite is na adhyā- cāram ācarate, engages in no sinful behavior.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryĀḍhyacara (आढ्यचर).—mfn.
(-raḥ-rī-raṃ) Formerly opulent. E. āḍhya and caraṭ aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Adhyācāra (अध्याचार):—[=adhy-ācāra] [from adhyā-car] m. reach, range, [Pāraskara-gṛhya-sūtra]
2) Āḍhyacara (आढ्यचर):—[=āḍhya-cara] [from āḍhya] mfn. once opulent, [Pāṇini 5-3, 53 [Scholiast or Commentator]]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryĀḍhyacara (आढ्यचर):—[āḍhya-cara] (raḥ-rī-raṃ) a. Once opulent.
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Partial matches: Adhya, Cara, Acara.
Starts with: Adhyacarana, Adhyacarati.
Ends with: Anadhyacara.
Full-text: Vairamani, Anadhyacara, Carad, Adhyacarati, Nidana, Cara.
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