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मृगदाय (mRgadAya)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
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[mṛgadāya, ] mṛga-dāva, m. (cpd. only recorded in BHS and as miga-dāya in Pali, tho both constituents are Skt.), deer-park, almost exclusively used of the park Ṛṣipatana, °vadana, etc., at Benares, where Buddha is said to have first preached
the form °dāya is never recorded in mss., tho Senart adopts it by em. in Mv 〔i.366.8〕, where the etym. offered seems naturally to call for it (but cf. LV 〔19.4〕 below): mṛgāṇāṃ dāyo dinno mṛgadāve ṛṣipaṭṭane (mss.
Senart em. mṛgadāyo ti ṛṣipattano)
the foll. all refer to the Benares park, usually in loc., Ṛṣipatane (°vadane, etc.) mṛgadāve: SP 〔69.12〕
LV 〔18.20〕
〔19.4〕 (abhayadattāś ca) tasmin mṛgāḥ prativasanti iti mṛgadāva iti saṃjñodapādi, cf. Mv 〔i.366.8〕, above
LV 〔264.22〕
〔402.3〕
〔404.17〕
〔407.16〕
〔412.9〕
〔413.1〕
Mv 〔i.161.4, 323.14, 17〕
〔330.4〕
〔331.3〕
〔ii.138.2〕
〔iii.323.3〕
〔330.17〕
Divy 〔464.16〕
[Page438-a] Av 〔i.42.9〕
Mvy 〔4129〕
once, in Divy 〔182.25〕, of a quite different deerpark called Bhīṣaṇikāvana, in Śuśumāragiri.