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

Āsphānaka (आस्फानक).—nt. (= Pali appānaka, °ṇaka; [etymology] and lit. meaning obscure; doubtless = āspharaṇaka (-samādhi), q.v.; Critical Pali Dictionary conjectures relation to (ā-)sphāyate, swells, grows; Lalitavistara seems to think of forms of spharati, but this may be etymological fancy, despite the Mahāvyutpatti āspharaṇaka-), name of a kind of dhyāna (either alone, or in [compound] °ka-dhyāna): Lalitavistara 250.14 °ka-dhyānaṃ samāpadyate…°nakam iti; explained lines 19—20 ākāśam aspharaṇam akaraṇaṃ avikaraṇaṃ tac ca sarvaṃ spharatīti hy ākāśasamaṃ tad dhyānaṃ (compare Tibetan on āspharaṇaka-) tenocyate āsphānakam iti; °kaṃ dhyānaṃ dhyāyeyaṃ (or other form of this verb) Mahāvastu ii.208.2; Lalitavistara 251.14 f., 21; 259.1, 8, 10 (ākāśadhātuspharaṇaṃ dhyāyaty āsphānakaṃ dhyānaṃ, he meditates the ā° meditation which agitates the ether-element), and ff.; Mahāvastu ii.124.9, 15 °nakaṃ (in 9 v.l. °nakadhyānaṃ; in 15 mss. °nakaṃ dhyānaṃ, or āsphāra- kaṃ) dhyāyeyaṃ.

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

Āsphānaka (आस्फानक):—[=ā-sphānaka] n. a [particular] meditation (?), [Lalita-vistara]

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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: Sphanaka, A.

Full-text: Aspharanakasamadhi, Appanaka, Namati, Spharana.

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