pratyeka- (10302)

pratyeka-
Entry 10302, Page 378, Col. 2

(pratyeka, pratyeka-)
pratyeka-¦, adj., chiefly as prior member of cpds. (but cf. pratyekāṃ bodhiṃ Divy 294.10; Av i.99.17; °kāyāṃ bodhau Divy 70.6; 209.16; °kā bodhiḥ Av i.136.7), primarily as in Skt., for a single person, individual, personal; esp. common in pratyekabuddha and other cpds. showing this mg., see the foll. items; in some BHS cpds., in part with equivalents in Pali, this seems to have developed special connotations, possibly owing to the standard con- trast between a pratyekabuddha's rating (far inferior) and that of a real (samyak-saṃ-)buddha. So pratyeka- niraya (Pali pacceka-n°) or °naraka seems clearly to be a place of less severe punishment than a (mahā-, or regular) niraya: note Mv i.103.(7-)9 (yadi kecit, sc. bodhisattvāḥ, kathaṃcid…avīciṃ mahānirayaṃ gacchanti, atha khalu) pratyekanirayaṃ gacchanti (text adds, they are never born as pretas, asuras, etc.); also Mv ii.350.10, 12; pratyeka- narakaḥ Mvy 4944 = Tib. ñi tshe baḥi (ephemeral; single, simple, Jä.; Das adds, very small, minute; animals that do not live more than a day) sems can (creatures) dmyal ba (hell), app. then a hell in which creatures live for a short time; Chin. individual hell; no Jap. rendering; iha pratyeka- narakeṣūpapannāḥ…asmābhir itaś cyutair narakeṣūpa- pattavyaṃ bhaviṣyati (app. for further, more serious punishment) Divy 335.25; bahuśaṅkur nāma pratyekana- rakaḥ Śikṣ 57.1; śramaṇavarṇapratirūpakaṃ nāma pra°- narakaṃ (n. sg.!) Śikṣ 136.10; °narakān Bbh 151.16; °narakaḥ Karmav 53.13-14; (tasminn eva janmani) pratyekasvargaṃ pra°narakaṃ (n. sg.) cānubhūtam 57.2 (refers to story of which 53.13-14 is part); here private, personal heaven and hell seem to fit, since the one who experiences both seems to be a single individual (at a given time; a former inhabitant of the pra°naraka is released as the new one arrives); pratyeka-rājan Mv ii.270.10 (see s.v. pṛthu), contrasting with cakravartin, either minor, subordinate, or individual (belonging to a single land?); [Page379-a+ 71] pratyeka-brahman (= Pali pacceka°, PTSD an independent Brahma), Karmav 34.8, see s.v. Baka (Lévi, devenu un des Brahmas, which can hardly suffice); in Mv i.103.1, most strangely, the words brāhmaṇa and pratyeka-brā° seem used for (the god) Brahman and pratyeka-brahman: (bodhisattvā avaivartikadharmā…never enter an evil existence,) atha khalu brāhmaṇā bhavanti pratyekabrāh- maṇā vā indrāś ca upendrāś ca yakṣādhipatayaś ca yakṣāś ca…(note parallelism between pratyeka-br°, contrasting with br°, and upendra and yakṣa, contrasting with Indra and yakṣādhipati).

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