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एलपत्र (elapatra)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
elapatra, m.,
(1) one of four ‘great treasures’ (mahānidhi
cf. a similar group of four treasures in Pali, DN comm. 〔i.284.8〕, saṅkha, ela, uppala, puṇḍarīka), each presided over by a nāga king of (presumably) the same name (so definitely stated for Elapatra): Mv 〔iii.383.18—384.1〕 catvāro mahānidhayo saṃkho vārāṇasyāṃ mithilāyāṃ (19) padumo kaliṃgeṣu piṃgalo takṣaśilāyāṃ elapatro
vārāṇasyāṃ saṃkhasya māsiko (20) samājo vartati
tahiṃ nidhānādhipatayo nāgarājāno nimantritakā āgatā
(〔384.1〕) tatra ca elapatreṇa nāgarājñā praśnā sthāpitā (see below for Pali equivalent)
(2) Elapatra, in Mv 〔iii.384.1〕, above, n. of a nāga king presiding over the ‘treasure’ of the same name
presumably the same as the nāga (or nāga king) named (without reference to the ‘treasure’) Mvy 〔3271〕 (Kyoto ed. Elāpattra, by error
Mironov Ela° with no v.l.)
Suv 〔162.9〕
Mmk 〔452.20〕
Kv 〔2.9〕
Māy 〔222.3〕
〔247.2〕
certainly the same as the Elapatra (mss.
ed. wrongly em. Elā°) of Divy 〔61.4〕, tho here he is not called a nāga but one of the four ‘kings’ presiding over the four treasures (cf. Mv 〔iii.383.18 ff.〕 above), (Divy 〔61.1〕) atha catvāro mahārājāś caturmahānidhisthāḥ, (3—4, vs) Piṅgalaś ca Kaliṅgeṣu Mithilāyāṃ ca Pāṇḍukaḥ, Elapatraś ca Gāndhāre Śaṅkho Vārāṇasīpure. Besides the Pali parallel, DN comm. above, cf. the 9 treasures of Kubera which include Śaṅkha and Padma (with presiding personages of the same names), and among the Jains the 9 treasures of a cakravartin, which in their AMg. forms include piṃgala, paṇḍua (= pāṇḍuka), and saṃkha
the Skt. forms of these are recorded at least lexically. Note also in Pali the nāga king Erakapatta, of Dhp. comm. 〔iii.231 ff.〕, who however does not seem to be brought into relation to the ‘treasure’ called in Pali ela (above)
but the vss attributed to him, and the replies to them, in Dhp. comm. are reproduced in Mv 〔iii.384〕, see above.
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
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एलपत्र
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१) एलपत्र २) रसना
Mahabharata
English
Elapatra = Elāpatra. § 564 (Mātalīyop.): V, 103, 3626. --§ 603d (Tripura): VII, 202, 9564 (Śiva made E. and Pushpadanta the pins of his yoke
C. has by error ºpuº).