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अवचर (avacara)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अवचर avacara
m.
 dominion or sphere or department of
Apte
English
अवचरः [avacarḥ], (= परिचारकः) A groom
तुरगावचरं स बोधयित्वा Bu. Ch.5.68.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अव-चर
m.
 the dominion or sphere or department of (in comp. See कामावचर, ध्यानाव्°,
&c.
 ),
Buddh.
 (cf. तालावचर and यज्ञावचर॑.)
Monier Williams 1872
English
अव-चर, अस्, आ, अम्, going or moving down or
in or upon
(अस्), m. place of descent, road, field of
action.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
अवचरः
पुं*
 - अव+चर+अच्
साईस
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
-avacara (= Pali id.
orig. noun, cf. Senart Mv 〔i.397〕, but only used at end of Bhvr. cpds., having … as scope
f. °rī
called ‘ts.’ by CPD, but clearly a Buddhist word, as stated in pw s.v.
found virtually only in Bu. works and Lexx. in Skt.
otherwise occurs once in Rājat. (?), and, to be sure, yajñāvacará in MS., see pw s.v.
despite these rare Skt. occurrences belongs fundamentally to Pali and BHS, where it is very common)
scope, sphere, range of activity or existence: antarīkṣāv° who live in the atmosphere SP 〔288.10〕 (devatāḥ)
Mv 〔i.33.5〕 (śuddhāvāsakāyika deva)
dakṣiṇāvacara, vāmāv°, having the right (left
viz. part of the womb) as his abiding-place LV 〔55.5, 6〕
buddhaśāsanāv° Śikṣ 〔214.10〕 within the scope of the Buddhaʼs commands (wrongly Bendall)
saṃsārāvacarīṃ … samyagdṛṣṭim Śikṣ 〔316.16〕, true views regarding the saṃsāra
saṃskṛtāv° Gv 〔496.6〕, things in the realm of the conditioned
traidhātukāv° Bbh 〔246.25〕, belonging to the sphere of the trai°
caturbhir mārāv° Dbh 〔54.17〕, with Rahder, citing a Jap. source, things belonging to the four Māra-domains, i.e. the domains of the four Māra, q.v.
atarkāv° Mv 〔iii.314.2〕, not within the scope of reasoning (of dharma
so Pali atakkāv°, of dhamma)
akṣudrāv° Mv 〔ii.9.1〕 (of the Bodhisattvaʼs mother)
〔ii.1.7〕 (of the family where the [Page071-a] Bodhisattva is born)
antaḥpurāv° Jm 〔185.24〕, whose business was the harem: turagāv° Buddhac. 〔v.68〕, groom
esp. in kāmāv°, rūpāv°, arūpāv° (or ārūpyāv°), of classes of gods, see under these entries. See also tāḍāvacara.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
अवचर , vgl. यज्ञावचर꣡.
Burnouf
French
अवचर अवचर
m.
 (चर्) lieu où l'on descend, où
l'on va.
Champ. Province
district.