प्रतिवर्णिक (prativarNika)
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Monier Williams 1872
EnglishEdgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishprativarṇika (var. °ṇaka), m., or °ṇikā (in mg. = Skt. pratirūpaka, which is also BHS
both = Tib. ltar bcos pa, Mvy 〔6687—9〕), counterfeit, (false) imitation (of something, which usually precedes in comp.): prajñāpāramitā-°ṇikaḥ Mvy 〔6687〕 (Mironov °ṇakaḥ)
the gender of the first element makes °ṇikā seem preferable, and this is used in the same cpd. AsP 〔112.16 ff.〕
tasyāḥ (sc. prajnāpāramitāyāḥ) °ṇikām 〔113.3〕 (in the foll. passage it is said to consist in the doctrine that impermanence, anityatā, of the skandhas means destruction, vināśa, of them)
na (sc. prajñāpāramitā-)-prativarṇikāpi 〔181.5〕, not even the counterfeit (of it)
bodhisattva-prativarṇikaḥ 〔394.16〕, a counterfeit bodhisattva. In several of these passages there are parallels with pratirūpa(ka). (See Schmidt, Nachträge, for a different mg. in Skt.)
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