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श्रमणोद्देश (zramaNoddeza)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
श्रमणोद्देश zramaNoddeza
m.
male or female disciple of a zramaNa
Monier Williams Cologne
English
श्रमणोद्देश
m.
(and f(इका). ) a male or female disciple of a Śramaṇa,
Divyāv.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
śramaṇoddeśa, m. (= Pali samaṇuddesa, here seems only applied to novices, sāmaṇera), a subordinate of a (Buddhist) monk, but not always = śrāmaṇera: Ṛddhilamātā upāsikā śramaṇoddeśikā (see next) Cundaḥ °deśaḥ (see Cunda, who is called in Divy a śrāmaṇeraka of Śāriputra) Divy 〔160.6〕
in Av 〔ii.69.4 ff.〕 (where mss. regularly śravaṇ° for śramaṇ°, em. Speyer) applied to Sumanas (4), who had been given by his father as attendant to Aniruddha
but at the time when this ep. is applied to him he had not only been initiated but become an arhant, while still acting in the rôle of attendant to Aniruddha, who calls him putraka, 〔ii.69.3〕.
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Śramaṇoddeśa (LL), Buddhist
a novice.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
श्रमणोद्देश m. = श्रामणेर, Divyāvad. 160, 6. °णोद्देशिका f. ebenda.