-avacara (2058)

-avacara
Entry 2058, Page 70, Col. 2

(avacara, -avacara)
-avacara¦ (= Pali id.; orig. noun, cf. Senart Mv i.397, but only used at end of Bhvr. cpds., having…as scope; f. °rī; called ‘ts.’ by CPD, but clearly a Buddhist word, as stated in pw s.v.; found virtually only in Bu. works and Lexx. in Skt.; otherwise occurs once in Rājat. (?), and, to be sure, yajñāvacará in MS., see pw s.v.; despite these rare Skt. occurrences belongs fundamentally to Pali and BHS, where it is very common); scope, sphere, range of activity or existence: antarīkṣāv° who live in the atmo- sphere SP 288.10 (devatāḥ); Mv i.33.5 (śuddhāvāsakāyika deva); dakṣiṇāvacara, vāmāv°, having the right (left; viz. part of the womb) as his abiding-place LV 55.5, 6; buddha- śāsanāv° Śikṣ 214.10 within the scope of the Buddha's commands (wrongly Bendall); saṃsārāvacarīṃ…sam- yagdṛṣṭim Śikṣ 316.16, true views regarding the saṃsāra; saṃskṛtāv° Gv 496.6, things in the realm of the conditioned; traidhātukāv° Bbh 246.25, belonging to the sphere of the trai°; caturbhir mārāv° Dbh 54.17, with Rahder, citing a Jap. source, things belonging to the four Māra-domains, i.e. the domains of the four Māra, q.v.; atarkāv° Mv iii.314.2, not within the scope of reasoning (of dharma; so Pali atakkāv°, of dhamma); akṣudrāv° Mv ii.9.1 (of the Bodhisattva's mother); ii.1.7 (of the family where the [Page071-a+ 71] Bodhisattva is born); antaḥpurāv° Jm 185.24, whose business was the harem: turagāv° Buddhac. v. 68, groom; esp. in kāmāv°, rūpāv°, arūpāv° (or ārūpyāv°), of classes of gods, see under these entries. See also tāḍāvacara.

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