agra, (1) (128)

agra, (1)
Entry 128, Page 4, Col. 2

(agra, agra)
agra, (1)¦ adj. (in Skt. only Lex.; replaces Skt. agrya; = Pali agga), first, chief, prime, foremost, best: Mvy 2521; ye brāhmavimāna agrās SP 190.16 (vs); sūtram agram 385.2 (vs); lokasyāgro LV 162.2, best of the world; dhyāyina agrā 169.5 (vs); jñānaṃ cāgraṃ 371.14; agraṃ ca… ojaḥ 387.1; bhavān ihāgras tribhave 398.21; agro prajñāye Mv i.44.9, first in wisdom; 113.6 (food); 248.17, 18; ii.208.13; 259.9; iii.63.17--18; Divy 61.29; 349.14; 385.8; Śikṣ 129.4; 311.14 f.; Bbh 94.17; etc., common. As prior member of cpds.: agra-gaṇikā, leading harlot Mv iii.35.17 ff.; agra- pudgala, foremost person, a Buddha, Mv i.47.2 (mss. mostly °puṅgala); agrapura, leading city, Mv i.4.6; agrabala, having prime powers Divy 99.20; agrabalin, MSV ii.78.4; agraśrāvakā, leading disciples, Mv i.307.4; others, see the following entries; also (like vara) at the end of cpds. in same sense, see rasāgra; (2) nt. of the preceding used as substantive: (a) the best of its class, used particularly as predicate to ākhyāyate (°ti), with a personal subject (so in Pali, tathāgato tesam aggaṃ akkhāyati, CPD s.v. akkhāyati): (sā…) agram ākhyāyati Mv iii.390.6; samyaksaṃbuddhas teṣām agram ākhyātaḥ Av i.50.1 (so ms.; Speyer em. agra(ḥ); to be sure agra(ḥ) is printed in the text of the same phrase, without report of v.l., in Av i.329.16, but Mv and Pali support agram of ms. in [Page005-a+ 71] i.50.1); (b) first-class gift, as if for agra-dāna (cf. Pali agga-dāna and CPD s.v. agga 2, c), agraṃ abhiharāmi te Mv iii.211.10; the same vs in Pali DN ii.240.17 has aggha twice in text but v.l. once agga, and cf. Jāt. v. 377.19 aggaṃ in same sense.

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