Sauratya: 4 definitions

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In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

1) Sauratya (सौरत्य) refers to “mildness”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How then, son of good family, does the Bodhisattva collect all qualities of the Buddha by thorough practice (yoniśas-prayoga)? [...] The tolerance and mildness (kṣānti-sauratya) are the causes which are the ornaments of body, speech and thought; the Bodhisattva practices what is good for oneself and for others through the ornaments of body, speech and thought; he, having transferred the basis of wishing to help and tolerance into omniscience, fulfils the perfection of tolerance”.

2) Sauratya (सौरत्य) refers to the “gentleness (of the dharma)”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā.—Accordingly, “[...] At that time, sixty koṭis of Bodhisattvas, having stood up from the congregation, joined their palms, paid homage to the Lord, and then uttered these verses in one voice: ‘[...] (222) Despite seeing numerous errors of living beings directly, we will investigate ourselves, abiding in the gentleness of the dharma (dharma-sauratya-saṃsthita). [...]’”.

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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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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Sauratya (सौरत्य).—nt. (= Pali soracca; to sūrata, su°, plus -ya; also written soratya and erroneously saurabhya, q.v.), gentleness, mildness; regularly rendered by Tibetan des pa, see sūrata: oftenest closely associated with kṣānti, Mahāvyutpatti 1115; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 234.8 (all mss. °bhya, ed. em.); 236.9; Śikṣāsamuccaya 183.14; 326.12; Kāśyapa Parivarta 153.5 (sor°); Daśabhūmikasūtra 13.19; 37.11; Daśabhūmikasūtra.g. 51(77).20; Bodhisattvabhūmi 20.12; 143.27; Udānavarga xix. 2; with sukhasaṃvāsa, q.v., Bodhisattvabhūmi 333.6; without either of these words, Mahāvyutpatti 6597; Jātakamālā 41.3; Bodhisattvabhūmi 368.26 (a-sau°); Śikṣāsamuccaya 46.14 (dharma-sau°, the gentleness of, according to, the law; not love for the law with Bendall and Rouse).

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

Sauratya (सौरत्य):—[from saurata] n. delight in ([compound]), [Jātakamālā]

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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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