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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Parivitarka (परिवितर्क) (Cf. Cetaḥparivitarka) refers to “(telepathically) knowing the thought (of another)”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly: “[...] Then the Bodhisattva named Samantāloka thought like this: “Does this magical arrangement of the Bodhisattva Gaganagañja exist only in this world, or in other world-spheres as well?’ The Bodhisattva Gaganagañja, knowing telepathically the thought (cetas-parivitarka) of the Bodhisattva Samatāloka, said to him: ‘Son of good family, if you gain the divine sight which is completely clear and pure, son of good family, you can look at whatever can be seen in the world-spheres of ten directions’. [...]”

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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

Parivitarka (परिवितर्क).—

1) Any thought.

2) Examination; Buddh.

Derivable forms: parivitarkaḥ (परिवितर्कः).

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

Parivitarka (परिवितर्क).—m., rarely nt. (= Pali °takka), reflection, consideration, thought: tasyāsi °ko Mahāvastu iii.355.9 (verse), he reflected; almost always, as in Pali, preceded by cetaḥ- (always in composition with pari°, tho sometimes printed sepa- rately in edd.), or gen. cetasaḥ; eva(ṃ)rūpaś (°po) cetaso parivitarka udapādi (also °pāsi, utpadye, aor.) Mahāvastu i.51.9; 329.21; 330.19; ii.257.12—13; iii.314.15; 416.11; same but with cetasi cetaḥparivitarka (Divyāvadāna °kam) udapādi Divyāvadāna 291.24; Avadāna-śataka i.211.8; 240.2; evaṃrūpaś cetasaḥ (v.l. ceta- saiva cetaḥ-) °tarka utpannaḥ Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 195.1; of someone, regularly Buddha, ‘recognizing’ the mental processes of others by his own mind, cetasaiva cetaḥparivitarkam ājñāya (very common, e.g.) Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 8.4; 33.13; 206.7; 218.8; 250.8; 269.7; 303.1; Lalitavistara 69.9—10; 264.4—5 (read with best ms. A, text tr. cetaś cetasaiva pari°); Mahāvastu i.330.11; cetaso parivitarkam ājñāya iii.53.15; 315.2; 424.15; 444.6; Gaṇḍavyūha 6.11; with pl. subject, cetobhir (for cetasā)…Lalitavistara 285.21; with aor. ājñāsīt (for ājñāya) Lalitavistara 393.21; evaṃrūpeṇa (adv.; sc. cetasā ? but this adj. does not otherwise occur in this phrase and is probably introduced by confusion with the phrase cited previously) cetaḥpari° ājñāya Lalitavistara 396.5; ākāra-pari° (= Pali ākāra-parivitakka), careful considera- tion of appearances (or conditions), Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.236.21.

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

1) Parivitarka (परिवितर्क):—[=pari-vitarka] m. thought or anything thought of [Buddhist literature]

2) [v.s. ...] examination, [Divyāvadāna]

[Sanskrit to German]

Parivitarka in German

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vitarka, Pari.

Ends with: Akaraparivitarka, Cetahparivitarka.

Full-text: Parivitakka.

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