pūrva-yoga (9721)

pūrva-yoga
Entry 9721, Page 352, Col. 1

(pUrvayoga, pUrva-yoga)
pūrva-yoga¦, m. (in Mv also nt.; = Pali pubbayoga), lit. former connexion, i.e. deeds, adventures, lives in former incarnations: pratibhātu te vāgīśa tathāgatasya °go Mv i.267.10-11, let a previous life of the T. recur to your mind (there follows a story of a former life of the T. and of Vāgīśa together; but Senart is wrong in supposing that this ‘réunion antérieure’ is inherent in the mg. of the word); eteṣu pūrvayogā prakīrtitā śāstuno Mv i.338.9, previous lives or adventures in them; pūrvayoga-saṃpanna, per- fected in (thru) previous lives, said of the Buddha or Bodhi- sattva, Mv ii.259.11; 287.13; iii.320.2 (ye te sattvā °saṃ- pannā bhavanti te āryadharmacakraṃ pravartenti); colophons, Padumāvatīye pūrvayogaṃ Mv iii.172.4, and Rāhulabhadrasya pū° 175.19; etam eva °ga-parivartam Samādh 8.20; °ga-parivarta, title of SP Chap. 7 (not ‘ancient devotion’ with Kern, nor ‘l’ancienne application’ with Burnouf, but a former existence, of Śākyamuni and others, under an ancient Buddha).