cārikā (6214)

cārikā
Entry 6214, Page 228, Col. 2

(cArikA, cArikA)
cārikā¦ (in mg. 2 = Pali id.), (1) = cari, q.v., course of conduct, esp. a religious course leading to enlightenment, pursued by Bodhisattvas; repeatedly used in prose, hence not exclusively m.c.; usually with a form of the cognate verb carati: caranti ete varabodhi-cārikāṃ SP 131.12 (vs); puruṣottama-cārikām acari, so bodhisattva-caryāṃ (note use together of the synonymous forms cārikā and caryā!)…saṃsarati Mv i.3.9 (prose); duṣkara-cār° (cf. duṣkara-cariṃ LV 276.1) Mv ii.130.12 (°kāye, instr., prose); 237.17 (°kāṃ carantaṃ, prose); bodhisattva- cārikāṃ caranto ii.356.19 (prose); caranto bodhicārikāṃ ii.362.20 (vs); jinacārikā(ye) ii.375.12 (vs); carann utta- mabodhicārikāṃ RP 50.2 (vs); cariṣye varabodhicārikāṃ Sādh 29.7 (vs); otari cārika- (a m.c.)-kalpa-samudrāṃ Bhad 29; bodhisattvacārikā Śikṣ 316.18 (prose) and °kaṃ (prob. misprint for °kāṃ) carantaṃ Gv 423.22 (prose); praṇidhisi cārīkām (ī m.c. for i) asamām (referring to the course of Bodhisattvas) Gv 57.15 (vs); saṃsāra- cārikaiṣā, naiṣā bodhisattvacārikā AsP 329.15 (prose); eka-cārikā Laṅk 291.13 (vs), the solitary religious course (of Pratyekabuddhas); (2) journey, wandering (also = Skt. caryā, which varies with this in the same passages; Pali cārikā id.), commonly as object of carati or another verb of going; the place of the journey is either in the loc. or preceding in comp.: magadheṣu cārikāṃ prakrāmat LV 246.2 (prose), cf. magadheṣu caryāṃ (best ms. cārikāṃ) caran 246.6; caryāṃ caran kāśiṣu janapadeṣu cārikāṃ (v.l. caryāṃ) prakrāmat 405.2--3; janapadeṣu cārikāṃ prakramet(su) Mv i.231.3 (prose), set out on a journey over the countryside; cārikāṃ caramāṇo 6; gacchantam… cārikāṃ 234.14 (vs); janapadacārikāṃ caramāṇo 244.12 (prose); kāśīṣu cārikāṃ prakrāmi 323.10 (prose); maga- dheṣu °kāṃ caramāṇo iii.47.10 (prose); °kāṃ pratipanna- sya, embarked on a journey, 94.3 (vs); janapada-cārikā Mvy 9355; Kauśaleṣu janapadeṣu °kāṃ caran Divy 80.11; °kāṃ cariṣyati 92.8; Buddha-cārikā, the journey of a Buddha, 92.25; 93.2; śmaśānacārikāṃ gantu(ṃ) 267.8, 9, to go on a trip to a cemetery; dakṣiṇāgiriṣu janapade °kāṃ caritvā Av i.3.3; janapadacārikāṃ caran RP 5.2 (prose); (Pāñcāleṣu janapadeṣu) janapadacārikāṃ cara- māṇo Suv 202.3 (prose); also used of journeys to other worlds or states of existence, inferior or superior: niraya- cārikāṃ gacchati Mv i.4.15 (prose) went on a trip to (the) hell(s); caranto narakacārikāṃ 5.2; so also tiracchāna- cārikāṃ gacchati 27.2, and caranto tir° °kāṃ 4, a trip among the animal-existences; pretacārikāṃ 28.3, 5; asura-c° 30.1, 3; deveṣu °kāṃ gacchati 30.16; 31.16; and with acc. instead of loc., devāṃ (= °ān) cār° ga° 33.4, went on a trip to the gods; deveṣu cārikāṃ caramāṇena Mv ii.190.17; naraka-cārikāṃ carataḥ Av i.241.9, preta-c° c° 10; (3) cārikā or cārakā, stream, course (of a river): nadīcārikām avatīrṇaḥ, went down into a river-stream, Av ii.86.3; nadīcārakāyāḥ (ms., Speyer em. °cārik°) pāre vṛkṣaḥ 4; nadīcārikām uttīrṇaḥ, crossed a river-stream, ii.116.13; nadyāṃ cārakāyāṃ (so Speyer; ms. naṃdyā cārakāyā; read nadyāś, or, semi-MIndic, nadyā, gen. ?) patitas, fell into the stream of a river, or if nadyāṃ is correct, into a river, into its stream, ii.181.17. [Page229-a+ 71]

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