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उपविचार (upavicAra)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
उपविचार upavicAra
m.
neighbourhood
उपविचार upavicAra
m.
environs
Apte
English
उपविचारः [upavicārḥ], Envirous, neighbourhood.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
उप-वि-चार
m.
environs, neighbourhood,
L.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
upavicāra, m. (to prec.
in mg. 2 = Pali id., badly defined in PTSD),
(1) environs: Mvy 〔5505〕 (Tib. ñe ḥkhor) grāmopavicāraḥ
Gv 〔161.4〕 (yena suprabhasya) mahānagarasyopavicāras tenopasaṃkramya
kṣetrāṇi samāni samopavicārāṇi MSV 〔ii.50.9〕
(2) range, scope
substantially = Skt. gocara, see Śikṣ 〔251.17〕 s.v. upavicarati: Divy 〔19.25〕 udakastabdhikā manuṣyāḥ snānopavicārāḥ (text snāto°), devoted to bathing (lit. having bathing as their range of interest
cf. 〔note p. 704〕, where this word is wrongly interpreted)
Bhīk 〔15a.5〕 tataḥ paścāc (not cpd. with the following as note suggests!) chravaṇopavicāraṃ vijahayya darśanopavicāre kāyam avanāmya …, after that, causing her to leave the range of hearing (of the assembly of nuns, but still) in the range of (their) sight, having made her bow down her body, etc. (what follows is a private examination of the initiate by a specially designated nun
it is to be held in sight of the assembly but out of their hearing)
Bbh 〔37.13〕 (pāne yāne) vastre alaṃkāropavicāre bhāṇḍopaskare …, in regard to the sphere of ornaments (i.e. things that fall under the head of ornaments)
Śikṣ 〔244.12〕 aṣṭādaśamana-upavicāraḥ (Bhvr.), having 18 spheres of mental activity (said of man
cf. Pali aṭṭhādasamanopa° MN 〔iii.239.28〕), listed in Śikṣ 〔244.18 ff.〕 aṣṭādaśeme mana-upavicārāḥ cakṣuṣā rūpāṇi dṛṣṭvā saumanasyadaurmanasyopekṣāsthānīyāny [Page141-b] upavicarati, on seeing forms with the eye he ranges over (experiences) such (forms) as give rise to pleasure, pain, or indifference
(20) evaṃ śrotrādiṣu vācyam (with the other five senses, incl. manas), so that there are 6 times 3 = 18 in all.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
*उपविचार m. °Anfangstrainierung, Kauṭ. 137, 1 v.u.
138, 2. 6. 7.
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
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