Alternative spellings of this word include Chhorayati.

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

Chorayati (छोरयति).—rarely (Mahāvastu iii.20.2) choḍ° (compare prec.; not in Pali; AMg. and [Jaina Māhārāṣṭrī] ppp. choḍi(y)a, discharged, released; Hindi choṛnā, let go, release, abandon, etc., see Turner, Nepalese Dict. s.v. choṛnu), (1) clears away, removes: (withered flowers from caityas) choretva jālaṃ (see jāla) jinacetiyeṣu Mahāvastu ii.391.22; 392.4, 8, 12, 16, 20 (verses); same passages Śikṣāsamuccaya 306.2, 4 choritva, but 6, 8, 10 apanīya (ms.; wrongly em. to upa° in ed.); Tibetan cited by Bendall as bsal ba, which can only mean remove, clear away; immediately following verses deal unambiguously with meritorious clearing away of withered flowers, and in Mahāvastu ii.394.6, 10 choretva is again used, with objects osannapuṣpaṃ and nirmālyaṃ; Senart and Bendall misunderstand; pātrādhiṣṭhānaṃ chorayitavyam Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.98.3—4, he must put away the (food-) bowl-stand; (2) throws away (refuse, food-leavings, dirty water, etc.): chorayiṣyāmaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 8595 = [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 534.13 (water with which the food bowl has been washed); Mahāvyutpatti 8596 (leavings of food); ekānte chorayitvā (id.; text sthor°) (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 107.27; chorito (food regarded as unclean) Divyāvadāna 86.23; annapānaṃ choryate Divyāvadāna 84.21; ucchiṣṭoda- kaṃ choritaṃ 185.28; tad (foul stuff) ekānte chorayitvā Avadāna-śataka i.255.7; chorayitvā (a dead body) Divyāvadāna 166.1; sapta parvatā utpāṭitā, utpāṭayitvā laghunīvānyapradeśe cho- rayitvā Kāraṇḍavvūha 31.24, having plucked up and thrown away; with gen., tasya pātraśeṣaṃ °yanti Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.5.14, threw to that (ape) what (food) was left in their bowls; (3) discharges (bodily discharges): chorayiṣyāmaḥ (°mi; not in an im- proper place) Mahāvyutpatti 8627—28; emits (a sigh), ucchvāsaṃ choritam Kāraṇḍavvūha 57.15, 16; (4) casts off, puts aside, lays down (garments, ornaments): vastrāṇy ābharaṇāni ca pṛthivyāṃ chorayanti sma Lalitavistara 321.2; mukuṭaṃ…chorayitvā Lalitavistara 135.11 (verse), (Śuddhodana) laying off his diadem (etc., in saluting the Bodhisattva); (5) abandons, leaves (a place): choritva kṣetrāṇi svaka-svakāni Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 251.5 (verse), leaving their several (Buddha-) fields (they have come here; mis- understood by Burnouf and Kern); kva tvaṃ gato 'si mama śayi chorayitvā Lalitavistara 230.18 (verse; Gopā apostrophizes the Bodhisattva), abandoning my bed; (6) abandons, gives up: rājyaṃ ca rāṣṭraṃ ca chorayitvā Mahāvastu ii.483.3 = iii.18.6 (verse); choritā (? precise meaning uncertain from lack of context) Mahāvyutpatti 2553; gives away (in largess), paṭakāś choritāḥ Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.107.2; (7) abandons, deserts (a person): taṃ (sc. rājānaṃ) choḍitvā (v.l. choḍayitvā) Mahāvastu iii.20.2 (prose); choritaḥ (a man) Divyāvadāna 6.6; 334.22; chorayantu (a woman, in a cemetery, after cutting off her hands, feet, ears, and nose) Divyāvadāna 353.23; sa tam ekānte prakramya (read prakrāmya? [Page237-a+ 4] caus.) chorayitvā prakrāntaḥ (Speyer em. violently) Avadāna-śataka i.245.4, making him go off to one side and deserting him, he departed; (8) gets rid of, relieves oneself of (periods of life in the world): iyataḥ Subhūte kalpān bodhisattvo… [Page237-b+ 4] chorayati vipṛṣṭhīkaroti saṃsārād vyantīkaroti Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 343.18—19, so many aeons the B. gets rid of, abandons, puts an end to, from the round of existence (i.e. he shortens his necessary stay in the saṃsāra).

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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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Full-text: Chur, Laddi, Viprishthikaroti, Vyantikaroti, Nicchodeti, Jalaka, Jala, Lakshana.

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