bala-cakravartin (10859)
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Entry 10859, Page 398, Col. 1 -
(balacakravartin, bala-cakravartin)
bala-cakravartin¦, a kind of inferior cakravartin: stands intermediate between (caturdvīpaka-) cakravartin and (rājan) maṇḍalin (q.v.), SP 6.4; 20.6; 362.8; without mention of maṇḍalin, (ordinary) rājānaḥ…balacakra- vartino 'pi rājānaś cakravartino 'pi SP 367.15; balacakra- varti-rājyam distinguished (as inferior) from cakravarti- rājyam, Divy 139.11 = Av i.5.15; (after nṛpatiḥ, simply,) balacakravarty api ca dvīpapatiḥ RP 52.15 (vs); here it seems probable that dvīpapati is not the same as balacakr° but rather = the supreme (caturdvīpaka-)cakravartin. Acc. to Childers and PTSD (without citation of passages), Pali distinguishes cakkavāla-cakkavatti, who ‘rules over the four great continents’, dīpa-cak°, who rules ‘over only one’, and padesa-cak°, who rules ‘over a portion of one’. The BHS terms seem not recorded elsewhere.
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