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आधिपतेय (Adhipateya)

 
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ādhipateya, nt. (anomalously m. Mvy 〔7192〕 °yaḥ = Tib. bdaṅ du ḥgyur ba (or bya ba), so also Mironov
= Pali ādhipateyya, see below
from adhipati, roughly = Skt. ādhipatya, which is used in AbhidhK., see Index, in ways not closely parallel to the Pali usage), control, influence, mastery, prime motivation (lit. overlordship). In Pali esp. used of one of three influences leading to virtue, attādhi° (q.v. CPD), lokādhi°, dhammādhi°, see Childers s.v. ādhipateyya and Vism. 〔i.14.1 ff.〕 (the influence of oneself, i.e. conscience or self-respect
the influence of the world or public opinion
the influence of dhamma or regard for moral principles as authoritatively laid down). In BHS little evidence is found for the existence of these, tho Speyer (Transl. 〔114〕) renders Jm 〔80.14〕 (hrīvarṇapratisaṃyukteṣu) lokādhipateyeṣu ca (sc. upaneyam) by … the regard of public opinion, perhaps rightly. On the other hand, lokādhipateya-prāpta LV 〔425.5〕 can only mean arrived at the overlordship of the world
it is one of a long list of epithets of the Buddha as the one that has ‘turned the wheel of the Law’
it is preceded by lokagurur … lokārthakara … lokānuvartaka … lokavid ity ucyate, and it would be absurd to interpret it as under the control of public opinion. (See also LV 〔179.20—21〕 s.v. ādhipateyatā.) Mv 〔i.16.12〕 = 〔18.5, 15〕 = 〔19.5〕 = 〔20.10〕 (evaṃ khalu) punaḥ ādhipateya-mātram etaṃ tatropatteḥ, but this, of course, is only the principal cause (controlling influence) of rebirth there (viz. in one of various hells)
Gv 〔19.8〕 na tad balaṃ na tad ādhipateyaṃ … (saṃvidyate), that (sort of) power or controlling influence (is not found)
oftener at the end of Bhvr. cpds., Śikṣ 〔117.3〕 mahākaruṇādhipateyaṃ, (any action of Bodhisattvas is …) controlled (influenced) by supreme compassion
Śikṣ 〔250.5〕 cakṣurindriyādhipateyā rūpārambaṇaprativijñaptiḥ, recognition of the sense-object form, which (recognition) is controlled by (= dependent on) the sense of sight
Dbh 〔11.20〕 (tac cittam utpadyate bodhisattvānāṃ) mahākaruṇāpūrvamgamaṃ prajñājñānādhipateyaṃ …
Śikṣ 〔322.15〕 dharmādhipateya, of Buddhas. See next.