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अभयगिरिवासिन् (abhayagirivAsin)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अभयगिरिवासिन् abhayagirivAsin
m.
dwelling on the mountain of safety
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अ-भय—गिरि-वासिन्
m.
pl.
‘dwelling on the mountain of safety’,
N.
of a division of Kātyāyana's pupils,
Buddh.
Goldstucker
English
अभयगिरिवासिन् Tatpur. m. (-सी) An inhabitant of the
Buddhist monastery Abhayagiri
अभयगिरिवासिनः is the
name of a Buddhist sect, one of three pretending to be
founded by Kātyāyana, and one of the four divisions of
the Vaibhāṣikas, (the three other divisions having for
founders Rāhula, Upāli and Kāśyapa)
for the two other
sects founded by Kātyāyana see महाविहारवासिन् and
जेतवनीय. Comp. अभिधर्म. (See Burnouf's Lotus de la bonne
loi II. p. 357 and Lassen's Ind. Alt. II. pp. 457. 1005. 1086.)
E. अभयगिरि and वासिन्.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Abhayagirivāsin, m. pl., n. of a school: Mvy 〔9098〕.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
अभयगिरिवासिन् , Mahāvy. 275.