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तीर्थिक (tIrthika)

 
Apte
English
तीर्थिकः [tīrthikḥ], 1 A pilgrim, an ascetic Brāhmaṇa (visiting holy places).
An adherent or head of any other than one's own creed
Buddha, Jaina.
Apte 1890
English
तीर्थिकः A pilgrim, an ascetic Brāhmaṇa (visiting holy places).
Monier Williams Cologne
English
तीर्थिक
m.
 an adherent or head of any other than one's own creed,
Buddh.
Jain.
Monier Williams 1872
English
तीर्थिक, अस्, m. an ascetic Brāhman (visiting
holy shrines or bathing-places), a pilgrim.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
तीर्थिकः
पुं*
 - तीर्थ + टन्
"तीर्थ यात्री, वह संन्यासी ब्राह्मण जो तीर्थों के दर्शन के लिए निकला हो"
L R Vaidya
English
tIrTika {% m. %} A pilgrim, an ascetic Brāhmaṇa.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
tīrthika (also para-t°
see prec. and next items
prob. Sktized from MIndic (Pali) titthiya, see tīrthya
both are very common in prose as well as vss),
(1) heretic
like its relatives, pejoratively used
there is one seeming exception, tīrthikā vā bhavanti bhavasūdanāḥ Mv 〔i.106.8〕 (vs), where if the text is correct it seems to be said of Bodhisattvas in the 8th bhūmi that they become religious prophets (or the like), destroying (the states of normal) existence. I suspect a corruption, and cannot explain the text as it stands any more than Senart (his doubtful suggestion based on LV Calc. 〔313.19〕 falls now with the reading of that text, which in Lefm. 〔250.1〕 is replaced by … tīrthyāḥ, heretics, kurvante). However, it is barely possible that this one Mv passage preserves the original neutral mg., adherent (or founder) of (any) religion. A trace of this may also remain in the not infrequent prefixation of anya- to t°, other (than Buddhist) sectarian, LV 〔268.12〕
Mv 〔iii.49.12〕 (anyatīrthikapūrvo, formerly a member of another sect)
〔412.7〕
or para-t°, q.v.
cf. kutīrthikā(ḥ) LV 〔12.10〕, members of base (heretical) sects. Otherwise, and very often, tīrthika alone means heretic simply: SP 〔272.10〕
LV 〔250.21〕
〔258.1〕
〔260.9〕
Mv 〔i.45.10〕
〔69.17〕
〔ii.135.12〕
〔iii.392.7〕 (śramaṇa-brāhmaṇa-tīrthika-gaṇikā, apparently implying that brahmans were not included among tīrthikas
this cpd. appears in some of the other passages listed)
Mvy 〔3514〕
Divy 〔146.19〕
〔152.5〕
〔275.9〕
Av 〔i.2.6〕
〔16.3〕 etc., common
Bhad 〔52〕
Bbh 〔173.11〕 etc.
[Page255-a] yat kiṃcit tīrthikaliṅgaṃ … LV 〔409.17〕
Mv 〔iii.329.11〕, whatever (external) mark (dress etc.) of heretics (was borne by converts, all magically disappeared and they wore the aspect of Buddhist monks)
tīrthikāvakrāntaka, see avakrāntaka
(2) n. of a nāga: Mvy 〔3320〕
(3) see s.v. sama-tīrthika.
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Tīrthika (EI 9), Buddhist
teacher of a religion other
than one's own
a non-Buddhist (especially, Śaiva) teacher.
(EI 32), same as Tairthika, ‘a priest’.
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
mu stegs can
तीर्थिक