īryā-patha (3209)

īryā-patha
Entry 3209, Page 116, Col. 1

(IryApaTa, IryA-paTa)
īryā-patha¦, m. (= Pali iriyā-patha, AMg. iriyā- vaha; in mss., esp. of Mv and LV, often written iryā° or iryyā°, semi-MIndic, which Lefm. usually keeps but Senart emends to īryā°; once, at least, iriyā-patha, as in Pali, Mv ii.157.1, prose, kept by Senart; also airyāpatha, q.v.; see prec. and next), much commoner than the syn- onymous īryā, (1) movement (of physical movements of any sort): Mv i.22.11 (prose) chinna-iryāpathā (all mss., Sen. em. °īryā°) gacchanti (mss. gacchati), sinners in hell, confined in huts (gharakehi oruddhā), go with (freedom of) movement cut off, i.e. suffer restraint of movement (but possibly more specifically, suffer restraint of posture, see 4 below, e.g. are not allowed to sit or lie down); (2) ap- plied to any particular course of religious, esp. ascetic, performance, and specifically to disapproved ascetic practices of heretics, such as the ‘five-fire’ practice (men- tioned in the prec.): Divy 350.7 (sa) teṣāṃ-teṣām (of heretical ascetics) īryāpathān vikopayitum ārabdhaḥ; (3) generally less specific, behavior, deportment, good or bad, of people in general; but esp. of the approved deport- ment of pious Buddhists, of monks, or of Bodhisattvas or Buddhas; most commonly with favorable implication; but this may be made clear by an adjective, esp. prā- sādika, gracious, (religiously) attractive: Mv iii.27.3--4 prāsādikena īryāpathena (v.l. iryyā°), of a Pratyeka- buddha; in Śikṣ 348.6 prāsādika and aprāsādika īryā°, good and bad deportment, contrasted; Divy 82.14 śān- [Page116-1b+ 46] teneryāpathena, of Mahākāśyapa; LV 427.18 praśānteryā- pathaḥ, and 19 sarveryāpathacaryāviśeṣasamanvāgataḥ, attended by all excellent deportment and behavior, of the Tathāgata; creatures in general vary in deportment, LV 35.8 yathādhimukta-sattveryāpatha- (v.l. cited °iryyā°)- saṃdarśanāya; Gv 527.3--4 sarvasattvādhimuktisamair īryāpathaiḥ; specifically good deportment, SP 282.3 (vs) °pathaṃ yo mama rakṣamāṇo bhaveta bhikṣū…; LV 29.4 (vs) iryāpathe-ṣṭhā, abiding in…; 179.17 (bodhi- sattvo…sarvāntaḥpurasya…) īryāpatham upadarśya, having displayed proper behavior to all the harem (so Tib.); 220.6 īryāpathebhyaś (most mss. iry°) cyutāḥ, fallen away from right behavior; Dbh 71.19 tathāgateryāpathacaryā- cāritrānugato; Mv ii.157.1 (prose) iriyāpathasaṃpanno, perfect in deportment, of a monk; 390.8 (vs) īryāpathena su-upeta (with mss.) satvā, (there are no evil-doers here;) creatures are well endowed with proper deportment; Av ii.130.4 (corrupt); Mv i.174.11 (vs) īryāpathe (3 mss. iry°) ca vīrye ca dhyāne jñāne śame dame; iii.346.6 iryāpathe (so mss.) ca vīrye ca dhyāne jñāne tathaiva ca; often it is said that a newly-initiated person (of superior character) shows the īryāpatha, deportment, of a monk of long standing, LV 409.19--20 tad yathāpi nāma varṣaśatopapannasya bhikṣor īryāpathaḥ saṃvṛtto 'bhūt; Mv iii.65.5 iryāpatho (Senart em. īry°) sānaṃ saṃsthihe sayyathāpi nāma varṣaśatopasaṃpannānāṃ bhikṣūṇāṃ; similarly Mv ii.234.5; iii.92.10 (iryā instead of iryāpatho); 180.15; 181.7; 329.12; 413.13; Divy 37.3 (varṣaśatopasaṃpan- nasya) bhikṣor īryāpathenāvasthitaḥ; Av i.284.9 (dvādaśa- varṣopasaṃpannasyeva) bhikṣor īryāpathena…avasthi- taḥ; (4) as in Pali iriyāpatha, also used of four postures or bodily attitudes, that is modes of physical behavior, viz. walking, standing, sitting, and lying down: Mvy 212 vihāyasābhyudgamya caturvidham īryāpathaṃ kalpayati, mounting in the air, displays the four… (one of the abhijñā- karmāṇi); Mv i.168.10 (vs) īryāpathāṃ (3 mss. iry°) darśayanti catvāraḥ puruṣottamāḥ, no ca pariśramas teṣāṃ…, Buddhas display the four modes of behavior (like other men), and yet they are never weary (i.e. do not need to sit or lie down); AsP 520.12 dvābhyām everyā- pathābhyāṃ sthitvā, sthānena caṅkrameṇa ca (only standing and walking; he vows not to sit or lie down) kālam atināmayeyaṃ, repeated (var.) 521.6, which is cited Śikṣ 40.5 dvābhyām everyāpathābhyāṃ…; Gv 22.20 ff., īryāpatha repeatedly of physical movements (walking, standing, and sitting, line 22) of ordinary (not [Page117-a+ 33] religious) men; LV 9.8 caturīryāpatha-vinayanopavana- (so read, text °naupavana-)-suvardhita-taror (Tib. lus, body, for -taror, implying -tanor), (of the Bodhisattva) who possessed a ‘tree’ (body?) well-raised in the grove of (by?) exercise of the four modes of behavior; LV 256.18 (ṣaḍvarṣā bodhisattvo yathā niṣaṇṇa evāsthāt paryaṅkena) na ca īryāpathāc (all mss. ca iry° or cery°) cyavate sma, and did not abandon the posture (of sitting cross-legged); Mv i.236.14 (here mss. iry°) = 241.8 (vs) īryāpathaṃ… sarvābhibhuno (mss. °to) na vijahante (i.e. they walk and stand still when he does, see prec. line); only three, tribhir īryāpathair…sthānena caṅkrameṇa niṣadyayā RP 45.18.

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