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लोकधातु (lokadhAtu)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
लोकधातु
m.
 (-तुः) A continent.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
लोक—धातु mf. a region or part of the world,
Buddh.
N.
 of a partic. division of the w°, ib.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
लोकधातुः
पुं*
 लोकः-धातुः -
संसार का विशेष प्रकार का विभाजन
L R Vaidya
English
loka-DAtu {% m. %} a continent.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
lokadhātu, m. and f. (= Pali id., only f. acc. to Childers
see s.v. dhātu, 5), world-region, world-system, world
extremely common everywhere: three sorts, sāhasracūḍika, dvisāhasra, trisāhasramahāsāhasra (qq.v.
under the last, many examples showing both genders for lokadhātu are cited) Mvy 〔3041—4〕
other Mvy cases (all m. when unambiguous), 〔226, 361, 816, 860, 3046, 3060, 3063, 3070〕
besides the forms with trisāhasramahāsāhasra, both m. and f. forms occur, the mss. frequently varying
in SP 〔40.16〕 KN with 3 mss. m., 3 others f., ed. note says f. ‘seems preferable, dhātu being usually of fem. gender in SP’, but this is hardly borne out by the evidence of this edition
e.g. it is clearly m. in 〔156.7〕 (prose, no v.l.)
〔157.1〕 (one ms. f.)
〔306.10〕
in 〔41.10〕 and 〔42.1〕 (parallel 〔40.16〕 above) ed. with all mss. but one masc.
in 〔121.11 ff.〕 ed. prints fem. forms, but Kashgar rec. masc., usually with some Nep. mss.
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
jig rten gyi khams
लोकधातु
jig rten khams
लोकधातु
jig rten gyi khams
लोकधातु