The Sanskrit term Apahṛtabhāra can be transliterated into English as Apahrtabhara or Apahritabhara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Apahṛtabhāra (अपहृतभार) is a title given to the Bhikṣus that accompanied the Buddha when he went to Gṛdhrakūṭaparvata at Rājagṛha according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter VI). Accordingly, “They had set down the burden but were capable of carrying it”. The five aggregates (skandha) are heavy (dauṣṭhūla) and bothersome; that is why they are called burden (bhāra). Thus the Buddha said: “What is the burden? The five skandhas are the burden.” The Arhats are said to be Apahṛtabhāra because they have set down this burden.”

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Apahṛtabhāra (अपहृतभार).—adj. (= Pali ohita-bh°; so also in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], see s.v., but not in the passages cited [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] s.v. ohita, which quotes Lalitavistara apahṛta as apahita; Pali also panna-bh°), having laid aside one's burden(s), in Pali said of arahats, and so of arhants in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 1.7; also of Buddha, Lalitavistara 425.20; of śrāvakas, Mahāvyutpatti 1084 (and ohita° of Bodhi- sattvas). Probably ohita- in this [compound] in Pali (and in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit]) historically represents apahṛta, removed (so Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti khur bor ba, having laid off the burden); ava-dhā does not have this meaning in either Sanskrit or Pali, and apa- dhā is exclusively Rigvedic and rare even there.

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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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Partial matches: Apahrita, Bhara.

Full-text: Ohitabhara.

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