Jnatra, Jñātra: 5 definitions

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

Jñātra (ज्ञात्र).—nt. (rarely Vedic id., VS 18.7, commentary jñātur bhāvo, vijñānasāmarthyam; PB 5.7, see [Boehtlingk and Roth]; probably here too reputation for skill; = Pali ñatta, Dhammapada (Pali) 72, badly defined [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary]; it means public reputation for skill, which only fools seek, to their ruin, as the Dhammapada (Pali) verse says and the commentary's story illustrates), public reputation for skill or intellectual accomplishments, regularly mentioned as something which a good monk or Bodhisattva should not covet: lābhaṃ ca jñātraṃ (so with Kashgar recension, text jñātaṃ) ca gaveṣamāṇaḥ Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 27.7 (verse), coveting profit and reputation for skill; in corresponding prose 22.4—5 lābha- guruko 'bhūt satkāraguruko jñātraguruko (so v.l., text jñāta°) yaśaskāmas; aniśrita sarva-jñātra-lābhe Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 16.3 (verse); tyakta…jñātram aśeṣam 21.6 (verse), of good Bodhi- sattvas; tyaktva ca jñātra-lābha-yaśa-kīrti 33.2 (verse); jñātra-gurukāḥ 34.4 (prose), of evil Bodhisattvas; jñātra- lābha-mātrakena (so!) 34.12 (prose); jñātra-pratilambhaḥ Bodhisattvabhūmi 289.10, 16.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Jñātra (ज्ञात्र).—[neuter] capacity of understanding, intelligence.

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

Jñātra (ज्ञात्र):—[from jñā] n. the intellectual faculty, [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā xviii, 7; Taittirīya-saṃhitā vii, 2, 4, 2; Maitrāyaṇī-saṃhitā iv, 2, 8; Tāṇḍya-brāhmaṇa v, 7.]

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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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