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समानार्थता (samAnArthatA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
समानार्थ—ता
f.
equivalence, equality of birth or rank,
Lalit.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
samānārthatā (in Pali samānattatā, as if *samānātmatā, is the 4th saṃgahavatthu), equality,
(1) in general sense: LV 〔239.13〕 māṃ (sc. the Bodhisattva) °tayā saṃsthāpayati sma, he (Ārāḍa Kālāpa = °ma) set me on terms of equality with himself
in same incident Mv 〔ii.119.4〕 samānārthatāye sthāpayet
(2) as one of the 4 saṃgrahavastu, q.v., acc. to Bbh 〔225.21 ff.〕 and Sūtrāl. 〔xvi.72〕, (a Bodhisattvaʼs) adoption of the same (religious) aims for himself which he preaches to others
in lists of the 4 saṃgraha-vastu occurs LV 〔38.17〕
〔160.7〕
〔182.6〕
〔429.13〕
Mv 〔ii.395.9〕
Mvy 〔928〕
Dharmas 〔19〕. But in Mv 〔i.3.12〕 the 4th saṃgraha-vastu is given, instead, as samāna-sukhaduḥkhatā (mss. confused), i.e. having the same joys and sorrows (with others), or sympathy
this may have been the older interpretation, and seems to fit better the Pali equivalent (above), which is so interpreted DN comm. 〔iii.928.10 ff.〕 The definition in Bbh and Sūtrāl. may then be a late interpretation of pedantic Mahāyāna metaphysicians.