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बलाधान (balAdhAna)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
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-balādhāna, nt. (Skt. bala plus Skt. ādhāna, on this use of which see pw s.v. ādhāna 6), assumption, attainment, of (usually some particular) power (said of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas): Mv 〔i.134.11—12〕 kṛtaniścaya-balādhānāś ca bhavanti (Bodhisattvas)
SP 〔316.1〕 śṛṇudhvam idam evaṃrūpaṃ mamādhiṣṭhāna-balādhānam
〔414.4〕 (bodhisattvasya) jñānabalādhānena puṇyabalādhānena ca (as manifested in his ‘act of truth’, satyādhiṣṭhāna)
〔420.7〕 evaṃ jñānabalādhānaprāptaḥ sa bodhisattvo bhaviṣyati, this B. will be thus arrived at attainment of the power of knowledge
〔426.6—7〕 tathāgatabalādhānena, by the T.ʼs acquisition of (the) power(s) (appropriate to him).
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बलाधान