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आकाशानन्त्यायतन (AkAzAnantyAyatana)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
आकाशानन्त्यायतन
n.
‘abode of infinity or of infinite space’,
N.
of a world,
Buddh.
आ-का—°शानन्त्यायतन
m.
pl.
N.
of a class of gods,
MWB.
213 (also °तनोपग,
Dharmas.
129)
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
ākāśānantyāyatana (= Pali ākāsānañcāy°),
(1) nt., stage of the infinity of space
as first of the stages of arūpāvacara gods (see deva), Mvy 〔3110〕
Dbh 〔34.11〕
as first of four ārūpya samāpatti -(q.v.), Mvy 〔1492〕
Karmav 〔47.21〕
as condition of the 4th vimokṣa, Mvy 〔1514〕
as condition of the 7th abhibhvāyatana, Mvy 〔1526〕
as fifth sattvāvāsa, Mvy 〔2293〕
(2) m. pl., = next: Suv 〔86.11〕
cf. ākāśānantya.