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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Vairambha (वैरम्भ) or Vairambhavāyu refers to a type of wind that comes at the end of the kalpa, according to  the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 28.—Accordingly, “[Bodhisattva T’ien siu asked Mahākāśyapa]:—‘You are very old and the foremost among those who observe the dhutas; why cannot you control your mind and keep still?’ [Mahākāśyapa answered]:—‘My mind would never be disturbed by pleasures divine or human; but here there are marvelous sounds, the reward for immense merits of this Bodhisattva; when he produces these sounds by metamorphosis (nirmāṇa), there is no means to resist. When the winds of the eight directions arise, they are unable to shake Mount Meru; but when the P’i lan wind (Vairambha-vāyu) comes at the end of the kalpa, it blows away Mount Meru like straw’”.

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Vairambha (वैरम्भ) refers to a type of wind (vāyu), according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [as the Bhagavān teaches an offering manual]: “A wax Garuḍa should be made. [...] When there is a disturbance by winds, it should be placed at crossroads or at the city gate. All winds are stopped in a moment. Even the Vairambha winds [e.g., vairambhavāyu] are stopped. They are bound and unable to blow again. Merely upon showing, all Nāgas will run away”.

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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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Vairambha (वैरम्भ).—m. (1) (= Pali ver°; see also next; appears to be derived from *virambha, but no form or deriv. of vi-rabh- is recorded), n. or epithet of certain very violent winds: vairambha-vāyu-vikṣipta (so, as one word) iva pakṣī Lalitavistara 333.12 (verse); °bha-vātena yathaiva pakṣī kṣipyanti…Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 36.4 (verse); °bha-vātābhihata- śakuntavat Śikṣāsamuccaya 246.11 (prose); in Mahāvastu i.168.18 (verse) read, nearly with mss., vairambhā pi (mss. ṣi) ca vāta naṃ (see s.v. nam) vikopenti (q.v.) na dehakaṃ (q.v.; Senart em. wrongly); (Vairambhe mahāsamudre) vairambhā nāma vāyavo vānti Divyāvadāna 105.26; (2) name of an ocean: Divyāvadāna 102.29 (read °bhas for text °bhā); 105.25 (see above), 29; (3) = Vairambhya, or as pl. its people: °bheṣu Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.216.4; 217.4.

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

1) Vairambha (वैरम्भ):—mfn. = bhaka, [Divyāvadāna]

2) m. Name of an ocean, [ib.]

context information

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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Vairaṃbha (ವೈರಂಭ):—[noun] one of the four winds connected with the soul.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Vairambhaka, Vairambhana, Vairambhavayu.

Full-text: Vairambhaka, Vairambhana, Vairambhavayu, Vayusamkshobha, Samkshobha, Pravahayitum, Vahayitum, Catushpatha, Nagaradvara, Nam.

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Thirty minor Upanishads (by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar)

Subala Upanishad of Shukla-yajurveda, Chapter XV

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Act 9.4: Buddha Śākyamuni reigns over the Sahā universe < [Chapter XV - The Arrival of the Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions]

Part 1 - Definitions of Prajñāpāramitā < [Chapter XVII - The Virtue of Generosity]

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The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)

Chapter 86 - The sacrifice of meditation (dhyānayajña) < [Section 1 - Uttarabhāga]

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A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms (by William Edward Soothill)

Part 9 - Nine Strokes

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