apāya (1345)

apāya
Entry 1345, Page 46, Col. 2

(apAya, apAya)
apāya¦ (= Pali id., also Skt. but not in this technical application), evil state, = durgati, q.v. There are three such (see s.v. gati): in hells, as animals, as ghosts. In Pali this group of three is rare; usually there are four, life as asuras being added: LV 32.12 try-apāya; 89.14 muktāś ca te tribhyo 'pāyebhyo; 92.15 (vs) triṣu apāyi (= °ye!); 196.8 trīṇy apy apāyāḥ; 300.21 (vs) apāya trayo (acc. pl.); 357.4 (vs) trīṇi śāntā apāyāḥ; Mv i.61.4 apāya-pratipūraka, filling (= crowding into) the (3) evil states of existence; ii.215.10 apāyeṣu apāyaṃ gamiṣyati, he will go to an evil existence in the (3) evil states; apāya- patha, ibid., LV 46.7; 117.9; °bhūmi, virtually = hell, more specifically (so also apāya in Pali), Suv 23.11 (vs) ye sattva tiṣṭhanti apāyabhūmau, ādīptasaṃprajvalitāg- nigātrāḥ; LV 178.7 (and 9, read with Tib. ṅan soṅ gsum, tri-apāya-, or tri-r-a°, for nirayāya).

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