Pravicaya: 7 definitions

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Alternative spellings of this word include Pravichaya.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Pravicaya (प्रविचय) refers to “investigating (the dharma)”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How then, son of good family, the Bodhisattva, having accumulated immeasurable merits, nourishes all living beings? Son of good family, [...] (7) his thoughts are like an earth since there is no high or low in his mind; (8) he is free from thoughts by pure morality; (9) his thought is liberated and the gate is free from hindrance by accomplishing all sacrifices; (10) he has perfected memory and eloquence by investigating the dharma (dharma-pravicaya); (11) he depends on the knowledge of supernatural powers by going to immeasurable Buddha-fields”.

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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

[«previous next»] — Pravicaya in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pravicaya (प्रविचय).—Examination, investigation.

Derivable forms: pravicayaḥ (प्रविचयः).

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

Pravicaya (प्रविचय).—m. (= Pali pavi°; to Sanskrit pravicinoti), discriminating comprehension (generally rendered investi- gation, [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary], Untersuchung, [Boehtlingk], which seems to me not quite exact); Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti rab tu (= pra) rnam par (= vi) ḥbyed pa (separate, divide, classify, select): especially dharma- pra°, one of the (saṃ) bodhyaṅga (Pali dhamma-vicaya), Mahāvyutpatti 990; Lalitavistara 34.4; and dharma° elsewhere, Lalitavistara 181.16 (°ya-kuśalo); Kāśyapa Parivarta 50.2 (°ya-kauśalya); Mahāvyutpatti 846; buddha- dharma-pra° Daśabhūmikasūtra 71.5; dharmāṇāṃ (here probably states of being) pra° Bodhisattvabhūmi 212.4; loka-pra°-saṃpannā(ḥ) Mahāvastu ii.290.3 and iii.320.12, of Bodhisattvas or Buddhas; (acintyajñāna- māhātmyaṃ ca pravicinvan, dhāraṇīsamādhi-)°cayaṃ ca pariśodhayan Daśabhūmikasūtra 73.13; pravicaya-(v.l.°ye) buddhyā Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 15.2, with mind set on discernment (no dependent noun; could hardly be investigation); ā paramāṇu-°cayād Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 52.6; others, Bodhisattvabhūmi 31.25; Gaṇḍavyūha 248.23.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pravicaya (प्रविचय).—m.

(-yaḥ) Examination, investigation.

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

1) Pravicaya (प्रविचय):—[=pra-vicaya] a See below.

2) [=pra-vicaya] [from pravi-ci] b m. investigation, examination, [Lalita-vistara]

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Pravicaya 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.

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