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विदूषणा (vidUSaNA)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
vidūṣaṇā (-samudācāra), (performance of) self-denunciation (of oneʼs own past sins), one of four ways of counteracting [Page488-a] past evil deeds, by which a Bodhisattva ‘kṛtopacitaṃ pāpam abhibhavati’ Śikṣ 〔160.5〕
tatra °ṇā-samudācāro 'kuśalaṃ karmādhyācarati (so read) tatraiva ca vipratisārabahulo bhavati 6
a long description of the ways in which this is done follows, ending ukto °ṇā-samudācāraḥ 〔171.7〕
the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā (Bibl. Ind.) 〔p. 153, line 5〕, glosses vidūṣaṇā: akuśalaṃ karma kṛtvā vipratisārarūpātma-(misprinted)-vigarhaṇā pāpadeśanā.