Dictionaries/Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary/abhisamaya (1673)

abhisamaya
Entry 1673, Page 58, Col. 1

(aBisamaya, aBisamaya)
abhisamaya¦, m. (= Pali id., in both mgs.; to abhi- sameti, q.v.), (1) comprehension, clear understanding; (spiritual) realization, intuitive grasp (of religious verities), in Pali especially grasp of the Law (dhamma) or the four noble truths (sacca); Tib. mṅon par rtogs pa, clear com- prehension; cf. Stcherbatskoy, Abhisamayālaṃkāra (Bibl. Bu. 23), p.iii, ‘abhisamaya means direct intuition of the Absolute. Here it means the Path of attaining that in- tuition…a synonym of mārga;’ often in comp. with that which is comprehended: dharmābhi° Mv i.261.19; SP 328.11; Sukh 42.16; satyābhi° (as in Pali, above) Bbh 38.12; Divy 340.8 and 355.20 (in these two saha, preceding satyā°, should be taken as a separate word); Ud xx.2; āryasatyānām abhisamayāya Divy 654.26; jñānābhi° RP 34.12; prāpty-abhi° ŚsP 615.17 ff. (on prāpti cf. AbhidhK. La V-P. ii.179 et passim); yogābhi° Laṅk 12.1; mārgābhi° LV 38.5 (realization, intuitive comprehension, of the Path); (śrāvaka-, pratyekabuddha-, and tathāgata-) yānābhi° Mvy 1261-3 (comprehension of the vehicles); of the inferior intuitions or realizations of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas Gv 505.15; Dbh 62.19; 96.28--29; used absolutely, some- thing like enlightenment or spiritual realization in general, Laṅk 10.12; Dbh 63.13; Dbh.g. 54(80).10; listed among synonyms of nirvāṇa Mvy 1731; abhisamayāntika (see antika), ending in abhi° (realization? enlightenment? nirvāṇa?) Mvy 1208; 6891; abhisamayādhigamajñāna- Laṅk 218.6, 7 (Suzuki enlightenment = an intuitive under- standing, for abhisamaya); (2) any of the three collective conversions of crowds of disciples, accomplished by Buddha; [Page058-b+ 71] so (and also dhammābhi°) in Pali, see CPD: Mv i.250.16; 251.2.