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विमात्रता (vimAtratA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वि—मात्र—ता
f.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
vimātra-tā (implies an adj. *vi-mātra, diverse, which has not been noted
see next, also vaimātra, °tra-tā, °trya
all these seem to be used only as nouns, except one case of vaimātra as adj., Mv 〔iii.320.16〕, acc. to mss.
Pali also has no adj.), diversity, variety, heterogeneity: sarvasattvendriyavīrya-°tā-jñāna- LV 〔433.8〕
naikabuddhasthānapraṇidhāna-°tāvaraṇāya (see āvaraṇa) Gv 〔107.22〕
(-praṇidhāna-)-vimātratāvaraṇāya (so read for °vimātrāvara°) 24, and so read -praṇidhāna-vimātratānugamāya (for °vimātrānu°) 〔109.5〕
anantabodhisattvādhimukti- (2d ed. anantasattvādhimukti-)°tāṃ saṃpaśyan, anantasattvavibhakti-°tāṃ saṃpaśyan 〔115.26 f.〕
kvacid bodhicitta-°tāṃ (etc., a long series of cpds. ending vimātratāṃ) aśrauṣīt 〔516.13 ff.〕
others Dbh 〔15.15〕
〔75.4〕
at end of cpd. used like Skt. viśeṣa (see Sukh 〔66.12〕 s.v. vaimātrya) at end of cpds. = various …: nānāsattvakula-°tābhyo Gv 〔145.15〕, from various varieties of families of creatures.