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अध्याचार (adhyAcAra)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अध्याचार - adhyAcAra -
m.
- region
अध्याचार - adhyAcAra -
m.
- field
अध्याचार - adhyAcAra -
m.
- range
अध्याचार - adhyAcAra -
m.
- reach
अध्याचार - adhyAcAra -
m.
- domain
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अध्य्-आचार
m.
reach, range,
PārGṛ.
Macdonell
English
अध्याचार adhi‿ācāra,
m.
sphere, province.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
adhyācāra, m. (to prec.
= Pali ajjhācāra, regularly in bad and ‘especially in an erotical sense’, CPD), performance, commission (of evil, sin), (sinful) behavior (with gen. of the sin, or in comp.): punar anadhyācārāya Bbh 〔181.12〕, so as not to sin again
sāvadyasya ca dānādikasya kuśalasyādhyācāraḥ 〔289.11〕
āpatty-anadhyācāra- 〔289.22〕
anadhyācāre adhyācāravairamaṇyāṃ tīvraś yogaḥ karaṇīyaḥ Bhīk 〔27b.4〕, serious discipline in not sinning, ceasing from sin, must be undertaken
for this, which seems the correct reading, Bhīk 〔24b.5〕
〔28a.1, 4〕
〔28b.2〕 (by error?) °anadhyācāravairamaṇyāṃ°
but also in MSV 〔iii.8.10〕 anadhyācāram ācarate, engages in sinful behavior, implies adhyācāra = good behavior
Tib. also has a neg., spyad par bya ba ma yin pa spyod pa
but the text is pretty surely wrong, since in 〔9.10〕 the opposite is na adhyācāram ācarate, engages in no sinful behavior.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
अध्याचार m. Bereich, Pār. Gṛhy. 2. 14, 5.