purusakāra- (9623)

purusakāra-
Entry 9623, Page 348, Col. 2

(purusakAra, purusakAra-)
purusakāra-¦ (= Skt.), in °ra-phalam, one of the 5 phala (q.v.): Mvy 2274; sc. of karuṇā acc. to Sūtrāl. xvii.31, comm., fruit consisting of heroic deed, because it brings happiness to others and penance (austerity, tapas) to oneself, reading in text and comm. tāpaka instead of tāyaka, with Lévi's note in transl., but Lévi's transl. (qui éclaire le Moi) seems clearly wrong; it brings pain to oneself, pleasure only to others; tapas surely cannot mean illumination; it is this quality which makes it heroic; in more general sense Bbh 102.17, expl. 103.1--5, puruṣa- kāreṇa yadi vā kṛṣyā…sasyādikaṃ lābhādikaṃ ca phalam abhinirvartayati…

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