abhisaṃskāra

bably.) A vain or worthless act, an idle doing; e. g.

Lalitav.: ye cānanda kiyantaste (v. 1. paśyānanda kiyantaṃ te)

mohaṣuruṣā bahupuṇyābhisaṃskāramabhisaṃskariṣyanti (v. 1. bahva-

puṇyā°°) . ye buddhadharmānpratikṣepsyanti lābhasatkāraślokābhibhūtā

uccāralagnā lābhasatkārābhibhūtā itarajātīyāḥ; or bhagavā-

nāha . evaṃrūpāśca te ānanda sūtrāntāṃ pratikṣepsyanti prativa-

kṣyanti cānekaprakārāṃścānyonyaprakārānabhisaṃskārānabhisaṃskari-

ṣyanti (Burnouf in his Introd. à l'hist. du Buddh. Ind. renders

this word ‘imagination’, but it will seem that it is opposed

in the Lalitav. p. 100. 101. to acts which yield a result or

profit). E. kṛ with sam and abhi, āgama suṭ, kṛt aff. ghañ.

— 1) Bearbeitung , Zubereitung.

— 2) Bildung , Formation.

— 3) Conception , Gedanke , Idee (buddh.).

from Caraka; essentially a Buddhist word; = Pali abhisaṃ-

khāra; see °skaroti, °skṛta), performance, accomplishment:

SP 226.9 (udāraṃ dharmābhi°, noble performance of

dharma); in all meanings often made object of the cognate

verb °skaroti, as Dbh 55.8--9 pāramitābhisaṃskāraṃ

cābhisaṃskaroti, and accomplishes the accomplishment of the

Pāramitās; Dbh 22.23 performances; Bbh 256.25 na

vyañjanābhisaṃskārārthī, not seeking the accomplishment

of the letter (but of the spirit, the true esoteric meaning,

arthārthī); often ṛddhyabhi° (= Pali iddhābhi°) perform-

ance of magic, SP 300.9; 388.6; Divy 161.11; 190.22; 340.11;

Jm 11.6; 153.2; object of the verb °skaroti, perform a

magic performance, LV 182.14; 290.13 f.; Samādh 19.14--15;

Av i.24.3; performance of action, Samādh 22.2 (here

specified as karmābhi°), generally with special reference

to its fruits, good or bad, esp. when modified by, or cpd.

with, words like puṇya, apuṇya, kuśala, pāpa(ka), the Pali

equivalents of which are similarly used; here abhi° often

may be rendered accumulation, piling up (of merit or

demerit), and abhisaṃskaroti accumulates; cf. LV 88.17

pāpakān abhisaṃskārān abhisaṃskariṣyanti with Dbh

48.7 puṇyāpuṇyāneñjyān abhisaṃskārān upacinvanti,

(ignorant persons) accumulate (upa-ci, unambiguous!)

performances (or accumulations, of karman) that are

meritorious, demeritorious, or leading to immovable states

(see aneñjya), suggesting that the LV passage means

really will accumulate evil accumulations (of karman); so

also LV 398.18 duḥkhābhisaṃskāra-mala-impurity due to

the accumulation (hardly performance!) of miseries (thru

karman); puṇyābhi° and kuśalābhi° together, SP 333.3;

348.11; Suv 83.3; puṇyābhi° also SP 337.4; 414.13; AsP

346.8; apuṇyābhi° LV 88.10; kuśalābhi° Śikṣ 190.16;

cittābhisaṃskāra, accomplishment of (proper) thoughts or

state of mind, right mental make up, Divy 90.26 ayaṃ

pradīpas tayā dārikayā mahatā cittābhisaṃskāreṇa

prajvalito (this gives the flame magic power of persistence);

same without citta, Mv iii.391.8--9 parivrājikā…visṛṣṭena

svareṇābhisaṃskāreṇa (with mental preparation or con-

centration, application of mind, fixed determination) svā-

dhyāyaṃ karontī; Mv ii.126.7 sādhu ca suṣṭhu ca abhisaṃ-

skāreṇa, with careful mental preparation, application, deter-

mination (here, to rise up after having fallen down; and

so ii.127.11; 128.16; 130.1--2; the situation is the same as

in LV 254.21 where abhisaṃskurvaṃs occurs, see °ska-

roti); see sābhisaṃskāra, in which abhi° comes close to

this shade of mg.