anuttara (805)

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anuttara
Entry 805, Page 27, Col. 1
(anuttara, anuttara)
anuttara¦, adj. (= Pali id.; cf. sottara; Skt. in this sense only Lex., replaced by anuttama, which has had its ending assimilated to superlatives owing to the mg. of the word), having no superior, highest, supreme: AsP 266.13, of cittāni; Gv 244.7 °rāṃ tathāgatavarṇaviśud- dhiṃ; LV 24.13 °ra-parivāraṃ (kulaṃ); 85.2 anuttaro bhaviṣyāmi sarvasattvānām; Divy 144.5 anuttare-manuṣ- yadharme (see s.v. uttari-, end); esp. epithet of samyak- saṃbodhi, SP 100.3; AsP 293.10; Vaj 24.2; LV 183.17; Laṅk 148.3 etc., etc., extremely common (see under abhisaṃbudhyate); m. as epithet of a Buddha, Mvy 9; as n. of a samādhi, Kv 52.3; f. with ellipsis of samyak- saṃbodhi (see above), SP 216.8 (prose) °rāṃ samyak- saṃbuddhaḥ samāno, being enlightened unto supreme (enlightenment); normally the noun samyaksaṃbodhiṃ follows anuttarāṃ in this common phrase; has it dropped out by haplography? (WT same text).

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