dhāraṇī (7914)

dhāraṇī
Entry 7914, Page 284, Col. 2

(DAraRI, DAraRI)
dhāraṇī¦ (recorded nowhere except in BHS), magic formula: often consisting of meaningless combinations of syllables (which this Dict. does not record), as e.g. Suv 105.6--8; 106.8, 11, 15 ff.; 108.11 ff.; in Tib. regularly gzuṅs, lit. hold, support, or (Mvy 4239) gzuṅs sṅags (= man- tra, incantation); names of 12 Bodhisattva-dhāraṇī, Mvy 746--758; names of 10 dhāraṇī-maṇḍala Gv 305.18 ff. (not listed in Dict.); a list of dhāraṇī-names (not listed here) Mmk 12.20 ff.; four kinds, ātma-, grantha-, dharma-, mantra-dh° Dharmas 52; another list of four, Bbh 272.13 ff., all defined, dharma-dh° (by which a Bodhisattva is able to remember a book on merely hearing it, without study), artha-dh° (same, except ‘its meaning’ is remembered), mantra-dh° (by which he acquires charms to allay all plagues, īti), bodhisattvakṣāntilābhāya dh°; °ṇī-prati- labdha, having obtained (being in possession of) a dh° SP 263.4; 270.8; Dbh 46.12; sarvabodhisattvadhāraṇīprati- bhānapratilabdhaiḥ LV 2.6; °ṇī-pratilambha, acquisition of dh°, SP 327.5; koṭīnayutaśatasahasraparivartāyā dhā- raṇyāḥ pratilambho 8, acquisition of the dh. which makes (very many) revolutions (an amulet-wheel?); °ṇī-mantra- padāni SP 396.3, talismanic charm-words, or words of dhāraṇīs and mantras; mantra-dhāraṇī-padāni 397.2--3; dhāraṇī-padāni 397.6 ff.; °ṇī-mudrā Mvy 4297; sarva- dharma-dhāraṇy-asaṃpramoṣitaḥ LV 275.6; others, Mvy 782; 4239; Divy 616.14; Kv 84.9; Suv 30.5; 103.1.