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आजन्य (Ajanya)

 
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ājanya, also ājaniya, ājānya, ājāniya, ājāneya, adj. (= Pali ājañña, ājāniya, ājānīya, ājāneyya), of noble race, blooded, primarily of animals, esp. horses
by extension used of men, esp. Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and very rarely (meaning noble) of other, inanimate entities. Tib. (e.g. Mvy 〔1080, 4769〕, etc.) regularly renders caṅ śes (pa), omniscient, falsely interpreting the word as derived from jñā know. In composition, the word in all its forms regularly (not always) follows the noun, e.g. aśvājāneya, a blooded horse (orig. perhaps a thoroughbred of a horse?), below. As separate word: of animals, yo aśvavaraṃ damayed ājāneyan (= °yaṃ) va saindhavaṃ Ud 〔xix.7〕
ājāneyā hayottamāḥ Mv 〔ii.487.20〕
〔iii.22.11〕
cf. yuktāni ājānyarathāni Mv 〔iii.441.10〕 chariots of (drawn by) blooded (horses), all hitched up
ājāneyau dvau balīvardhāv LV 〔381.7〕
ājăniyo hastipoto Mv 〔iii.130.7〕 (prose, no v.l.)
of men, ājāneyānāṃ sattvānāṃ Gv 〔322.8〕
°neyaḥ Mvy 〔1080〕, of śrāvakas
°neya ity ucyate LV 〔425.19〕, of the Tathāgata
ājāneyo kahin ti nāma (so Senart em., mss. kāma) bhoti Mv 〔iii.397.14〕, answered by … ājāneyo (v.l. °ya) tam (Senart em. ti tam) āhu bhūriprajñā (mss. °jño) 〔398.12〕
voc. ājanya, addressed to Buddha, namas te muktāyājanya Mmk 〔4.22〕
cf. Divy 〔617.16〕 ājāneya-mānā, paying reverence to the Noble One (the Buddha)
in KP 〔9.5〕 and 〔10.5〕 dāntājāneya-prāpta
〔9.14〕
〔10.17〕 and 20 ājanyaprāpta, all of Bodhisattvas (cf. 〔10.1〕 ājāneyā bodhisattvāḥ), become noble (steeds), see s.v. prāpta
the figure of a horse is surely intended here, since there is contrast with KP 〔9.1〕 bodhisattva-khaḍuṅkāḥ, the latter (q.v.) being a term pertaining in its literal sense to horses
here may also belong Mv 〔ii.264.14〕 ājāneya-vikrāntaṃ vikramantam, said of the Bodhisattva, striding with the stride of a blooded horse, or of a noble person (cf. the next following mahāpuruṣavikrāntaṃ vikr°), but possibly striding with a noble stride (cf. the preceding aparājitavikrāntaṃ vikr°), as in the next example
as prior member of karmadhāraya cpds. or bahuvrīhis based on them, occasionally noble, distinguished, in application to other than animate beings: catasra imā … ājāneya-gatayo bodhisattvenānugantavyāḥ RP 〔14.13〕, noble procedures (listed as sugatipratilābha, guruśuśrūṣaṇā, prāntaśayyāsanābhirati, pratibhānapratilābha
is the literal meaning gaits of a blooded horse?)
ājāneya-svaraḥ Mv 〔iii.343.5〕 could, then, also be taken as having a noble sound (ep. of the Buddhaʼs voice), but in view of the preceding vṛṣabhasvaraḥ and the following krauñcasvaraḥ it probably means having the sound of a blooded (horse) and belongs above
once, at least, this adj. precedes in composition the name of the animal to which it is applied, ājāneya-hasty-upetān Śikṣ 〔26.14〕
but regularly this order is reversed (as in such cpds. as nara-śārdūla) and we find aśvājāneya, m. (lit. thoroughbred of a horse) Mvy 〔4773〕 (misunderstood pw s.v. ājāneya)
Divy 〔510.21, 22〕
〔511.1 ff.〕
Mv 〔ii.270.11〕 (mss.)
Gv 〔400.13〕
Śikṣ 〔28.3〕 (ms. aśvāyāneyān)
bhadrāśvājāneya- Sukh 〔60.8—9〕
hastyājāneya Mvy 〔4771〕
Gv 〔400.12〕
Śikṣ 〔27.21〕
siṃhājāneya Mvy 〔4769〕
and (cf. above, and Pali purisājāneyya) by extension puruṣājāneya (the corruptions puruṣăjāneya and °ṣajāna occur in mss. and sometimes in edd.) LV 〔350.11〕, corresponds to Mv 〔i.229.8〕
Mv 〔ii.133.8〕
〔284.18〕
in Mv 〔i.316.4〕 ed. em. puruṣājāniyam, mss. corrupt, [Page090-b] reading doubtful
puruṣājanya Mv 〔iii.109.5〕 (vs)
Bbh 〔50.6〕 (voc., to the Buddha).
Sanskrit Tibetan
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cang shes
१) आजन्य २) आजानेय
cang shes pa
१) आजन्य २) आजानेय