Nairayika: 6 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryNairayika (नैरयिक).—An inhabitant of hell.
Derivable forms: nairayikaḥ (नैरयिकः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryNairayika (नैरयिक).—once nir°, q.v., adj., also subst. m., and rarely nt. (= Sanskrit Lex. id., Pali ner°, which is used in [Page312-b+ 71] very similar phrases), of hell: adj. with sattva, creature reborn in hell (said of the damned, not of fiendish tormen- tors of them with Senart on Mahāvastu i.6.14), Lalitavistara 86.11; Mahāvastu i.6.14, etc.; ii.301.6; as subst. without sattva, inhabitant of hell, Mahāvastu i.17.6; iii.43.5 (°kāni); one destined for hell, Divyāvadāna 165.19 (°ko, of a man); adj. with duḥkha, pains of hell, Mahāvastu i.5.1; ii.350.6; iii.274.8; Gaṇḍavyūha 522.20; with kāraṇa, torment, Śikṣāsamuccaya 181.14; °ka-mārga- Śikṣāsamuccaya 215.1, the path to hell; °ka-kāya Daśabhūmikasūtra 68.7, body (existing) in hell; with āyuḥ, span of life in (an existence in) hell, Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 30.17.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryNairayika (नैरयिक):—[=nair-ayika] [from nair > naiḥ] mfn. hellish, an inhabitant of hell, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Nairayika (नैरयिक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇeraia.
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