mālā-vihāra (12041)

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mālā-vihāra
Entry 12041, Page 431, Col. 2
(mAlAvihAra, mAlA-vihAra)
mālā-vihāra¦, m., acc. to Tib. (on Śikṣ) phreṅ baḥi khaṅ, garland-building: Mv ii.367.3 (vs, = Śikṣ 300.8) °raṃ kṛtvāna (Śikṣ kṛtvā ca) lokanāthasya dhātuṣu, constructed at a place where relics of Buddha are kept. But Lévi, Karmav 63 n. 2, argues, perhaps rightly, that mālā here means not garland but pavilion (on top of a building); see mālā; he finds the same word in the Bhvr. candana- māla, see -māla.

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