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व्योमक (vyomaka)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
व्योमक (gender doubtful) a kind of ornament,
Buddh.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
vyomaka,
(1) nt., some kind of ornament: °kam Mvy 〔6052〕, in a list of ornaments
Tib. mkhaḥ rten, see below
(2) m. and nt., = Tib. mkhaḥ rten, rendered by Das the firmament
sky supporting
a sort of ornament. The mg. ornament has not been found except in Mvy 〔6052〕. Elsewhere the word clearly means a tall palatial building, often supernaturally or magically created
lit., I suppose, reaching to the sky (Skt. vyoman
Tib. would mean sky-support), and usually in the cpd. ratna-vy°, one made of jewels
(nagarasya śṛṅgāṭake) saptaratnavyomakopary asaṃkhyeyaratnamaye bhadrāsane Gv 〔143.8〕
(ekaikasyāṃ rathyāyām ubhayor antayor viṃśati-)vyomaka-koṭīḥ sarvopakaraṇaparipūrṇaiḥ sthāpitā(ḥ) Gv 〔164.21〕 (for the benefit of all creatures)
(mārgaḥ …) ubhayato nānāratnavyomakapaṅktiviracitavyūhaḥ (Bhvr.), tatra keṣucid ratnavyomakeṣu vividharatnaparipūrṇāni ratnabhājanāni sthāpitāny abhūvan yācanakasaṃghapratipādanakārthaṃ, keṣucid vyomakeṣu etc. Gv 〔403.15 ff.〕, down to 〔404.7〕, in numerous repetitions always keṣucid vyomakeṣu (they all contained largesse for beggars)
ratnavyomakāni saṃsthitāny abhūvan, sarveṣu ca ratnavyomaka-mūrdhneṣu koṭīśataṃ devaputrāṇāṃ avasthitam abhūt SP 〔405.4—5〕
ratnavyomakāni 〔410.12〕
sarvasya ca tālavṛkṣasya purato ratnavyomakaḥ saṃsthito 'bhūt, sarvasmiṃś ca ratnavyomake aśītyapsaraḥsahasrāṇi sthitāny abhūvan LV 〔274.5—6〕
ratnavyomakāṃs tasmin 'bhinirmimīte sma, tebhyaś ca ratnavyomakebhya iyaṃ gāthā niścacāra LV 〔293.13—14〕
teṣu kūṭāgāreṣu ratnavyomakeṣu (not ep. of kūṭā° as stated BR 〔6.1486〕
Tib. makes the two coordinate nouns, connected by daṅ) bodhisattvavigrahān abhinirmimīte sma 〔294.13〕.
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
mkha' rten
व्योमक