• Blog
  • Sanskrit
  • About
  • abhinirharati


    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 52, col. 2.
    abhinirharati (= Pali abhinīharati, the definitions

    of which in the Pali Dictt. do not fit BHS usage; cf.

    abhinirhāra, more rarely °haraṇa, n. act. to this verb,

    with about the same range of mgs.; one or two passages

    containing the verb, cited there, are not repeated here),

    (1) produces, accomplishes, effects, realizes (commonly

    something in oneself); na ca tāvad divyaṃ śrotram

    abhinirharati SP 357.4--5 and 8, and yet he does not realize

    (effect, produce in himself) a divine ear (despite the fact

    that he has certain marvelous powers of hearing); SP

    141.11 ff. sarvajñatvaṃ prārthayase yady abhijñā 'bhi-

    nirhareḥ, taṃ cābhijñābhinirhāram araṇyastho vicintaya,

    dharmaṃ viśuddhaṃ tena tvam abhijñāḥ pratilapsyase,

    if thou seekest omniscience, produce (realize, in thyself)

    the abhijñā, and meditate on that realization of the abhijñā,

    abiding in the forest; by this means thou shalt win the pure

    law (and) the abhijñā (or, possibly, dharmaṃ viśuddham

    may be a second object of vicintaya); LV 180.6 praṇi-

    dhānabalaṃ cābhinirharati sma, and he brought to realiz-

    ation the power of his (former) vow; 415.15 pūrvapraṇi-

    dhānābhinirhṛtaṃ (so read with v.l. for text °nihṛtaṃ;

    sc. dharmacakram) produced (realized) as a result of a

    former vow; ṛddhiś cābhinirhṛtā and power of magic was

    produced Divy 48.15; 49.13; (dharmadeśanām, a preaching

    of the law) abhinirhṛtya, having accomplished, Gv 52.9;

    an-abhinirhṛta-sarvajñatājñānair, not having accomplished

    the knowledge of omniscience, Gv 19.21; abhinirhari, aor.,

    produced, effected (kṣetraviyūha) Bhad 34; abhinirhṛta

    (pūjā), accomplished, Bhad 6^2; ppp. nt. used absolutely,

    without expression of noun, abhinirhṛtaṃ mantrayate

    sma Divy 542.19, apparently he (Buddha) considered

    (reflected on) what he had undertaken (? produced, realized?

    or initiated, taken upon himself?); but in parallel passage

    MSV ii.128.3 and 180.5 abhinirhṛta-piṇḍapātaḥ evidently

    means, when alms-food had been produced (entertainment

    provided by a layman), and I suspect a corruption in

    mantrayate of Divy, see s.v. aupadhika (2); with cittam

    as direct object and a dat. of remoter object, LV 344.7

    -vidyā-sākṣātkriyāyai cittam abhinirharati sma, abhinir-

    nāmayati (q.v.) sma, effected (realized, produced in him-

    self) a thought (mind) tending to realization of wisdom (etc.)

    and bent (inclined) it in that direction; so 345.22; similarly

    Mv i.228.12 (parallel to LV 344.7) abhinirharesi, aor.;

    ii.132.16 °harāmi; 283.14 °hare, aor.; (2) takes (a corpse)

    out to cremation or burial (so Skt. nirharati and once

    abhinir°, see pw 7.257; apparently Pali abhinīharati is

    not so used; cf. abhinirhāra 2): Divy 264.16, 23 abhinir-

    hṛtā, ppp.; MSV ii.126.20 °haratha; 127.3 ff.