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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य) refers to “(one who is) unmoving”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “[...] The Bodhisattva Gaganagañja then sustained the jewel-canopy of ten thousand yojanas high over the Lord’s lion throne in the sky, joined the palms of his hands, saluted, and praised the Lord with these suitable verses: ‘(1) He who excels in religious teachings and its purpose (dharmārtha), qualities (guṇa), and knowledge (jñāna), who is complete pure, impeccable, pure from his origin, and stainless, who is placed anywhere (apratiṣṭhita) like space (gaganasama) and unmoving (aniñjya), who is of extreme depth (gambhīra) and beyond any range, I bow to him. [...]’”.

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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

Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य) or Aniñja.—q.v.: sthito 'niñja-prāptena (but Kashgar recension 'niñjya°) ca cittena Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 5.10; in Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā this is the spelling regularly found in ed., e.g. aniñjo nāma samādhiḥ 1418.22.

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Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य).—: variants āniñja, an°, āniñjya, ānijya, āneñj(y)a, an°, qq.v. The nasalless ānijya occurs without v.l. only once and may be an accidental corruption (anusvāra omitted); but see § 2.73. The omission of y after j is called ‘une orthographe prâcritisante’ by Senart, Mahāvastu i.399; at any rate it occurs frequently in the mss. In Pali the same word is written ānejja, ānañja, āneñja, and with short initial a- (stigmatized as wrong reading in Critical Pali Dictionary); forms with i in the penult are very rare in Pali, but Critical Pali Dictionary records aniñja-ppatta once; this surely cannot be separated from the common āneñja- (ānejja-, ānañja-)- ppatta. [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] has no ānañj- or ānejj-, which are not in- frequent in Pali. The wild variety of spellings in Pali itself shows that it early became an obscure word in the tradition. [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] occurrences of the spelling aniñjya include Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 161.10; Mahāvyutpatti 554, Śikṣāsamuccaya 237.1 (and 223.3, 4 in the ms.); perhaps Mahāvastu i.133.13 (Senart āniñjya, em., mss. mostly anīca [not low?], one aniṃca, perhaps intending aniñj[y]a); either an- or ān- (uncertain because of saṃdhi) Mahāvastu i.228.11, 15; 229.6; ii.132.15 (here v.l. °nijya-). For examples of the other spellings see s.vv. There seems to be no difference [Page024-b+ 71] in meaning between the various spellings; any of them may be an adj., immobile, immovable, or a nt. n., immovability. As adj., āniṃjehi vihārehi Mahāvastu i.34.11; ii.419.11, in im- movable conditions; epithet of citta Mahāvastu i.133.13 (see above on form); oftener °niñjyaprāpta, of citta, Lalitavistara 344.6; Mahāvastu i.228.11, 15; 229.6; ii.132.15; aniñja-prāpta, of citta, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 5.10; aniñjya-bhūta, of citta, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 161.10; ānijyāṃ śāntim Avadāna-śataka ii.199.5; aniñjyo (Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā aniñjo) nāma samādhiḥ Mahāvyutpatti 554; Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 1418.22; virajasko (a)neñjyaś ca (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 476.14; clearly noun, āniñjyam Mahāvyutpatti 6387 = Tibetan mi gyo ba, not moving; doubtless noun also in cpds. with -prāpta (Pali -ppatta) and -bhūta, above; apparently primarily adj. as third of a triad, the first two members of which are puṇya and apuṇya, or kuśala and akuśala; all three are applied to deeds (karman), or the performance or accumulation thereof (abhisaṃskāra, q.v.), or the under- lying conditions (saṃskāra; compare Śālistambasūtra 81.5, abhisaṃskārār- thena saṃskārāḥ), or finally the states of existence (dharmāḥ) to which such various acts lead as fruit. The first two, meritorious and demeritorious, relate to good and bad deeds as leading to rebirth in the kāmāvacara and (only good deeds) in the rūpāvacara states, or to these resulting states; the word aniñj(y)a, aneñj(y)a, or ā°, refers to deeds leading to rebirth in the arūpāvacara states, or to those states themselves (the dhyāna states), compare Bodhisattvabhūmi 90.16 āniñjya-caturtha-dhyāna-vihāraḥ; on the subject in Pali see Warren, B. in Tr. 179 f. (from Vism.), and in general La Vallée-Poussin, note on Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā 334.8; a good Pali passage is Dīghanikāya (Pali) iii.217.25 tayo saṃkhārā, puññābhisaṃ- khāro, apuññā°, ānañjā° (see Comm. iii.998.29). In [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], Śālistambasūtra 82.3—4 (cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 222.11—223.1) evam avidyāyāṃ satyāṃ trividhāḥ saṃskārā abhinivartante, puṇyopagā apuṇyo° āneñjyo° (Śikṣāsamuccaya āniñjyo°); Daśabhūmikasūtra 48.7 puṇyā- puṇyāneñjyān abhisaṃskārān; karmāṇi kuśalākuśalāneñ- jāni Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā 334.7-8 (compare 543.1 with note); (dharmāḥ) kuśalā vā 'kuśalā vā aniñjyā vā Śikṣāsamuccaya 237.1.

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Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य) or Aneñjya.—q.v.; adj.: (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 476.14 virajasko [a]neñjyaś ca (meter requires the a- which is elided in writ- ing); a- or ā- (uncertain because of saṃdhi) Daśabhūmikasūtra 48.7 puṇyāpuṇyāneñjyān abhisaṃskārān; and mss. at Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā 543.1 kuśalākuśalāneñjyādi-.

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Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य) or Ānijya.—q.v.: adj., Avadāna-śataka ii.199.5 ānijyāṃ śāntiṃ; in Mahāvastu ii.132.15 there is a v.l. anijya- or ān- for °niñjya-of text.

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Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य) or Āniñja.—q.v. (Mahāvastu i.34.11; ii.419.11).

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Āniñjya (आनिञ्ज्य).—q.v.

Āniñjya can also be spelled as Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य).

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Aniñjya (अनिञ्ज्य) or Āneñjya.—q.v.: Śālistambasūtra 82.4, 7 °jyopaga (of saṃskāras; cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 223.1 as āniñjy°, 3 and 4 as aniñjy° in ms.); see under aneñjya for cases where saṃdhi makes initial quantity obscure.

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

Āniñjya (आनिञ्ज्य):—n. ([from] an with √iñj), immovableness.

[Sanskrit to German]

Aninjya in German

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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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