ājanya (2598)

ājanya
Entry 2598, Page 90, Col. 1

(Ajanya, Ajanya)
ājanya¦, also ājaniya, ājānya, ājāniya, ājāneya, adj. (= Pali ājañña, ājāniya, ājānīya, ājāneyya), of noble race, blooded, primarily of animals, esp. horses; by extension used of men, esp. Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and very rarely (meaning noble) of other, inanimate entities. Tib. (e.g. Mvy 1080, 4769, etc.) regularly renders caṅ śes (pa), omniscient, falsely interpreting the word as derived from jñā know. In composition, the word in all its forms regu- larly (not always) follows the noun, e.g. aśvājāneya, a blooded horse (orig. perhaps a thoroughbred of a horse?), below. As separate word: of animals, yo aśvavaraṃ damayed ājāneyan (= °yaṃ) va saindhavaṃ Ud xix.7; ājāneyā hayottamāḥ Mv ii.487.20; iii.22.11; cf. yuktāni ājānyarathāni Mv iii.441.10 chariots of (drawn by) blooded (horses), all hitched up; ājāneyau dvau balīvardhāv LV 381.7; ājăniyo hastipoto Mv iii.130.7 (prose, no v.l.); of men, ājāneyānāṃ sattvānāṃ Gv 322.8; °neyaḥ Mvy 1080, of śrāvakas; °neya ity ucyate LV 425.19, of the Tathāgata; ājāneyo kahin ti nāma (so Senart em., mss. kāma) bhoti Mv iii.397.14, answered by…ājāneyo (v.l. °ya) tam (Senart em. ti tam) āhu bhūriprajñā (mss. °jño) 398.12; voc. ājanya, addressed to Buddha, namas te muktā- yājanya Mmk 4.22; cf. Divy 617.16 ājāneya-mānā, paying reverence to the Noble One (the Buddha); in KP 9.5 and 10.5 dāntājāneya-prāpta; 9.14; 10.17 and 20 ājanya- prāpta, all of Bodhisattvas (cf. 10.1 ājāneyā bodhisattvāḥ), become noble (steeds), see s.v. prāpta; the figure of a horse is surely intended here, since there is contrast with KP 9.1 bodhisattva-khaḍuṅkāḥ, the latter (q.v.) being a term pertaining in its literal sense to horses; here may also belong Mv ii.264.14 ājāneya-vikrāntaṃ vikramantam, said of the Bodhisattva, striding with the stride of a blooded horse, or of a noble person (cf. the next following mahāpuru- ṣavikrāntaṃ vikr°), but possibly striding with a noble stride (cf. the preceding aparājitavikrāntaṃ vikr°), as in the next example; as prior member of karmadhāraya cpds. or bahuvrīhis based on them, occasionally noble, distinguished, in application to other than animate beings: catasra imā…ājāneya-gatayo bodhisattvenānugantavyāḥ RP 14.13, noble procedures (listed as sugatipratilābha, guruśuśrūṣaṇā, prāntaśayyāsanābhirati, pratibhānapra- tilābha; is the literal meaning gaits of a blooded horse?); ājāneya-svaraḥ Mv iii.343.5 could, then, also be taken as having a noble sound (ep. of the Buddha's voice), but in view of the preceding vṛṣabhasvaraḥ and the following krauñcasvaraḥ it probably means having the sound of a blooded (horse) and belongs above; once, at least, this adj. precedes in composition the name of the animal to which it is applied, ājāneya-hasty-upetān Śikṣ 26.14; but regularly this order is reversed (as in such cpds. as nara-śārdūla) and we find aśvājāneya, m. (lit. thoroughbred of a horse) Mvy 4773 (misunderstood pw s.v. ājāneya); Divy 510.21, 22; 511.1 ff.; Mv ii.270.11 (mss.); Gv 400.13; Śikṣ 28.3 (ms. aśvāyāneyān); bhadrāśvājāneya- Sukh 60.8--9; hastyājāneya Mvy 4771; Gv 400.12; Śikṣ 27.21; siṃhājāneya Mvy 4769; and (cf. above, and Pali puri- sājāneyya) by extension puruṣājāneya (the corruptions puruṣăjāneya and °ṣajāna occur in mss. and sometimes in edd.) LV 350.11, corresponds to Mv i.229.8; Mv ii.133.8; 284.18; in Mv i.316.4 ed. em. puruṣājāniyam, mss. cor- [Page090-b+ 71] rupt, reading doubtful; puruṣājanya Mv iii.109.5 (vs); Bbh 50.6 (voc., to the Buddha).

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