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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Apatrāpya (अपत्राप्य) refers to “modesty”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “[...] Ratnapāṇi said: ‘Son of good family, what are those sixteen dharmas included in?’ Gaganagañja said: ‘Son of good family, the sixteen dharmas are included in thirty-two dharmas. What are those thirty-two? To wit, (1) calmness is included in shame and modesty (apatrāpya); (2) gentleness is included in gentle words and being pleasant to stay with; (3) the absence of pride is included in the absence of contemptuousness and humility; (4) the absence of guile is included in the undefiled and no roughness; [...]’”.

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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

Apatrāpya (अपत्राप्य).—(once, Mahāvastu iii.53.1, °trapya, Senart, but v.l. contains -āpya-; if correct, short -a- must be MIndic in nature), nt. (= Pali ottappa, otappa; see under an- apa°, otrapa, an-o°, an-otrāpin), modesty, bashfulness, shame (rarely shame in the other sense which the word now commonly has in English; so Avadāna-śataka i.216.10; Śikṣāsamuccaya 12.1); Avadāna-śataka ii.167.4 (read °pya-parigṛhītaṃ as [compound]); almost always associated with its virtual synonym hrī, Mahāvastu iii.53.1 hrī cāpatrapyaṃ (compare above) ca; Mahāvyutpatti 1569 (fourth of the dhana, q.v., hrī being the third); and usually compounded with it, hry-apatrāpya- Lalitavistara 25.14; 27.2; 430.1; Gaṇḍavyūha 146.23; Daśabhūmikasūtra 13.18; 19.15, etc.; or hrīr-apatrāpya (q.v. for explanation of the form) Śikṣāsamuccaya 136.1 (prose; here as a reason for wearing a loin-cloth); 192.1; Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 89.3; Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 28.17 (read with ms. hrīr-apatrāpya-śīla-). Cf. also vyapatrāpya.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apatrāpya (अपत्राप्य):—[tatpurusha compound] 1. m. f. n.

(-pyaḥ-pyā-pyam) To be ashamed of. 2. n.

(-pyam) (In Buddhistic doctrine.) One of the 108 dharmālokamukha q. v., probably: bashfulness; it leads to dispassion for the exterior world. E. trap with apa, kṛtya aff. ṇyat.

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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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Ends with: Anapatrapya, Hrirapatrapya, Vyapatrapya.

Full-text: Hrirapatrapya, Dhana, Otrapa, Otrapya, Vyapatrapya, Ottappa.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Part 2 - Disadvantages of liquor < [Section I.5 - Abstention from liquor]

Section B.1 - Removing envy < [Part 2 - Means of acquiring meditation]

VII. Ills of the world (1) Evils and wickedness of beings < [Chapter XXXVII - The Ten Concepts]

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The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)

Chapter VII - The ordination of Mahā-Kāśyapa < [Volume III]

Chapter XI - The fourth Bhūmi < [Volume I]

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