The Sanskrit term Dṛṣṭigata can be transliterated into English as Drstigata or Drishtigata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Dṛṣṭigata (दृष्टिगत) refers to “doctrinal viewpoints”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How then, son of good family, does the Bodhisattva never lose his supernormal knowledge after having attained the mastery of all dharmas? Son of good family, if a certain ascetic or a Brahmin produces the supernormal knowledge without having overcome the view that there is a permanent substance, he will loose his supernormal knowledge. However the Bodhisattva, having overcome sixty-two doctrinal viewpoints (dvāṣaṣṭi-dṛṣṭigata) derived from the root view that there is a permanent substance, produces the supernormal knowledge in the absence of any attachment of view; [...]”.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dṛṣṭigata (दृष्टिगत).—a theory, doctrine.

Derivable forms: dṛṣṭigatam (दृष्टिगतम्).

Dṛṣṭigata is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dṛṣṭi and gata (गत).

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

Dṛṣṭigata (दृष्टिगत).—(also dṛṣṭī°, sometimes even in prose; = Pali diṭṭhigata), nt., rarely masc., lit. what relates to heresy, substantially = dṛṣṭi, heresy; compare in Majjhimanikāya (Pali) commentary i.71.20 diṭṭhi yeva diṭṭhigataṃ, gūthagataṃ (text gutha°) viya; compare also dṛṣṭi-kṛta, which is not recorded in Pali or elsewhere; and see s.v. gata: Mahāvyutpatti 4651; Kāśyapa Parivarta 18.8; 109.2, see dṛṣṭi-kṛta (Tibetan renderings noted there); pāpakāni akuśalāni dṛṣṭigatāky utpannāni Lalitavistara 398.3 = Mahāvastu iii.317.7; dṛṣṭigatāni Lalitavistara 398.10; Jātakamālā 146.7; Bodhisattvabhūmi 228.1; °gatam Śikṣāsamuccaya 61.19; other, misc. forms Mahāvastu iii.67.9; 353.15 (°gateṣu, mss., Senart °gatiṣu); Śikṣāsamuccaya 18.4; Kāśyapa Parivarta 154.9; Gaṇḍavyūha 117.3; 508.15; dṛṣṭī-gatāni Mahāvastu iii.318.14 (prose: v.l. dṛṣṭi°); °gataṃ Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 61.13 (verse, ī may be m.c.); other dṛṣṭīgata, in prose, Kāśyapa Parivarta 94.3; 95.4; masc. dṛṣṭigatān Divyāvadāna 164.19, 22; dṛṣṭigatan (m.c. for °tān, °tāny) Kāśyapa Parivarta 18.8 (verse).

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

Dṛṣṭigata (दृष्टिगत):—[=dṛṣṭi-gata] [from dṛṣṭi > dṛś] n. theory, doctrine, [Divyāvadāna 164.]

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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.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Dṛṣṭigata (दृष्टिगत):—adj. seen; visible;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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Partial matches: Drishti, Gata.

Full-text: Gata, Krita, Dalana, Drishtikrita, Dvashashti, Gambhiradharma, Kanda, Drishti.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

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Sushruta Samhita, Volume 6: Uttara-tantra (by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna)

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