kṣaṇa (5338)

kṣaṇa
Entry 5338, Page 198, Col. 1

(kzaRa, kzaRa)
kṣaṇa¦, m. (= Pali khaṇa), birth under favorable conditions. There are 8 akṣaṇa (q.v.) but only 1 kṣaṇa, viz., birth as a man in the ‘middle region’, where a Buddha is to be expected, at a time when he is born, and with the mental capacity to assimilate his doctrine (Pali AN iv.227.8 ff.): Mv ii.363.4 kṣaṇaṃ (acc.) ekaṃ buddhotpādaṃ suśo- bhanam; Suv 41.(13--)14(--15) (bhavantu aṣṭākṣaṇavīti- vṛttāḥ, so read) āsādayantu kṣaṇarājam (the supreme favorable birth) uttamaṃ, (labhantu buddhehi samāgamaṃ sadā); Śikṣ 2.4; 114.15 kṣaṇasampad, the good luck of (this) favorable birth; 282.1 kṣaṇa-gati-pratilabdhena having obtained the lot of…; Kv 18.19 sarvakṣaṇopapannāḥ sattvā(ḥ), all creatures born under (the described) favorable conditions, cf. Sūtrāl. xiii.10 kṣaṇopapatti.(In Mv ii.378.1 Senart kṣaṇāṃś ca, but keep kṣaṇāc ca with mss., and instantly.) Once, however, kṣaṇa in this sense seems to be [Page198-b+ 71] pluralized: Mv ii.392.5--6 so akṣaṇāni parivarjayitvā, kṣaṇā ca tasya bhavanti viśiṣṭā (but mss. bhavati viśiṣṭo, taking kṣaṇā as n. sg., § 8.24); the same vs Śikṣ 306.1 even makes 8 kṣaṇa, obviously as mechanical pendant to the 8 akṣaṇa; so akṣaṇaṃ vai vijahāti sarvaṃ, aṣṭakṣa- ṇāś cāsya viśiṣṭa bhonti.This is a secondary distortion. In LV 327.12 dullabho 'dya labhitaḥ kṣaṇavaro amṛto, today has been obtained the immortal (nectar-like?) excellent favorable birth that is hard to obtain, followed by 13… varjitā (a)kṣaṇaduḥkhā asurasurapure, avoided the pains of unfavorable births in the cities of asuras and gods; evidently both kṣaṇa and akṣaṇa (the latter includes birth as a god!) are used in their standard meanings; but here the use of kṣaṇa is not strictly logical, since the Bodhisattva himself is speaking! [In Divy 76.25; 465.23 read kṣūṇa, q.v.]

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