visabhāga (14302)

visabhāga
Entry 14302, Page 503, Col. 1

(visaBAga, visaBAga)
visabhāga¦, adj. (= Pali id.; cf. sabhāga), different, unlike, discordant, inappropriate, uncongenial: te ca vilak- ṣaṇa te °gāḥ Samādh 19.16 (vs); see s.v. udāra for id. 22.26; °ga-sattvānunayāt Śikṣ 193.17, thru attachment (see [Page503-b+ 71] anunaya) to people of the wrong sort (one may be dissuaded from the solitary life); (sarvasattvānāṃ) °ga-samavadhā- nabhayābhyanta-(read °ātyanta-)-vigamāya Śikṣ 296.9, in order to complete divorce for all creatures from the fear of association with uncongenial (people); °ga-sarvasamava- dhānabhayabhītānāṃ °ga-sarvasamavadhānabhayavini- vartanatāyai Gv 264.16--17; a-visabhāga-varṇā 347.6, I (have come to be) of no discordant external appearance (foll. by avaivarta-varṇā, avikalpa-v°, anīla-v°, etc., long series of chiefly negative adj. ending in -varṇā); anyathā tu °gaṃ bhavati nirmāṇam ātmanaḥ Bbh 64.15, but otherwise (if it were not created in his own image) the magic creation (of a Bodhisattva) will be one inappropriate to himself; visabhāgāśaya (upāya), one of the six upāya (q.v.) of a Bodhisattva, viz. that (method) in which the mental disposi- tion (of the B.) is (represented as being) discordant (with its real nature, in order to influence and help creatures; he may make it appear that he is angry and hostile towards the recalcitrant, tho he never is) Bbh 264.8, cf. 269.14, 17.

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