kāya (4724)

kāya
Entry 4724, Page 177, Col. 2

(kAya, kAya)
kāya¦, normally m. (= Skt., but sometimes nt., LV 289.20, vs, naivāsanāt kāyam ataś caliṣyate, my body shall by no means move from this seat; Mv i.44.4 hāyiṣyati asura- kāyaṃ, n. sg.; ii.124.2--3 idam eva kāyaṃ, acc. sg., twice; SP 52.8, vs, avanāmitaṃ kāyu, n. sg.; but WT with ms. Ḱ °taḥ): (1) sometimes, as in Pali, body used instead of Skt. tvac as term for the organ of touch: Mvy 2036 kāyāyatanam; 2053 kāya-dhātuḥ; its object is spraṣṭavya, q.v.; (2) as in Pali (Skt. Lex.), body in the sense of group, collection, mass, crowd, totality: usually at the end of cpds., as jana-k°, mahato janakāyasyārthāya, for the welfare of a great crowd (? the vast mass or totality) of people, SP 41.1; 81.2; 162.10; mahatā janakāyena parivṛtaṃ, by a large retinue… SP 103.6; taṃ ca mahāntaṃ janakāyaṃ… adhyabhāṣat LV 124.13; mahājana-kāya = the body of the populace (contrasting with kings and great men), Mv i.37.1; 198.15; ii.2.17; and probably LV 131.22; sarva eva Jambudvīpanivāsī janakāya Divy 59.22; bala-kāya, body of troops, army, vārāṇasī (so read) caturaṅgena balakāyena veṣṭitā (so with v.l.) Mv ii.82.11; caturaṅgeṇa balakāyena LV 14.22; caturaṅga-bala-kāyaṃ (mss. vara for bala) saṃnahitvā hastikāyaṃ aśvak° rathak° pattik° saṃna- hitvā Mv i.30.6; caturaṅgabalakāyo ii.111.7; (hastyaśvara- tha)padāti-balakāya-samanvitaḥ LV 22.15; mahāntaṃ hastikāyaṃ…pattikāyam avahāya Mv ii.161.5 f.; patti- kāya-parivṛtaḥ Divy 618.24; sattvakāye, in the (whole) mass of creatures, Mv i.158.10; 159.5; rājño Māndhātasya putrapautra-kāye napta-pranapti-kāye (so read) bahūni rājasahasrāṇi Mv i.348.9, in the body (mass) of King M.'s sons, grandsons, and remoter descendants there were many thousands of kings (misunderstood by Senart; fem. forms impossible); tailavyāmiśro gandhakāyo (a collection of perfume, i.e. of sweet-scented substances) dattaḥ (at a stūpa) Av i.362.1; sa paśyati mahāprajño dharmakāyam aśeṣataḥ SP 143.3 (vs),…the whole mass of conditions of existence (cf. sarva-dharmān 143.1); in the same sense, māyāsvapnasvabhāvasya dharmakāyasya kaḥ stavaḥ Laṅk 22.12 (vs); (visaṃvādakaṃ sarvam eva) dharma- kāyaṃ Mv ii.147.18, disappointing (is) the whole mass of conditions of existence; probably also, dharmakāyajñāna- śarīratvān…LV 428.21--22, because his body contains (or consists of) knowledge of the whole mass of states of existence (he is called a Great Tree); otherwise Foucaux; prob. also, na rājan kṛpaṇo loke dharmakāyena saṃspṛśet Divy 560.2 (vs),…with the mass of material conditions (surely not ‘spiritual body’ with Index); acc. to LaV-P. AbhidhK. vii.81, n. 1, ‘souvent dharmakāya = le corps des écritures = le deuxième ratna’; I have not found this usage; he refers to Bodhicaryāv. i.1, where I see no such mg. in the word; to Divy 396 (? line 28, śarīraṃ…dharmamayaṃ); and to Przyluski, Açoka, 359, where it does not have that meaning but contrasts with rūpakāya, q.v.; sparśa-kāya, see this; nāma-kāyaḥ, collection of ‘names’ = words Mvy 1996, vyañjana-k° 1997, c. of ‘letters’, sounds, or syllables (= akṣara), and pada-k° 1998, c. of phrases, expressions, sentences (these terms explained in LaVallée Poussin, AbhidhK. ii.238--40; Tib. renders kāva bv tshogs, mass, [Page178-a+ 71] quantity, and pada, q.v. by tshig, which means both word and speech, utterance); sometimes, but more rarely, used out of comp. with modifying adj. or appositional noun, as, tuṣite kāye Mv i.199.7 = ii.3.5; (parihāsyante…) asurāḥ kāyāḥ, divyāḥ kāyāḥ paripūriṃ gamiṣyanti LV 401.6; hāyetsu(ḥ) āsurā kāyā, divyā kāyā abhivardhetsu Mv i.330.9 (cf. on the other hand, hāyiṣyati asura-kāyaṃ, nara-maru-saṃgho vivardhanti Mv i.44.4). On the three ‘bodies’ (kāya) of a Buddha, dharma-, saṃbhoga-, nirmāṇa-k°, see these words; Régamey, Samādh. p. 23, with refs. They hardly occur in the texts included in this work. A little better known is the two-fold contrast of dharma- with rūpa-k°, qq.v.