avalokita (1) (2158)

avalokita (1)
Entry 2158, Page 74, Col. 2

(avalokita, avalokita)
avalokita (1)¦ nt., and once °tā, f. (= Pali °ta, oftener apalokita, nt.), act of looking; a look, gaze: fem. only LV 227.9--10 anyonya-mukhāvalokitayā rudanti sma, they wept with a gazing look at each other's faces; nt. LV 84.5 siṃhāvalokitaṃ mahāpuruṣāvalokitaṃ vyavalokayati sma; LV 191.17 (prāsādikena) avalokita-vyavalokitena (see s.v. vyavalokita), acc. to Tib., looking forward; Śikṣ 215.10 prasāritāvalokita-vilokita-supta-jāgarita-svaśarīragatopa- sthānaṃ; elsewhere in a similar cliché ālokita-(instead of ava°)-vilokita, q.v.; esp. nāgāvalokita (= Pali id., oftener °palokita), the gaze of an elephant (turning the whole body), Mv iii.55.18 sarvāvantena kāyena (so read with v.l. for text kālena) nāgāvalokitena; Divy 208.16--17 sarvakāyena nāgāvalokitena; Gv 48.15 nāgāvalokitena pratyudāvṛtya (q.v.); MSV i.62.17; (2) nt., n. of a work (called a vyākaraṇaṃ Mv ii.257.13; 259.4; but a sūtraṃ in the colophons, 293.15; 397.7) imbedded in the Mv in two forms, following one another, ii.257.6--293.15, and 293.16--397.7. The second of these, under the name Avalokana- (or °nā-)sūtra, q.v., was used (in a rather widely variant form) as one of the sources of Śikṣ. (3) m., said to be used for Avalokiteśvara, q.v.: Burnouf, Introd. 224 (and Skt. Lex.).

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