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चेतिय (cetiya)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
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cetiya, nt. or (when applied to a person) m. (= Pali id., Skt. caitya), sanctuary, temple
but also, object (of any kind) or person worthy of veneration
this form common in even the prose of Mv, only in vss of other texts
cf. also ceti, cetika. In sense of a shrine (building) cāpālaṃ nāma cetiyaṃ LV 〔388.12〕 = Mv 〔iii.306.14〕 (vs)
cāpālaṃ cetiyaṃ Mv 〔i.299.22〕 (prose), and ff.
cetiyeṣu Mv 〔i.223.11〕 = 〔ii.26.8〕 (vs)
other forms, 〔ii.354.11〕
〔364.11, 13〕
〔365.20 ff.〕
〔iii.50.19〕
〔303.1〕, etc.
cetiya- (mss. mostly cetiyaṃ-, perhaps read so
one ms. once cetika-)-pūjakaṃ (taṃ kulaṃ) Mv 〔i.198.2〕 = 〔ii.1.12〕 (prose), shrine-revering, of the family in which a Bodhisattva is born the last time (LV 〔24.9〕 caitya-pūjakaṃ in same passage)
of the Buddha himself, sarvalokasya cetiyo Mv 〔ii.349.6〕
〔359.8〕
〔iii.273.5〕, the Revered One of the whole world
lokasya cetiya (voc.) Mv 〔ii.294.14〕
cetiyaṃ narāṇāṃ 〔ii.296.13〕
lokacetiyaḥ LV 〔97.10〕 (vs), of the Bodhisattva
utpanno iha loki cetiyo divi bhuvi mahitaḥ LV 〔363.2〕 (vs), of the same
of the miraculously produced four bowls, dhāret' ime cetiya saṃmataite (so read with v.l., text °matīte) LV 〔383.12〕, preserve them
they (shall be) honored as revered objects
cetiyārthe (so with mss.) Mv 〔ii.263.12〕 (prose), for the purpose of (making it, viz. the spot where Buddha became enlightened) an object of veneration (universal emperors will never master, adhiṣṭhihanti with v.l., that spot except for this purpose).