Mrigadaya, Mṛgadāya: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Mṛgadāya can be transliterated into English as Mrgadaya or Mrigadaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Mṛgadāya (मृगदाय) or “deer park” is the name of a place at Vārānasī where the vihāra named Ṛṣipatana was located, according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter V. Note: Ṛṣipatana or Ṛṣivadana, on the outskirts of Benares where the Deer Park (Mṛgadāva or Mṛgadāya) is located. It is there that all the Buddhas must give their first sermon and the Buddha preached the Dharmacakrapravartanasūtra to the five monks; it is one of the four great pilgrimage places, determined by the Buddha.
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
Mṛgadāya (मृगदाय) or Mṛga-dāva.—[, m. ([compound] only recorded in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] and as miga-dāya in Pali, tho both constituents are Sanskrit), deer-park, almost exclusively used of the park Ṛṣipatana, °vadana, etc., at Benares, where Buddha is said to have first preached; the form °dāya is never recorded in mss., tho Senart adopts it by em. in Mahāvastu i.366.8, where the [etymology] offered seems naturally to call for it (but compare Lalitavistara 19.4 below): mṛgāṇāṃ dāyo dinno mṛgadāve ṛṣipaṭṭane (mss.; Senart em. mṛgadāyo ti ṛṣipattano); the following all refer to the Benares park, usually in loc., Ṛṣipatane (°vadane, etc.) mṛgadāve: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 69.12; Lalitavistara 18.20; 19.4 (abhayadattāś ca) tasmin mṛgāḥ prativasanti iti…mṛga- dāva iti saṃjñodapādi, compare Mahāvastu i.366.8, above; Lalitavistara 264.22; 402.3; 404.17; 407.16; 412.9; 413.1; Mahāvastu i.161.4, 323.14, 17; 330.4; 331.3; ii.138.2; iii.323.3; 330.17; Divyāvadāna 464.16; [Page438-a+ 71] Avadāna-śataka i.42.9; Mahāvyutpatti 4129; once, in Divyāvadāna 182.25, of a quite different deerpark called Bhīṣaṇikāvana, in Śuśumā- ragiri.
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: Mriga, Daya, Taya, Thina.
Full-text: Mrigadava, Rishipatana.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Appendix 6 - Description of Ṛṣipatana or Ṛṣivadana (at Benares) < [Chapter V - Rājagṛha]
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Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
Manasollasa (study of Arts and Sciences) (by Mahadev Narayanrao Joshi)
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