बलचक्रवर्तिन् (balacakravartin)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishbala-cakravartin, a kind of inferior cakravartin: stands intermediate between (caturdvīpaka-)cakravartin and (rājan) maṇḍalin (q.v.), SP 〔6.4〕
〔20.6〕
〔362.8〕
without mention of maṇḍalin, (ordinary) rājānaḥ … balacakravartino 'pi rājānaś cakravartino 'pi SP 〔367.15〕
balacakravarti-rājyam distinguished (as inferior) from cakravartirājyam, Divy 〔139.11〕 = Av 〔i.5.15〕
(after nṛpatiḥ, simply, ) balacakravarty api ca dvīpapatiḥ RP 〔52.15〕 (vs)
here it seems probable that dvīpapati is not the same as balacakr° but rather = the supreme (caturdvīpaka-)cakravartin. Acc. to Childers and PTSD (without citation of passages), Pali distinguishes cakkavāla-cakkavatti, who ‘rules over the four great continents’, dīpa-cak°, who rules ‘over only one’, and padesa-cak°, who rules ‘over a portion of one’. The BHS terms seem not recorded elsewhere.
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