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ज्ञात्र (jJAtra)

 
Capeller Eng
English
ज्ञा॑त्र
n.
capacity of understanding, intelligence.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
ज्ञात्र jJAtra
n.
intellectual faculty
ज्ञात्र jJAtra v. insight
Monier Williams Cologne
English
ज्ञा॑त्र
n.
the intellectual faculty,
VS.
xviii, 7
TS.
vii, 2, 4, 2
MaitrS.
iv, 2, 8
TāṇḍyaBr.
v, 7.
Monier Williams 1872
English
ज्ञात्र, अम्, n., Ved. the faculty of perception,
intelligence, knowledge.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
jñātra, nt. (rarely Vedic id., VS 〔18.7〕, comm. jñātur bhāvo, vijñānasāmarthyam
PB 〔5.7〕, see BR
prob. here too reputation for skill
= Pali ñatta, Dhp. 〔72〕, badly defined PTSD
it means public reputation for skill, which only fools seek, to their ruin, as the Dhp. verse says and the comm.ʼs story illustrates), public reputation for skill or intellectual accomplishments, regularly mentioned as something which a good monk or Bodhisattva should not covet: lābhaṃ ca jñātraṃ (so with Kashgar rec., text jñātaṃ) ca gaveṣamāṇaḥ SP 〔27.7〕 (vs), coveting profit and reputation for skill
in corresponding prose 〔22.4—5〕 lābhaguruko 'bhūt satkāraguruko jñātraguruko (so v.l., text jñāta°) yaśaskāmas
aniśrita sarva-jñātra-lābhe RP 〔16.3〕 (vs)
tyakta jñātram aśeṣam 〔21.6〕 (vs), of good Bodhisattvas
tyaktva ca jñātra-lābha-yaśa-kīrti 〔33.2〕 (vs)
jñātra-gurukāḥ 〔34.4〕 (prose), of evil Bodhisattvas
jñātralābha-mātrakena (so!) 〔34.12〕 (prose)
jñātra-pratilambhaḥ Bbh 〔289.10, 16〕.
Capeller
German
ज्ञा॑त्र
n.
Erkenntnisfähigkeit, Einsicht.