samādhi (16036)

samādhi
Entry 16036, Page 568, Col. 2

(samADi, samADi)
samādhi¦, concentration, trance, in Skt. and Pali recorded only as m.; acc. to Ratnach. only m. in AMg., but also f. in Pkt. acc. to Sheth; here f. and nt. occasion- ally: f., mahāvyūhāya (loc.) sthitaḥ samādhiye (loc.) LV 60.4 (vs; in prec. prose mahāvyūhasya samādher 59.20-21); etatpraveśo (v.l. °śā, so read?) yat samādhiḥ paramā jāyata iti Laṅk 21.4 (prose); -vipañcitāyāḥ (all mss., Régamey em. °citāt, which indeed occurs 19.5, 14) samādher (gen.) Samādh 19.1 (prose); samādhiya (certainly gen.) lābhī Samādh 19.27 (vs); also in ceto-samādhi, q.v., Mv iii.409.12; nt., tāni samādhīni Kv 51.7--8 (prose; line 2 above ete samādhayaḥ). As 8th step in the 8-fold [Page569-a+ 71] Path, samyak-sa°, see mārga. Sa° is 5-fold, ārya-pañcāṅ- gika-samādhi-saṃpannā(ḥ) Mv ii.292.9, of bodhisattvas; acc. to a Pali list (Childers s.v.) the 5 aṅga are pīti-phara- ṇatā, sukha-phar°, ceto-phar°, āloka-phar°, and pacca- vekkhanānimittaṃ; see also s.v. pañcāṅgika (2). Four kinds of sa° Mvy 967--970: chanda-, citta-, vīrya-, mīmāṃ- sā-sa° (= Pali cha°, ci°, viriya-, vīmaṃsā-); another list of four kinds Dharmas 101, somewhat corrupt, cf. the adhimukticaryābhūmi-nāmāni Mvy 896--901, and Sūtrāl. xiv.24--26 with comm.; acc. to Dharmas āloka- (Mvy 898 °ka-labdha, read °lābha, Lévi on Sūtrāl.), vṛtāloka- (read vṛddhā°, cf. Mvy 899 āloka-vṛddhiḥ), ekādaśa-(read ekadeśa-)-pratiṣṭha- (cf. Mvy 900 tattvārthaikadeśānu- praveśaḥ), and ānantarya-sa° (= Mvy 901, misprinted an°). There are a number of lists, some of them very long, of particular samādhis; over 100 in Mvy 505--623, from ‘Prajñāpāramitā’, e.g. ŚsP 1412.8 ff. (these are all included in this Dict.); a very different list AsP 490.8--492.6; nearly 70 (practised by Avalokiteśvara) Kv 51.9 ff.; list of 17, Kv 77.8 ff.; of 37, Kv 92.17 ff.; only four, Śūraṃgama (which occurs frequently), Gagaṇagañja, Vimalaprabha, and Siṃhavikrīḍita, Dharmas 136; 100 Bodhisattva-sa° Gv 36.22 ff. (this term occurs elsewhere in Gv and other works, e.g. Dbh 2.27, of named samādhis practised by Bodhisattvas). Few of the names in these and other lists recur, and most of them are not separately listed in this Dict.; they seem mostly to be ad hoc inventions of the respective authors. For samādhi in relation to samāpatti see the latter.