cetiya (6347)

cetiya
Entry 6347, Page 233, Col. 1

(cetiya, cetiya)
cetiya¦, nt. or (when applied to a person) m. (= Pali id., Skt. caitya), sanctuary, temple; but also, object (of any kind) or person worthy of veneration; this form common in even the prose of Mv, only in vss of other texts; cf. also ceti, cetika. In sense of a shrine (building) cāpālaṃ nāma cetiyaṃ LV 388.12 = Mv iii.306.14 (vs); cāpālaṃ cetiyaṃ Mv i.299.22 (prose), and ff.; cetiyeṣu Mv i.223.11 = ii.26.8 (vs); other forms, ii.354.11; 364.11, 13; 365.20 ff.; iii.50.19; 303.1, etc.; cetiya- (mss. mostly cetiyaṃ-, perhaps read so; one ms. once cetika-)-pūjakaṃ (taṃ kulaṃ) Mv i.198.2 = ii.1.12 (prose), shrine-revering, of the family in which a Bodhisattva is born the last time (LV 24.9 caitya-pūjakaṃ in same passage); of the Buddha himself, sarvalokasya cetiyo Mv ii.349.6; 359.8; iii.273.5, the Revered One of the whole world; lokasya cetiya (voc.) Mv ii.294.14; cetiyaṃ narāṇāṃ ii.296.13; lokacetiyaḥ LV 97.10 (vs), of the Bodhisattva; utpanno iha loki cetiyo divi bhuvi mahitaḥ LV 363.2 (vs), of the same; of the miraculously produced four bowls, dhāret' ime cetiya saṃmataite (so read with v.l., text °matīte) LV 383.12, preserve them; they (shall be) honored as revered objects; cetiyārthe (so with mss.) Mv ii.263.12 (prose), for the purpose of (making it, viz. the spot where Buddha became enlightened) an object of veneration (universal emperors will never master, adhiṣṭhihanti with v.l., that spot except for this purpose).