-balādhāna (10874)

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|bhs-entry=(balADAna, -balADAna)<br><b>-balādhāna</b>¦, nt. (Skt. bala plus Skt. ādhāna, on this use of which see pw s.v. ādhāna 6), <i>assumption, attainment,</i> <i>of</i> (usually some particular) <i>power</i> (said of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas): Mv i.134.11--12 kṛtaniścaya-balādhānāś ca bhavanti (Bodhisattvas); SP 316.1 śṛṇudhvam idam evaṃrūpaṃ mamādhiṣṭhāna-balādhānam; 414.4 (bodhi- sattvasya) jñānabalādhānena puṇyabalādhānena ca (as manifested in his ‘act of truth’, satyādhiṣṭhāna); 420.7 evaṃ jñānabalādhānaprāptaḥ sa…bodhisattvo bhavi- ṣyati, <i>this B. will be thus arrived at attainment of the power</i> <i>of knowledge</i>; 426.6-7 tathāgatabalādhānena, <i>by the T.'s</i> <i>acquisition of (the) power(s) (appropriate to him)</i>.
|dictionary=Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary
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