In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Utpādika (उत्पादिक) refers to the “strive for awakening” [?] (eg., Prathamacittotpādika—‘the initial resolution to strive for awakening’), according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as the Lord said to Brahmā Prabhāvyūha: “(1) The root of good’ is the initial resolution to strive for awakening (prathama-citta-utpādika), and the root of all qualities of the Buddha; ‘merit’ is, as soon as the thought of awakening is produced, to conquer all items of meritorious action consisting in generosity, morality, and meditational self-cultivation of all disciples and isolated Buddhas; ‘knowledge’ is to accumulate the root of good, and to transform the accumulations into omniscience [...]”.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Utpādikā (उत्पादिका).—

1) Name of a certain insect, the white ant.

2) A mother.

3) A vegetable हेलंची (helaṃcī) (Mar. cākavata)

4) The herb पूतिका (pūtikā) (Mar. thora mayāḷa).

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

Utpādika (उत्पादिक).—adj. (compare also cittotpādika), productive: Kāraṇḍavvūha 80.6 prajāmaṇḍalasyotpādikāḥ (kleśāḥ).

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

1) Utpādikā (उत्पादिका):—[from utpādaka > ut-pad] f. (ikā) a species of insect (perhaps the white ant?), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] Enhydra Hingtsha, [Harivaṃśa]

3) [v.s. ...] Basilla Rubra, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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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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Ends with: Cittotpadika.

Full-text: Upadehika, Upadika, Upacika.

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