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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Pāpamitra (पापमित्र) refers to “bad friends”, according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter 39).—Accordingly, “[The knowledge of the retribution of actions (karmavipāka-jñānabala)].—[...] The Buddha knows the various causes and conditions of bad actions, such as greed, malice, fear, bad views, bad friends (pāpamitra), etc. He knows the various causes and conditions of good actions such as faith, compassion, respect, trance and absorption, wisdom, good friends (kalyāṇamitra), etc. Actions are dominant: there is no one among gods or men who is able to change the nature of actions. [...]”.

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Pāpamitra (पापमित्र) refers to “bad friends”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How, son of good family, does the Bodhisattva obtain the mastery (vaśitāprāpta) in the arising of birth and death? When the Bodhisattva is endowed with twelve dharmas, son of good family, he attains the mastery in the arising of birth and death. What are the twelve? To wit, (1) he avoids bad friends (pāpamitra-parivarjana) and serves spiritual friends; (2) he completely purifies erroneous view-points; (3) he purifies the mass of moral discipline which is authorized by the Buddha; (4) he knows the entrance into concentration; [...]”.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pāpamitra (पापमित्र).—a bad counsellor or friend.

Derivable forms: pāpamitram (पापमित्रम्).

Pāpamitra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pāpa and mitra (मित्र).

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

Pāpamitra (पापमित्र):—[=pāpa-mitra] [from pāpa] n. a friend of sin

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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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Partial matches: Mitra, Papa.

Starts with: Papamitratva.

Full-text: Papamitratva, Kalyanamitra, Samangita, Parivarjanata, Parivarjana, Varjana, Vicchandayati, Vichandayati.

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