dharmāloka (7867)

dharmāloka
Entry 7867, Page 281, Col. 2

(DarmAloka, DarmAloka)
dharmāloka¦, m., light of (? on) the doctrine; acc. to Sūtrāl. xiv. 26 comm., āloka iti dharmanidhyānakṣānter etad adhivacanam, āloka is a synonym for ‘readiness to meditate on the doctrine’ (but generally the word seems to be an appositional karmadh.): (avidyāmohāndhakārasya) mahāntaṃ °kaṃ kuryāṃ LV 205.3, may I make the great light of the doctrine against the darkness of ignorance and delusion; dharmālokasyādarotpādanārthaṃ LV 395.16, to produce respect for the light of the doctrine; (?) bodhisat- tvānāṃ…mahanto dharmāloko (but mss. dharma-loko) kṛto bhaviṣyati āśvāso ca datto bhavati Mv ii.294.5 (as a result of a requested statement by the Buddha on how he attained enlightenment); (-Kāraṇḍavyūhaṃ nāma) dharmālokaṃ nāma deśayitvā Kv 38.3; °ka-praveśa, (means of) ingress into the light of the doctrine (= °ka- mukha, see next) Dbh 38.1, where ten such are listed, viz. sattva-dhātuvicāraṇālokapraveśair, and (substituting for sattva in the same cpd.) loka-, dharma-, ākāśa-, vijñāna-, kāma-, rūpa-, ārūpya-, udārāśayādhimukti-, and māhāt- myāśayādhimukti-. See under next.