Nidhyapayati, Nidhyāpayati: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryNidhyāpayati (निध्यापयति).—(?) (= Pali nijjhāpeti, give to understand, Childers; certainly means this in Majjhimanikāya (Pali) i.321.7, = saññāpenti, commentary jānāpenti; in same line nijjhatti, see nidhyapti, defined by commentary ii.393.32 as synonym of saññatti; [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] defs. of this group of words need revision), causes meditation or comprehension; noted only in a probably spurious sentence, atha śuddhāvāsakāyikā devā nidhyāpa- yanti sma, bodhisattvam āharituṃ Lalitavistara 187.19 (bracketed by Lefm., om. most mss., Calcutta (see LV.), and Tibetan); would seem to mean, then the Ś. gods instigated earnest thought, to draw the Bodhisattva out. (In lines 21 ff. they cause the first of the Four Sights to appear to him.)
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