Citrikaroti, Citrīkaroti, Citri-karoti: 1 definition

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[«previous next»] — Citrikaroti in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Citrīkaroti (चित्रीकरोति).—(= Pali citti°, perhaps also cittī°, see next; derived by Childers and [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] from Sanskrit citta-; Senart, Mahāvastu i.444, accepts this and regards [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] citrī° as false Sanskritization; later, he emends the forms occurring in Mahāvastu ii and iii to cittī°; whatever the history of the word may be, the [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] form is only citrī° or citri°); (1) ppp. respected, honored: (vayaṃ hi…) loke 'tīva citrī- kṛtāḥ Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 215.6 (prose, no v.l.); (2) pays heed: na °kari- ṣyati Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.8.1, 10, he will pay no heed; caus., causes to pay heed, gets the attention of (acc.): (Māra tried to distract the Bodhisattva,) na ca taṃ bodhisattvaṃ citrīkāresi (aor.; so mss., Senart em. cittī°) Mahāvastu ii.268.11; with non- caus. meaning, and °kar° with short a in mss. except in the first passage, Mahāvastu iii.282.6, 12; 283.2, 7, probably read in all approximately: na ca sānaṃ bhagavāṃ citrīkāraye (or °karaye), and the Lord paid no heed to them (the daughters of Māra who were seeking to distract him); the mss. are variously corrupt; Senart em. cittīkāraye; (3) citrīkṛta in a quite different sense: hastau saṃpuṭākārau kṛtvā anyonyāv āveṣṭya citrīkṛtau ātmorasi sthāpayet (in a certain mudrā) (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 400.28; similarly, hastāv udveṣṭya citrīkṛtāv abhayāvasthitau 401.20; hastāv ubhayāṅgu- ṣṭhavinyastau citrīkṛtau lalāṭe darśayed 401.25; punaḥ citrīkṛtau karau, svastikaṃ…bandhitavyam 407.21. It is clear that citrīkṛtau here applies always to the two hands in various mudrā-positions, but the meaning is not evident to me; possibly made elaborate, by intertwining the fingers (which is apparently characteristic of these mudrās)?

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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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