Vipancita, Vipañcita: 3 definitions
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Vipancita means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Vipanchita.
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the GaganagañjaparipṛcchāVipañcita (विपञ्चित) or Vipañcitajña refers to a “full detailed explanation”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as the Lord said: “So it is, friends. The sphere of the Buddha is just like what you said. However, friends, their thoughts are dependently originated, and I see living beings who walks with desire and who stops without desire, who wears a dharma-robe being full of impurities and who puts on the robe without impurities, and who eats porridge out of greed and who stops it without appetite. O friends, the types of behavior of living beings are so diverse. Since there are living beings who strive for [the Buddha’s] words by understanding a condensed statement or by understanding a full, detailed explanations (vipañcita-jña), the Tathāgata gives them the discourses of teaching the dharma, accordingly to each individual”.
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
Pali-English dictionary
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryVipañcita, (fr. vi+pañc, cp. papañcita) only in phrase °ññū either: knowing diffuseness or detail, or: of unillusioned understanding, clear-minded, unprejudiced, combined with ugghaṭita-ññū at A. II, 135=Pug. 41 (translated by B. C. Law as “learning by exposition”; PugA 223 explains as “vitthāritaṃ atthaṃ jānāti, ” i.e. one who knows a matter explained in detail. The spelling at A. II, 135 is vipacita°; at Pug. 41 vipaccita° & at PugA vipaccita°, with v. l. vipañcita°); Nett 7 sq. 125; SnA 163 (where ugghaṭita-ññū is applied to those who understand by condensed instruction, saṅkhepa-desanāya, and vipañcita-ññū to those who need a detailed one, vitthāradesanā; thus “learning by diffuseness”).—At Nett 9 we have the var. terms vipañcanā, vipañcayati & vipañciyati (denom. ) used in the description of var. ways of parsing and grammatical analysis. Here vipañcanā (resting clearly on Sk. papañca expansion) means “expanding” (by letters & vowels) and stands midway between ugghaṭanā & vitthāraṇā “condensing & detailing. ” The term vipañcayati (=vipañciyati) is used in the same way.—Note. The term is not sufficiently cleared up. It occurs in BSk. as vipañcika (e.g. Divy 319, 391, 475, where it is applied to “brāhmaṇā naimittikā” & translated by Cowell as “sooth-sayer”), and vipañcanaka (Divy 548?), with which cp. vipañcitājña at Lal. Vist. 520. See remark on vejjañjanika. (Page 626)
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryVipañcita (विपञ्चित).—adj. (ppp. of Jain Sanskrit vipañcayati, once [Boehtlingk]; compare next), explicitly declared or made known: yo lābho [Page491-a+ 71] niyato °taḥ Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.113.1; niyato 'vipañcitaḥ 112.18; yo lābho 'niyato 'vip° 113.6.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Vipancitajna.
Ends with: Avipancita, Sarvadharmasvabhavasamatavipancita.
Full-text: Vipancana, Avipancita, Veyyanjanika, Samadhiraja Sutra, Dharmavatarana, Avatarana.
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The Mahavastu (great story) (by J. J. Jones)
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