bala, (1) (10855)

bala, (1)
Entry 10855, Page 397, Col. 2

(bala, bala)
bala, (1)¦ m., n. of a yakṣa: Māy 48; (2) m. = Skt. (and usual BHS) nt., force, power: balāś ca, n. pl., SP 47.2 (vs); abalo balo LV 301.4 (vs), (Māra's) power (force, host) is powerless; daśa-balāṃ = °lān, acc. pl., the ten bala (see 3), LV 343.4 (vs); (3) nt., technically, power, esp. one of the 10 bala of a Tathāgata: often referred to, e.g. SP 67.14; LV 343.4 (above, 2); Mv iii.64.5; Divy 9516; Av i.7.5; hence daśabala, q.v., means a Buddha; so also in Pali, where the ten bala are listed and elaborately ex- plained MN i.69.31 ff.; AN v.33.7 ff.; virtually the same list Mvy 119--129 (all but the tenth are various kinds of jñāna, viz., sthānāsthāna-jñānabalaṃ, karmavipāka-, nānādhimukti-, nānādhātu-, indriyavarāvara- [others °parāpara-, prob. orig.], sarvatragāmanīpratipaj-, sarva- dhyānavimoksasamādhi-samāpattisaṃkleśavyavadānavy- utthāna-, pūrvaniyāsānusmṛti-, cyutyutpatti-, and as No. 10, āśravakṣaya-, but Dharmas and Bbh add jñāna-, balam); Dharmas 76; Bbh 384.18 ff.; Mv i.159.10 ff. (here more variation from the standard; Senart's long note, 502 ff., cites inter alia a list as from Mvy, which differs, notably in the last three items, from our Mvy, which is confirmed by Mironov); see also Burnouf, Lotus, App. XI; no complete list in Sūtrāl., but four of the ten (approx- imatelv = Mvy 1, 2, 7, and 5) listed xx-xxi.51 comm.; [Page398-a+ 71] ten wholly different bala of a Bodhisattva are listed Mvy 759-769, and a still different list Dharmas 75; five bala, (moral) powers, corresponding to the five moral faculties identically named (see indriya 1), Mvy 982--7; Divy 208.8; Dharmas 48; four bala leading to a bodhisattva's cittotpāda, Bbh 13.22, listed 17.8-9 as adhyātma-, para-, hetu-, prayoga-b°; a trividhaṃ balam Dharmas 113, listed (no parallel found); (4) nt., a high number (cf. ojas): Mvy 8032.

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