udyāna (3581)

udyāna
Entry 3581, Page 131, Col. 2

(udyAna, udyAna)
udyāna¦ (in Skt. nt., park, and so Pali uyyāna), (1) park, as m. (? with m. form of pron.): udyāna sarve (n. pl.) LV 231.1 (vs); (2) advance (of an army), one of the arts mastered by the young Bodhisattva: LV 156.12 udyāne (Tib. mdun du bsnur ba, moving forward) niryāṇe avayāne…; (3) in Dbh.g. 20(356).11 divide, pro- bably, udyāna (for °naṃ) dhāraṇ' (for °ṇīnām! § 10.207) ita (= itaḥ) pañcamim (sc. bhūmim) ākramanti, for this reason (so Chin.) they enter the fifth (stage), a garden of dhāraṇīs (so Chin.). Were it not for the Chin. translation, I should be tempted to understand udyāna-dhāraṇ(am)…, they proceed to maintenance of progress (in general; an extension of 2, above) from this point to the fifth (stage). It may, however, be noted that in the prose of Dbh, 5th Bhūmi, the words udyāna (in mg. park) and dhāraṇī occur, not to be sure together, but in 45.24 and 46.12 respectively.

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