upavicāra (3783)

upavicāra
Entry 3783, Page 141, Col. 1

(upavicAra, upavicAra)
upavicāra¦, m. (to prec.; in mg. 2 = Pali id., badly defined in PTSD), (1) environs: Mvy 5505 (Tib. ñe ḥkhor) grāmopavicāraḥ; Gv 161.4 (yena suprabhasya) mahāna- garasyopavicāras tenopasaṃkramya; kṣetrāṇi samāni samopavicārāṇi MSV ii.50.9; (2) range, scope; substant- ially = Skt. gocara, see Śikṣ 251.17 s.v. upavicarati: Divy 19.25 udakastabdhikā manuṣyāḥ snānopavicārāḥ (text snāto°),…devoted to bathing (lit. having bathing as their range of interest; cf. note p. 704, where this word is wrongly interpreted); Bhīk 15a.5 tataḥ paścāc (not cpd. with the following as note suggests!) chravaṇopavicāraṃ vijahayya darśanopavicāre kāyam avanāmya…, after that, causing her to leave the range of hearing (of the assembly of nuns, but still) in the range of (their) sight, having made her bow down her body, etc. (what follows is a private examination of the initiate by a specially designated nun; it is to be held in sight of the assembly but out of their hearing); Bbh 37.13 (pāne yāne) vastre alaṃkāropavicāre bhāṇḍopaskare…, in regard to the sphere of ornaments (i.e. things that fall under the head of ornaments); Śikṣ 244.12 aṣṭādaśamana-upavicāraḥ (Bhvr.), having 18 spheres of mental activity (said of man; cf. Pali aṭṭhādasamanopa° MN iii.239.28), listed in Śikṣ 244.18 ff. aṣṭādaśeme… mana-upavicārāḥ…cakṣuṣā rūpāṇi dṛṣṭvā saumana- [Page141-b+ 71] syadaurmanasyopekṣāsthānīyāny upavicarati, on seeing forms with the eye he ranges over (experiences) such (forms) as give rise to pleasure, pain, or indifference; (20) evaṃ śrotrādiṣu vācyam (with the other five senses, incl. manas), so that there are 6 times 3 = 18 in all.

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