avacara

Champ. Province; district.

i.397, but only used at end of Bhvr. cpds., having…as

scope; f. °rī; called ‘ts.’ by CPD, but clearly a Buddhist

word, as stated in pw s.v.; found virtually only in Bu.

works and Lexx. in Skt.; otherwise occurs once in Rājat. (?),

and, to be sure, yajñāvacará in MS., see pw s.v.; despite

these rare Skt. occurrences belongs fundamentally to Pali

and BHS, where it is very common); scope, sphere, range

of activity or existence: antarīkṣāv° who live in the atmo-

sphere SP 288.10 (devatāḥ); Mv i.33.5 (śuddhāvāsakāyika

deva); dakṣiṇāvacara, vāmāv°, having the right (left; viz.

part of the womb) as his abiding-place LV 55.5, 6; buddha-

śāsanāv° Śikṣ 214.10 within the scope of the Buddha's

commands (wrongly Bendall); saṃsārāvacarīṃ…sam-

yagdṛṣṭim Śikṣ 316.16, true views regarding the saṃsāra;

saṃskṛtāv° Gv 496.6, things in the realm of the conditioned;

traidhātukāv° Bbh 246.25, belonging to the sphere of the

trai°; caturbhir mārāv° Dbh 54.17, with Rahder, citing

a Jap. source, things belonging to the four Māra-domains,

i.e. the domains of the four Māra, q.v.; atarkāv° Mv

iii.314.2, not within the scope of reasoning (of dharma; so

Pali atakkāv°, of dhamma); akṣudrāv° Mv ii.9.1 (of the

Bodhisattva's mother); ii.1.7 (of the family where the

Bodhisattva is born); antaḥpurāv° Jm 185.24, whose

business was the harem: turagāv° Buddhac. v. 68, groom;

esp. in kāmāv°, rūpāv°, arūpāv° (or ārūpyāv°), of classes

of gods, see under these entries. See also tāḍāvacara.