Samkashya, Sāṃkāśya, Sāṃkāśyā: 6 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Sāṃkāśya and Sāṃkāśyā can be transliterated into English as Samkasya or Samkashya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita SastraSāṃkāśya (सांकाश्य) is the name of a city in which the Buddha appeared according to appendix 3 of the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XVI). After having preached the Abhidharma for three months to his mother, the Buddha “came down from the Trāyastriṃśa heaven to Jambudvīpa in the city of Sāṃkāśya, into the Āpajjura enclosure at the foot of the Udumbara”.
According to appendix 3 of chapter XLII, “Seven days afterwards, escorted by Brahmā on his right and Śakra on his left, he descended from the heavens of the Trāyastriṃśas by way of a wondrous triple staircase and set foot on earth at Sāṃkāsya, in the Āpajjura forest, at the foot of the Udumbara tree (Ficus glomerata)”.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySāṃkāśya (सांकाश्य) or Sāṃkāśyā (सांकाश्या).—Name of the capital of Kuśadhvaja, brother of Janaka.
Derivable forms: sāṃkāśyam (सांकाश्यम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySaṃkaśya (संकश्य).—q.v.
Saṃkaśya can also be spelled as Sāṃkāśya (सांकाश्य).
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Saṃkāśya (संकाश्य).—q.v.
Saṃkāśya can also be spelled as Sāṃkāśya (सांकाश्य).
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Sāṃkāśya (सांकाश्य).—(mss. show still other variants; = Sanskrit Sāṃkāśya, Saṃ°, Pali Saṃkassa), also called Devāvatāra or °taraṇa, as being the name of the city (nagara) or country (janapada) where Buddha de- scended from the heaven of the Trāyastriṃśa (or Trayas°; °triṃśebhyo devebhyo Avadāna-śataka, below) to earth by a super- natural ladder (see Malalasekara (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names)): Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.163.9; (bhagavān…) devebhyas trayastriṃśebhyo jambūdvīpaṃ Sāṃkāśye (in 13 ms. °śe) nagare Āpajjure (q.v.; no such name seems to [Page590-a+ 71] occur in Pali, but the existence of a ‘deer-park’ at Saṃ- kassa is mentioned, Malalasekara (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names)) dāve udumbaramūla iti Avadāna-śataka ii.94.8, 13; Sāṃkāśye nagare…(see s.v. Devāvataraṇa) Divyāvadāna 150.22; °śye (here mss. Saṃkāśye) nagare 'vatīrṇo 'haṃ Divyāvadāna 401.22; Saṃkaśye (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 88.14, see s.v. Devā- vatāra; Śaṃkaśye (so text, read Saṃ°) tathā kṛtvā ṛddhir janapade tadā (so text; read ṛddhīr, ṛddhiṃ?) (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 582.24 (verse); this is followed by the two lines cited s.v. Agni- bhāṇḍa, apparently referring to a devāvataraṇa of the Buddha which occurred at some other place than Sāṃ- kāśya.
Sāṃkāśya can also be spelled as Saṃkāśya (संकाश्य), Saṃkaśya (संकश्य).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionarySāṃkāśya (सांकाश्य).—[masculine] [Name] of a man, [feminine] ā & [neuter] of a town.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Saṃkāśya (संकाश्य):—[=saṃ-kāśya] [from saṃ-kāśa > saṃ-kāś] [wrong reading] for sāṃ-kāśya.
2) Sāṃkāśya (सांकाश्य):—[from sāṃkāśina] m. ([from] saṃ-kāśa) Name of a man, [Mahābhārata]
3) [v.s. ...] n. and f(ā). Name of the town of Kuśa-dhvaja (brother of Janaka), [Rāmāyaṇa]
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