yad uta (12391)

yad uta
Entry 12391, Page 443, Col. 2

(yaduta, yad uta)
yad uta¦ (not recorded elsewhere; uta not recorded in Pali), (1) = yad idam (1), namely, to wit (in Tib. on LV 392.11 = ḥdi lta ste, which Das renders by tad yathā, yad idaṃ, for example, for instance, to wit, such as, viz.; [Page444-a+ 71] all these could be used in rendering yad uta as well as yad idam): SP 109.1 katamābhis tisṛbhir (sc. duḥkhatā- bhiḥ)? yad uta duḥkhaduḥkhatayā (etc.); Dbh 77.4 kata- māś catasro (sc. pratisaṃvidaḥ)? yad uta (they are then listed); LV 25.7 (katamair dvātriṃśatā, sc. guṇākāraiḥ?) yad uta (list follows); SP 18.10; 124.3 (ekaraso yad uta vimuktiraso…); LV 269.15 (kusumāni jale kṣipanti sma, yad uta bodhisattvasya pūjākarmaṇe, namely, to do homage to the B.); LV 392.11; 416.22; Divy 45.1 (eṣo 'gro…yad uta pūrṇaḥ), and similarly 49.18; (dharmatā khalu…) yad uta daśāvaśyakaraṇīyāni bhavanti Divy 150.17, it is the normal condition…viz., that…; similarly Jm 88.4; 98.16; dharmadeśanāṃ karoti, yad utedaṃ duḥkham (etc.) Divy 198.5; āyuḥpramāṇaṃ yad utāśītivarṣāṇi Suv 6.6 and 9.12; others, Divy 208.7; 320.26, etc.; Av often e.g. i.211.8; Bbh 6.22 etc.; Bhīk 4a.3; Gv 501.9; Kv 66.4; (2) perhaps = yad idam (2), q.v., giving a reason, because, of course (but perhaps not to be separated from 1): SP 414.3 sa bāhur yathāpaurāṇaḥ (ed. as two words) saṃ- sthito 'bhūd, yad uta tasyaiva bodhisattvasya…jñāna- balādhānena, (namely?) because (of course?) of that same B's attainment of power of knowledge; (3) once or twice yad uta seems, I feel, to be used with a slightly different connotation, and that too, with implication of especially, particularly: Av ii.142.17, repeated 143.6, (āścaryaṃ bha- danta yāvac chāstuḥ śrāvakāṇāṃ cārthenārthaḥ padena padaṃ vyañjanena) vyañjanaṃ saṃsyandate sameti, yad utāgrapadaiḥ, it is a marvel, Lord, how the teacher and his disciples agree and are identical, meaning with meaning, word (or topic) with word, letter with letter, and that too with the highest words (most sublime topics); SP 77.2 (it was no deceit, when three kinds of vehicles had been promised by the man to his sons in the burning house, that) ekayānāni dattāni, yad uta mahāyānāni, he gave them single vehicles, and (especially) that too (Kern, and those; but Burnouf c'est à dire, = 1 above) great vehicles.