dharma (7707)

dharma
Entry 7707, Page 277, Col. 1

(Darma, Darma<h>3)
3 dharma¦, f. -ā or (rarely) -ī, adj. (= Skt. dharmya, dhārma; BHS also dhārmya, and as element in comp. dharmī-, dhārmī-, dhārmi-, dharmi-, dharmā-, qq.v.; Pali dhammī, as fem. adj. or as element in comp., as such also dhammi-, only with kathā), religious, only with kathā except for the last citations; on the forms cf. Senart i n. 574 (the regular Skt. dharmya also occurs); most commonly instr. sg.: dharmayā kathayā LV 38.13 (prose, all mss.; Lefm. and Calc. °myayā); Mv i.261.18 (prose, no v.l.); 297.16 (ib.); 309.2 (v.l. dhammā-); 329.14 (v.l.; text with 1 ms. °myayā); 333.19 (v.l. °māyā); 334.5 (v.l. °myā); 334.10, 16; iii.272.11 (v.l. dharmā-); dharmyā (v.l. dhārya-, intending dhārmya-?) kathayā iii.142.4; dharmā- (Senart em. °myā) kathayā iii.143.6; dhārmyayā kathayā Mv i.322.6; dhārmi-kathayā Mv i.282.3 (vs); less often acc. sg., dharmi-kathāṃ Mahāsamāj., Waldschmidt, Kl. Skt. Texte 4, 157.8; dharmī-kathāṃ Mv i.319.3 (v.l. dharmayā kathāṃ!); Divy 241.26 (3 of 4 mss. dhārmī- or dhārmi-), 28 (no v.l.); dhārmyāṃ kathāṃ Mv iii.446.9; dhārmyaṃ dharmacakraṃ Divy 393.23. In MPS 34.30 ff. dharma, f. °mā, occurs many times as adj. with other words than kathā (prāsāda, puṣkariṇī, tālavana); ed. al- ways em. to dhārma, f. °mī.