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सत्काय (satkAya)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
satkāya, m. (= Pali sakkāya), real, existent, body
individuality, personality: imaṃ satkāyaṃ kāyaṃ manyadhvam AsP 〔94.12〕, donʼt think this existent (physical) body (of Tathāgatas) is their body (but rather regard the dharmakāya as such)
virtually = ātman, once at least in neutral or even favorable sense, prītibhakṣā bhaviṣyāmo satkāyenopaniḥśritāḥ (read °niśritāḥ) Ud 〔xxx.50〕, we shall feed on joy, relying on our selves (alone, not dependent on anything outside)
but commonly in unfavorable sense, of the personality to believe in which is a heresy (dṛṣṭi, see next)
satkāyasaṃjñīkṛtaṃ (sc. śarīraṃ) LV 〔208.13〕 (vs), formed thru the false notion of the personality
nārāyaṇabhūtaṃ satkāya-dharma-nistāḍana-tayā Gv 〔495.6〕, because it puts down the qualities of the individuality. There seems little doubt of the etym. and fundamental meaning of this word (probably no one now agrees with Childers that it was orig. sva-kāya)
and the scholastic fantasies of various schools listed by LaV-P. in AbhidhK. 〔v.15—17〕 need not be recorded here, tho they evidently influenced Tib. and Chin. interpretations.