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

Pātayantika (पातयन्तिक).—adj., and °kā, subst. (for alternative Pali and [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] forms see below), causing fall (to an evil existence, if not repented and expiated); this is clearly the usual Northern interpretation; one of the three main kinds of monkish transgressions, the others being pārājika and saṃghāvaśeṣa, qq.v.: as adj., °ka with dharma, (trayāṇāṃ dharmāṇām anyatamānyatamena dharmeṇa vadet pārājikena vā saṃghāvaśeṣeṇa vā) pātayantikena vā [Prātimokṣasūtra des Sarvāstivādins] 489.(1—)3, and ff.; there are 30 offenses called niḥsargikāḥ (q.v.) pātayantikā dharmāḥ 490.8, listed in the following where each is called °gikā °yantikā (subst. fem.), 490.11—12 and ff.; they are followed by 90 pā- tayantikā dharmāḥ 502.13, each again styled pātayantikā (subst. fem.) 502.15 ff.; °tikā dharmāḥ also Mahāvyutpatti 8417 = Tibetan ltuṅ byed, lit. making fall, usually rendered trans- gression; the Pali correspondents are 30 nissaggiyā pā- cittiyā dhammā Vin. iii.195.1, each one styled nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyaṃ (nt., not f.) id. 18, etc., followed by 92 pā- cittiyā dhammā, Vin. iv.1, each one styled pācittiyaṃ 2.14 ff. On the various forms of Pali and [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] see (besides older treatments, now obsolete) S. Lévi, JA. Nov.—Dec. 1912, 506—8, and especially Waldschmidt, Kl. Sanskrit Texte 3.116 f., who says inter alia: In den späteren Turfanfragmenten erscheint ganz allgemein als Sanskritform pātayantikā’ (so e.g. op. cit. 41.1). He notes that pāteti is used in Pali in explaining pācittiya, Vin. v.148.30, and that pātayati is similarly used in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] in explaining the meaning of other (substitute) forms, see below. He states that Chin., like Tibetan (regularly ltuṅ byed, above), supports this meaning On the other hand he reports a [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] ms. reading pāca(tt)i, which reminds one of the Pali form; and shows that pātayantika, and other alternative forms, are rendered in ways which suggest association (certainly unhistorical) with root pac-; he cites a passage (p. 117) reading pā- tayantikā, pacati dahati uddahati avyutthitasyāvaraṇa- kṛtyaṃ karoti, tenāha pātayantikā, and compares Divyāvadāna 544.10 pāyantiketi (text pāpānti°, as also 543.24; in 544.15 mss. pāyantikām, read thus all three times with Lévi l.c. above) dahati pacati pātayati (so with Lévi for text yāt°). Besides the popular etymology pāpāntikā of the Divyāvadāna mss., just cited, [Tibetan-English Dictionary] gives pāpātmikā for Tibetan ltuṅ byed. The same word is read pāyattikāḥ (sc. dharmāḥ) [Page340-b+ 71] Mahāvyutpatti 8360; (naiḥsargikāḥ, q.v., = niḥsa°) pāyattikāḥ 8383, and pāpattikā (f.) 9223, but with vv.ll. in one or more of these places (besides pāyattikā in the last) pāyantika (pāyantikām āpattim, acc., Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.174.9), pāpantika, pāṭāyantika, pātavantika, (according to Waldschmidt also pādayantika,) and with °kā as subst. f. (pāyantikayā, instr., Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.109.20). There is moreover (besides pācatti cited by Waldschmidt above) prāyaścittikāḥ (sc. dharmāḥ) Mahāvyutpatti 8418 (śuddha-p°, according to Tibetan only, merely prāy°, ḥbaḥ zhig tu ḥgyur ba); (snāna-)prāyaścittikaṃ 8484 (both these = Tibetan ltuṅ byed); and prāyaścittikaḥ (sc. dharmaḥ) Mahāvyutpatti 9307 (= Tibetan ltuṅ ba, fall), which is fol- lowed by śuddha- (Tibetan ma ḥdres pa, unmixed) -pāpattikaḥ (sc. dharmaḥ; Tibetan again ltuṅ ba, = prec.) 9308, compare 8418 above, and s.v. śuddhaka. Lévi l.c. points out the phonetic difficulty of deriving Pali pācittiya from [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] prāyaścit- tika, and proposes an orig. *prākcitta plus -ika, thru *paccittika to pāci°, la pensée en avant, = either (des actes commis) avec précipitation, or qui précipitent (aux enfers). He cites a Tocharian loan pāyti, which he says goes back to pāyantika. It is obvious that the orig. form and meaning of the word can not be confidently reconstructed.

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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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Full-text: Prayashcittika, Papattika, Payattika, Pacatti, Payantika, Suddhaka, Samghavashesha.

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