The Sanskrit term Dṛṣṭadharma can be transliterated into English as Drstadharma or Drishtadharma, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Dṛṣṭadharma (दृष्टधर्म).—A son of Upamadga.^*

• * Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 14. 9.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Dṛṣṭadharma (दृष्टधर्म) refers to “this life”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as Gaganagañja said to Ratnapāṇi: “Son of good family, those sixty-four dharmas are included in one hundred twenty-eight dharmas. What are those one hundred twenty-four? [...] (25) love is included in faultlessness and not concealing one’s own mistakes; (26) having faith in the maturation of action is included in being careful in this life (dṛṣṭadharma) and seeing imperfections as a danger for the next world; (27) little desire is included in properly grasping and not being satisfied with insight; (28) knowing satisfaction is included in being easily satisfied with food; [...]’”.

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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

Dṛṣṭadharma (दृष्टधर्म).—m., also as two words (= Pali diṭṭha-dhamma, also as two words), the visible world, the. present life, often contrasted with saṃparāya (sāṃ°): dṛṣṭa- dharmaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 2974; °ma-sukha- Jātakamālā 3.3; °ma-saṃparāya- sukhāya Bodhisattvabhūmi 198.9; °ma-hitāya Divyāvadāna 207.25; °ma-duḥkhaś Lalitavistara 416.20; yogināṃ nilayo hy eṣa dṛṣṭadharmavihāriṇām Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 6.13 (verse), for this (mountain, giri, from prec. line) is the abode of disciplined men that are dwelling in the visible (present) world (badly misunderstood by Suzuki); dṛṣṭe dharme, in the present life, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 279.7; Bodhisattvabhūmi 25.16; Mahāvastu iii. 211.15 = 212.2 (dṛṣṭa-); dṛṣṭa eva dharme Divyāvadāna 302.20; Avadāna-śataka ii.195.1; in Lalitavistara 409.12 (prose) read dṛṣṭa (with mss.) eva dharma (as loc., or possibly em. to °me with Weller 38); dṛṣṭe ca dharme…sāṃparāye ca Udānavarga v.25.

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

1) Dṛṣṭadharma (दृष्टधर्म):—[=dṛṣṭa-dharma] [from dṛṣṭa > dṛś] mfn. who has seen Dharma

2) [v.s. ...] m. this world, mundane existence, the present, [Divyāvadāna]

[Sanskrit to German]

Drishtadharma in German

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Drishta, Dharma, Tarma.

Starts with: Drishtadharman.

Full-text: Drishtadharmika, Drishta, Samparaya, Karma.

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