Guhyakadhipati, Guhyaka-adhipati, Guhyakādhipati: 5 definitions

Introduction
In Buddhism
1. Mahayana
Languages
1. Sanskrit
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Introduction:

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In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Guhyakādhipati (गुह्यकाधिपति) refers to the “Lord of the Guhyakas” and is sued to describe Vajrapāṇi, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [After the Vajrapāṇi asked the Bhagavān for instructions for protection of crops]: “Then the Bhagavān addressed Vajrapāṇi, the Lord of the Guhyakas (guhyakādhipati), ‘Vajrapāṇi, there is the dhāraṇī called the Nāga Assailing and Impeding Vajra, that is the seal of the heart of the Tathāgatas, uttered by former Tathāgatas, Arhats and Perfectly Awakened Ones. I will also utter it now. By this there will be a rapid guarding of all crops for the sake of warding off damage. [...]’”.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Guhyakādhipati (गुह्यकाधिपति).—an epithet of Kubera.

Derivable forms: guhyakādhipatiḥ (गुह्यकाधिपतिः).

Guhyakādhipati is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms guhyaka and adhipati (अधिपति). See also (synonyms): guhyakeśvara.

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

Guhyakādhipati (गुह्यकाधिपति).—(and see Āguhyakā°), Guhya- kendra, also twice Guhyādhipati (otherwise guhya for Sanskrit guhyaka seems unrecorded; the cpds. in Sanskrit refer to Kubera), epithets of Vajrapāṇi, q.v.: Lalitavistara 66.5…ma- hāyakṣasenāpatayo Guhyakādhipatiś ca nāma yakṣaku- laṃ yato Vajrapāṇer utpattis, te…; plainly stated as epithet of Vajrapāṇi, Guhyakādhi° (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 36.2 etc.; Guhyādhi° (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 36.6, 21 (both prose; in 21 misprinted Guhyădhi°); Guhyakendra (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 548.7. Note that Vajrapāṇi is also called Yakṣendra ((Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 25.12) and the like.

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

Guhyakādhipati (गुह्यकाधिपति):—[from guhyaka > guh] m. ‘lord of the Guhyakas’, Name of Kubera, [Mahābhārata ii, 1760.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Guhyakadhipati 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.

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