-balādhāna (10874)

-balādhāna
Entry 10874, Page 398, Col. 1

(balADAna, -balADAna)
-balādhāna¦, nt. (Skt. bala plus Skt. ādhāna, on this use of which see pw s.v. ādhāna 6), assumption, attainment, of (usually some particular) power (said of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas): Mv i.134.11--12 kṛtaniścaya-balādhānāś ca bhavanti (Bodhisattvas); SP 316.1 śṛṇudhvam idam evaṃrūpaṃ mamādhiṣṭhāna-balādhānam; 414.4 (bodhi- sattvasya) jñānabalādhānena puṇyabalādhānena ca (as manifested in his ‘act of truth’, satyādhiṣṭhāna); 420.7 evaṃ jñānabalādhānaprāptaḥ sa…bodhisattvo bhavi- ṣyati, this B. will be thus arrived at attainment of the power of knowledge; 426.6-7 tathāgatabalādhānena, by the T.'s acquisition of (the) power(s) (appropriate to him).

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