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अभयगिरिविहार (abhayagirivihAra)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अभयगिरिविहार abhayagirivihAra
m.
 Buddhist monastery on the abhayagiri
अभयगिरिविहार abhayagirivihAra
m.
 Buddhist monastery on the abhayagiri
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अ-भय—गिरि-विहार a
m.
 Buddhist monastery on the Abhayagiri.
अ-भय—गिरि-विहार b
m.
N.
 of a monastery,
Inscr.
Goldstucker
English
अभयगिरिविहार Karmadh. m. (-रः) The Buddhist mona-
stery Abhayagiri in Anurādhapura which is said to have
been founded by the king Vartagāmani, in commemoration
of a taunt held out to him by a Nighaṇṭa Brāhmaṇa of the
name of Giri, when he fled after an unsuccessful encounter
with the Damila, the king making a vow to build a mona-
stery if he should be victorious
he called it Abhayagiri
from the name of the Brāhmaṇa (Giri) and the surname
Abhaya he had assumed himself. (Comp. Turnour's Mahāv.
p. 206 and Lassen's Ind. Alt. II. p. 433.) The monastery is
famed for the sect which inhabited it (see अभयगिरिवासिन्)
and a tope erected in it. (Comp. Wilson's Ariana Antiqua
p. 39 and Lassen's Ind. Alt. II. p. 1008.) E. अभय-गिरि
and विहार.