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धर्माकर (dharmAkara)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
धर्माकर dharmAkara
m.
name of the 99th buddha
धर्माकर dharmAkara
m.
mine of virtue or law
Monier Williams Cologne
English
धर्माकर
m.
‘mine of virtue or l°’,
N.
of a poet,
Cat.
of the 99th Buddha
of a disciple of Lokeśvara-rāja
N.
of a
Buddh.
translator.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
धर्माकर poet. Skm.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Dharmākara, n. of a monk (of old): Sukh 〔7.3 ff.〕
he became the Buddha Amitābha, 〔28.10〕.
पुराणम्
English
धर्माकर / DHARMĀKARA. A righteous house-holder. Once a prince entrusted his beautiful wife with dharmākara and went away. Though she lived with him for six months he did not have any kind of contact with her. The prince returned. Wicked people tried to arouse doubts about the chastity of his wife and the householder. But it was futile. Still fearing calumny dharmākara entered fire. In that test by fire he came out victorious. Not only did his body remain unscorched, but also that the faces of the wicked people who blamed him were filled with leprosy and became ugly. (padma purāṇa, sṛṣṭi khaṇḍa, Chapter 50).