Dictionaries/Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary/abhinirhāra (1528)

abhinirhāra
Entry 1528, Page 52, Col. 2

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abhinirhāra¦, m. (= Pali abhinīhāra; acc. to CPD generally earnest wish, synonym of paṇidhāna, patthanā; BHS shows no such usage; even when associated with praṇidhi or °dhāna it is clearly different in mg.; cf. abhinir- harati, under which will be found another case or two of this noun); (1) production, accomplishment, effectuation, undertaking, realization (particularly of something in one- self); Lévi, Sūtrāl. iv.12, production, réalisation (Chin. accomplishing). Rarely used of production of physical things, as in Sukh 27.15 ff. of garments, flowers, etc., also music. That it is not, in BHS, equivalent to praṇi- dhāna is illustrated by Gv 5.20 pūrva-bodhisattva- praṇidhānābhinirhāraṃ ca saṃdarśayet, and shall exhibit the accomplishment (performance) of former B. vows; followed in 22 by pūrva-bodhisattva-caryā-maṇḍalā- bhinirhāra-paripūriṃ ca saṃdarśayet, and other similar cpds.; Dbh 14.10 evaṃrūpāṇi mahāpraṇidhānāni mahāvya- vasāyān mahābhinirhārān abhinirharati, he undertakes such great vows, resolutions, undertakings; accomplishment or production of samādhi, Bbh 141.23 (teṣām, sc. samā- dhīnām, abhi°); 175.11 (samādhy-abhi°); of a course of [Page053-a+ 71] conduct, caryā, Dbh 17.15; Mmk 23.5; SP 68.5; of mental states such as compassion, Dbh 13.17; of preaching, (dharma-)deśanā, SP 186.8 (here dharmadeśanābhi° virtually = a kind of upāyakauśalya); 317.13 (preceded in comp. by upāyakauśalya); upāyakauśalya-parigrahā- bhi° Laṅk 15.11, realization of the possession of skillful devices; upāyakauśalya-jñānābhi° SP 82.10 production of (effectuation, setting in motion of) knowledge of skillful devices; kṛtasaṃmodanakathāsatkārāsanābhinirhāraś ca Jm 147.24--25, and after making the accomplishment of return greetings etc.; gāthābhi° production (= recitation) of verses SP 329.9; Samādh 19.37 (see Régamey's transl. and note); nānābhinirhāra-, various undertakings (ac- complishments, initiations of activities for religious pur- poses) SP 41.2, 12; 54.2, 4; 71.7; citta-nagara-duryodhana- durāsadatābhi- (text erroneously °bhir)-nirhāra-prayukta Śikṣ 123.4, zealous to produce (effect) the state of impreg- nability and inviolability in the city of the mind; in Dbh 55.11 ff., repeatedly, -abhinirhāraṃ cābhinirharati, pro- duces the effect (accomplishes the accomplishment) of (various religiously desirable ends); Mvy 593 ākārābhi°, as n. of a samādhi, effectuation of forms; 758 buddha- kāya-varṇa-pariniṣpatty-abhinirhāra, adj., as n. of a dhāraṇī; in Dbh 45.17 read maharddhi-vikurvaṇābhinir- hāra-nānopacāra- (text °ṇānopa°) -kriyāprayogair, pro- duction of great magic (and?) miracles; (2) funeral obsequies (cf. abhinirharati, 2; not in this sense in Pali): Av i.272.1 śarīrābhi°.