पुरुसकार (purusakAra)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishpurusakāra- (= Skt.), in °ra-phalam, one of the 5 phala (q.v.): Mvy 〔2274〕
sc. of karuṇā acc. to Sūtrāl. 〔xvii.31〕, comm., fruit consisting of heroic deed, because it brings happiness to others and penance (austerity, tapas) to oneself, reading in text and comm. tāpaka instead of tāyaka, with Léviʼs note in transl., but Léviʼs transl. (qui éclaire le Moi) seems clearly wrong
it brings pain to oneself, pleasure only to others
tapas surely cannot mean illumination
it is this quality which makes it heroic
in more general sense Bbh 〔102.17〕, expl. 〔103.1—5〕, puruṣakāreṇa yadi vā kṛṣyā … sasyādikaṃ lābhādikaṃ ca phalam abhinirvartayati …
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