aṃśa (2)

aṃśa
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(aMSa, aMSa<h>1)
1 aṃśa¦, m., (1) (= Pali aṃsa, only in comp.) (part, and so) time (as past, present, future): Mv i.160.8, 9 (prose) atīte aṃśe…anāgate aṃśe…pratyutpanne aṃśe (in sense of usual adhvani, see adhvan, which is used in Sūtrāl. xx-xxi.57 and Mvy 151--153 in parallel to this passage, on the 18 āveṇika buddha-dharma); atīte aṃśe Mv i.161.6; atītāṃśagatā (= Pali atītaṃsa-) Mvy 6438; (2) portion, in maitra aṃśa portion of affection, virtually = love (so Pali cpd. mettaṃsa, It. 22.4, not adj. with PTSD but noun love, °so sabbabhūtesu veraṃ tassa na kenaci, he has love for all creatures, has no enmity with anyone); maitreṇāṃśena sphuritvā, having suffused with love Divy 60.24 (so with mss.); 61.12 (here mss. and ed. maitreyāṃśena, a corruption due to repeated occurrence of name Maitreya in the context); 66.18 (here kept in ed. with mss.); see sphurati; a variant form, in comp. with maitra or maitrā, seems to occur in maitrāsa-tā, q.v.--See aṣṭāṃśa.

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