Sarvakalaka, Sarvakālaka: 1 definition

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

Sarvakālaka (सर्वकालक).—(see also sārvakālika), adj. with pud-gala, all-black, completely impure, said of a delinquent monk who has gone thru five rites of purification, but all wrongly done: Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.74.7; 77.6. If one or more of the five rites is done properly, the others wrongly, the delinquent remains impure and is called (successively) yadbhūyaskālaka, mostly black; upārdhakālaka, half black; ekadeśakālaka; and pradeśakālaka; if all are properly done, he is pure, apagatakālaka, q.v. In the virtual repetition, p. 78, pradeśakālakaḥ is accidentally omitted, but ekadeśakālakaḥ (line 13) has the definition given above to pradeśa-k° (only one of the five rites being done wrongly), which seems likely to be right. The ms. several times writes -kālika for -kālaka.

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