पूर्वनिमित्त (pUrvanimitta)
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Hindiपूर्वनिमित्तम्
पूर्व-निमित्तम् -
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Englishpūrva-nimitta, nt. (= Pali pubba°), advance-sign, prognosticating something that is to happen in the future: °tāni LV 〔76.9〕 and 〔77.21〕, of the 32 signs which precede and forecast the birth of the Bodhisattva (so also in Pali)
they are listed in detail between these two points in LV
in Gv 〔373.20 ff.〕 only ten pūrvanimittāni are listed as preceding the Bodhisattvaʼs birth
in Divy 〔193.20〕 of the five signs that a god is about to ‘fall’ (so also in Pali)
used (as also in Pali) of dreams that foretell events, so LV 〔186.5〕 of Śuddhodanaʼs dream presaging the Bodhisattvaʼs retirement from the world
in Gv 〔375.2 ff.〕, ten pūrva-ni° occurred in the Lumbinī-grove when Māyā came out of Kapilavastu
in Gv 〔531.4〕, ten precede the revealing of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra (these are all esoteric, dealing with occurrences in Buddhakṣetras).
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