Anavaragra, Anavarāgra: 4 definitions
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Anavaragra means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the GaganagañjaparipṛcchāAnavarāgra (अनवराग्र) refers to “beginningless until endless time”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Then the Bodhisattva Gaganagañja, having praised the Lord with these verses, addressed himself to the Lord: ‘[...] The Lord, having become the king of doctors (vaidyarāja), establishes the way into the state without disease (vyādhi) or death (maraṇa) for [living beings] who are involved with this world covered with desire, defilement, and obstruction (āvaraṇa) from beginningless until endless time (anavarāgra). The Lord, having had power and vitality, is skilled in the knowledge if what is proper and what is improper, and has obtained the three knowledges (trividya). [...]”.
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.
General definition (in Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Dharma-samgrahaAnavarāgra (अनवराग्र) or anavarāgraśūnyatā refers to “emptiness of the extremes” one of the “twenty emptinesses” (śūnyatā) as defined in the Dharma-saṃgraha (section 41). The Dharma-samgraha (Dharmasangraha) is an extensive glossary of Buddhist technical terms in Sanskrit (e.g., anavarāgra). The work is attributed to Nagarjuna who lived around the 2nd century A.D.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAnavarāgra (अनवराग्र).—adj. (corresp. to Pali anamatagga, AMg. aṇavadagga, aṇavayagga, and probably hyper-Sanskrit for the latter; see Critical Pali Dictionary for theories about this doubtful word), probably understood as without end or beginning; Tibetan thog ma daṅ tha ma med pa, interpreted Critical Pali Dictionary as without top and bottom, but it may, and probably does, mean without beginning and end; commonly epithet of saṃsāra and its constituents: °grasmiṃ saṃsāre Mahāvastu i.282.6; ii.94.1; 188.13; 237.9; iii.26.10; 90.2; °gro saṃsāro Divyāvadāna 197.15; °gre jātisaṃsāre Śikṣāsamuccaya 170.2; mayā 'navarāgrasya jātijarāmara- ṇaduḥkhasyāntaḥ kṛta iti Lalitavistara 351.17; 377.3, 6; anavarāgra- jātijarāmaraṇa-saṃsāra- Mahāvastu i.34.7; in Mahāvastu ii.419.7 mss. anavarāgre (as subst.? Senart em. °gra-, perhaps rightly) jātijarāmaraṇasaṃsāra-; as separate adj. with similar cpds. Mahāvastu iii.67.10; 281.6; [compound] with śūnyatā, Mahāvyutpatti 943; Dharmasaṃgraha 41.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnavarāgra (अनवराग्र):—[=an-avarāgra] mfn. without beginning or end (?), [Divyāvadāna]
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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The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
Chapter XII - The Jātaka of Śiri < [Volume II]
Chapter IV(a) - The story of Abhiya < [Volume I]
Chapter IX(a) - The Five Hundred Merchants (prose) < [Volume III]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
IV. The emptinesses (śūnyatā) in the great Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras < [Note on emptiness (śūnyatā)]
Emptiness 10: Emptiness of dharmas without beginning (anagraśūnyatā) < [Chapter XLVIII - The Eighteen Emptinesses]
Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
Chapter XXII - On Pure Actions (b) < [Section Four]
The Tattvasangraha [with commentary] (by Ganganatha Jha)