pratibhāsa (10062)

pratibhāsa
Entry 10062, Page 366, Col. 2

(pratiBAsa, pratiBAsa)
pratibhāsa¦, m. (in this sense unrecorded elsewhere; also used as in Skt. in mgs. appearance, Dbh 16.4, presenta- tion to the mind, LV 397.15), reflected image: (śakrasya… devānāṃ ca) °saḥ saṃdṛśyate sma LV 69.6 (so Tib., gzugs brñan; possibly however only actual, literal appear- ance, as in Skt.); commonly as (mere) semblance, with emphasis on unreality, (kāmaguṇāḥ)…pratibhāsasamā naṭaraṅgasamāḥ. LV 174.6; māyā-marīci-svapnodakacan- dra-pratiśrutkā-pratibhāsa- LV 181.21; 428.14; in similar lists Mvy 854; Dbh 47.14; Dbh.g. 29(55).3; (parallel with chāyā, svapna, pratiśrutkā) Gv 468.21; with things of [Page367-a+ 71] no value, tṛṇa-kāṣṭha-kuḍya-(Dbh adds vartma-)-prati- bhāsopama Dbh 18.14; Śikṣ 201.9 (here said of the body, as also in) Śikṣ 272.10 and (ātma-pratibhāsavat, like an illusion, illusory image, of self) Śikṣ 199.6; saṃsārasāgari anantān darśayase gatīyu (gen. sg.) °sān Gv 253.13 (vs), in the ocean of saṃsāra thou displayest endless semblances of (human) fate(s); in Bbh 282.7 of toys, imitations of real things; in Dbh.g. 40(66).13 of the reflection of sun and moon in water.