mṛgadāya, mṛga-dāva (12206)

mṛgadāya, mṛga-dāva
Entry 12206, Page 437, Col. 2

(mfgadAya, mfgadAya, mfga-dAva)
[mṛgadāya,] mṛga-dāva¦, m. (cpd. only recorded in BHS and as miga-dāya in Pali, tho both constituents are Skt.), deer-park, almost exclusively used of the park Ṛṣipatana, °vadana, etc., at Benares, where Buddha is said to have first preached; the form °dāya is never recorded in mss., tho Senart adopts it by em. in Mv i.366.8, where the etym. offered seems naturally to call for it (but cf. LV 19.4 below): mṛgāṇāṃ dāyo dinno mṛgadāve ṛṣipaṭṭane (mss.; Senart em. mṛgadāyo ti ṛṣipattano); the foll. all refer to the Benares park, usually in loc., Ṛṣipatane (°vadane, etc.) mṛgadāve: SP 69.12; LV 18.20; 19.4 (abhayadattāś ca) tasmin mṛgāḥ prativasanti iti…mṛga- dāva iti saṃjñodapādi, cf. Mv i.366.8, above; LV 264.22; 402.3; 404.17; 407.16; 412.9; 413.1; Mv i.161.4, 323.14, 17; 330.4; 331.3; ii.138.2; iii.323.3; 330.17; Divy 464.16; [Page438-a+ 71] Av i.42.9; Mvy 4129; once, in Divy 182.25, of a quite different deerpark called Bhīṣaṇikāvana, in Śuśumā- ragiri.

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