chanda, (1) (6387)

chanda, (1)
Entry 6387, Page 234, Col. 2

(Canda, Canda)
chanda, (1)¦ m. (rarely nt., LV 262.8), = Skt. and Pali id., used in both bad and good sense; more often in bad, desire, whim, caprice, passion, see e.g. acchanda- gāmin; in good sense, zeal, a characteristic of a Bodhi- sattva or a Buddha; often associated with vīrya: asti me (sc. Bodhisattvasya) chando 'sti vīryaṃ LV 239.1, same passage as: mahyaṃ pi khalu asti chando…Mv ii.118.10; asti chandaṃ (n. sg.! one ms. °as) tathā vīryaṃ LV 262.8 = asti chando ca vīryaṃ ca Mv ii.239.9 (vs; note chandaś ca LV 262.5, just above); nāsti chandasya hāniḥ Mv i.160.12 (one of the 18 āveṇika Buddha-dharma); (āryasmi- taṃ, of the Bodhisattva) chandopastabdhaṃ Mv ii.280.16, based on zeal; janemi chandaṃ Sukh 9.6; (2) (m.; this mg. in Pali, see PTSD s.v. 2), approval, consent, as object of dā-, give: dadāti…tathāgataś chandam…SP 248.8, the Tathāgata (who sends this message; not Śākyamuni; neither Burnouf nor Kern understands the passage) gives his consent (to the opening of this stūpa); chandārhibhyaś [Page235-a+ 71] (= Pali chandāraha, see esp. Vin. i.318.11, one who has the right to a valid vote) ca chandenānītā bhavanti (are agreed in consenting) MSV ii.210.3; (3) n. of Buddha's charioteer, oftener called Chandaka (4), q.v.: LV 133.6; Divy 391.24; both times in vss, the -ka possibly dropped m.c., cf. § 22.24 (note that Chandaka is the form used in prose two lines before in Divy); but in MSV iii.28.8 ff. (prose) also Chanda, = Pali Channa, assumed in DPPN to be this same person; here as in Vin. ii.21.7 ff. subjected to utkṣepaṇīya; MPS 29.15; the corresponding name in Pali is Channa; (4) n. of one of the ṣaḍvārgika monks: Mvy 9474.

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