Ekotibhava, Ekotibhāva, Ekoti-bhava, Ekotībhāva: 2 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryEkotibhāva (एकोतिभाव).—m. (= Pali ekodi°, app. not recorded with ī, which is commoner in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] tho both are written; [etymology] and lit. meaning much disputed, see refs. in Lévi Asaṅga (Mahāyāna-sūtrālaṃkāra) xiv.14n., Renou JA 1939 p. 393 note 1, referring especially to ŚB 12.2.2.4 prāṇā nānā santa ekotayaḥ samānam (so, not °nām!) ūtim anusaṃcaranti; here ūti surely means web, and it is hard to believe with Eggeling's translation(s) (note) that the second part of the [compound] ekoti could mean anything else; compare the next two items), the becoming concentrated, concentration (of mind, cetasaḥ; seems to mean about the same as Sanskrit ekāgratā manasaḥ); chiefly in formulaic statement of process leading out of the first dhyāna into the second, found (with slight variants) Mahāvyutpatti 1479; Lalitavistara 129.3; 343.17; Mahāvastu i.228.5; ii.131.18; 283.8; iii.213.9 (here, by a strange confusion of formulas, applies to entrance into first dhyāna); Daśabhūmikasūtra 34.2: sa vitarkavi- cārāṇāṃ (var., taking sa as associative prefix, savitar- kāṇāṃ savicārāṇāṃ, or the like) vyupaśamād adhyātma- saṃprasādāc cetasa ekotibhāvād (once °vā; ekotī° Mahāvyutpatti; Mahāvastu i.228.5; iii.213.9; Daśabhūmikasūtra; and vv.ll. Lalitavistara 343.17; Mahāvastu ii.131.18) avitarkam avicāraṃ samādhijaṃ prītisukhaṃ dvitīyaṃ (Mahāvastu iii.213.9 prathamaṃ) dhyānam upasaṃpadya viharati (or other form of this verb); this passage is prose and the var. in quantity cannot be m.c.; other occur- rences, Mahāvyutpatti 1656 ekotībhāvaḥ; Gaṇḍavyūha 490.15 (prose) sa ekotībhāvagataḥ sarvabuddhadharmeṣu; Gaṇḍavyūha 305.7 (prose) ekotībhāvagataṃ dharmadhātum avatarāmi.
Ekotibhāva can also be spelled as Ekotībhāva (एकोतीभाव).
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Ekotībhāva (एकोतीभाव) or Bhūta.—see ekoti°.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryEkotibhāva (एकोतिभाव):—[=ekoti-bhāva] [from ekoti > eka] m. (the thread-like continuity of personality or individual life running through the whole cycle of re-births), ([Buddhist literature])
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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