āyatana (2855)

āyatana
Entry 2855, Page 101, Col. 1

(Ayatana, Ayatana)
āyatana¦, nt. (in Skt. seat, abiding-place, home; the following senses seem hardly, if at all, to occur in Skt., but most of them apparently in Pali), (1) department, field (of art): in śilpāyatana (= Pali sippāy°), Mv ii.434.16 sarvaśilpāyatanehi…kuśo kumāro viśiṣyati, Prince Kuśa excelled in all departments of art; but the same word is also used (2) personally, applying to practitioners of the arts (perhaps as vessels, pātra, of the arts, cf. 3 below): Mv iii.113.12 sarve ca kapilavāstavyā śilpāyatanā (as masc. ? one ms. °nāḥ!), tad yathā lohakārakā etc. (list of artisans), all the artisans of Kapilavastu, such as…; similarly iii.442.17 śilpāyatanā (no v.l.), tad yathā lohakārakā etc.; in the same way tīrthyāyatana (vessel of heresy?) is used of heretical teachers Av i.231.3 yānīmāni…pṛthag loke [Page101-b+ 71] tīrthyāyatanāni, tad yathā, Pūraṇaḥ Kāśyapo Māskarī etc. (all persons); Pali has titthāyatana, nt., only as heretical school or doctrine (acc. to Ledi Sadaw JPTS 1913.117 harbours of error), or at least, it seems, never clearly of persons (some passages are ambiguous and might be so interpreted); Pali sippāyatana also does not seem to be applied to artisans, but only to crafts; (3) a worthy object (cf. an-āy°), = Skt. pātra: Divy 419.(22--)23 (api tu Buddhadharmasaṃghe) prasādam utpādaya, eṣa āyatana- gataḥ prasāda iti,…this is favor bestowed on a worthy object; (4) stage of ecstasy or trance (four such), see ākā- śānantyāyat°, vijñānānantyāyat°, ākiṃcanyāyat°, nai- vasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyat°: listed Mvy 3110--3113; also 1492--5 in list of samāpatti, q.v.; Dharmas 129; see also s.v. deva; (5) sense; organ of sense (six in number), dis- tinguished as ādhyātmika āy° (= Pali ajjhattika āy°) or as sparśāy° (= Pali phassāy°); likewise object of sense (also six), distinguished as bāhira (= Pali id.) or bāhya āy°: Mvy 2027 dvādaśāyatanāni, listed 2028--2039 in pairs, each cpd. with āyatanam (cakṣur-āy° etc.); the standard list contains six of each category, viz. cakṣus and rūpa, śrotra and śabda, ghrāṇa and gandha, jihvā and rasa, kāya and spraṣṭavya (q.v.), manas and dharma (2); Dharmas 24 lists each group of six as a (dvandva) cpd. concluded by āyatanāni (with sparśa in lieu of spraṣṭavya); Śikṣ 244.15 ṣaḍ imāni…sparśāyatanāni, katamāni ṣaṭ, cakṣuḥ sparśāyatanaṃ rūpāṇāṃ darśanāya, etc., including kāya (read kāyaḥ) sparśāy° spraṣṭavyānāṃ sparśanāya, manaḥ sparśāy° dharmāṇāṃ vijñānāya; ādhyātmikam āy° and bāhiram āy° Mv iii.66.3 ff. (parallel passage in Pali, MN i.190.20 ff.); ṣaḍ-āyatanam, the six senses (sense-organs and their respective objects, each pair regarded as a unit), one of the steps in the pratītya-samutpāda (= Pali saḷ- āyatana), Mvy 2246; Mv ii.285.9 f.; LV 347.2, 4; etc., cf. Lévi, Sūtrāl. xi.30, Transl. n. 2; actions are rooted in them, LV 374.13 (vs) iha me karmavidhānā…ṣaḍāyatanamūlā, chinnā drumendramūle (i.e. by attaining Buddhahood); compounded or associated with skandha, q.v., and dhātu (element, q.v.), the total being an expression for states of physical existence, LV 420.17 (vs) na skandha āyatana dhātu (better as dvandva cpd.?) vademi buddhaṃ, I do not call…the Buddha; LV 177.5 (cited Śikṣ 240.5; vs) skandhadhātvāyatanāni (prob. read with Śikṣ skandhāya- tanāni, better meter; so also Tib.) dhātavaḥ; Laṅk 18.6 skandha-dhātv-āyatanopagānāṃ sarvadharmāṇām; (6) abhibhv-āyatana, see s.v.; (7) kṛtsnāyatana, q.v., s.v. kṛtsna.

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