aṣṭamaka, (1) (2362)

aṣṭamaka, (1)
Entry 2362, Page 81, Col. 2

(azwamaka, azwamaka)
aṣṭamaka, (1)¦ adj. or subst. m. (= Pali aṭṭhamaka, see CPD s.v.), one who is in the eighth (and lowest) stage of (Hīnayāna) religious development, = srotaāpanna- phala-pratipannaka (Dharmas 102; for the Pali see Childers, cited s.v. śaikṣa): Mv i.120.9 (prose) aṣṭamake dhutavedanāgṛddhā bhāvanān (so with all mss.; or read °nām; Senart em. °nā) uttrasanti, said of backsliding Bodhisattvas, being eager for the sensations which are (or should be) destroyed (even) in a person in the lowest stage of religious development, they shrink from self-cultivation (bhāvanā); Senart fails to understand; Mv i.159.8 aṣṭama- kādikā pudgalā yāvad arhatpudgalā (mss. puṃgalā both times), from the srotāpanna to the arhat; aṣṭamaka-bhūmi, here the third of the (seven) bhūmi of a śrāvaka, Mvy 1143; ŚsP 1473.12 et alibi, see bhūmi 4; aṣṭamaka- dharma, the conditions (or religious principles) of a person in this stage, ŚsP 1555.11; (2) m., n. of the king otherwise called Aṣṭaka, q.v.: Mv iii.364.7; 365.18; 366.7; 373.23; (3) n. of a nāga king: Māy 246.22; (4) n. of a maharṣi: Māy 256.13.

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