ASraya
āśraya , m. ( Skt. , basis etc. ), ( 1 ) in Laṅk. , acc. to Suzuki , the ālaya-vijñāna ( q.v. ) as basis of all vijñānas; one must make it converted, in revulsion (parāvṛtta, cf. Laṅk 9.11 parāvṛttāśraya); Laṅk 10.5 anyathā dṛśyamāna ucchedam āśraye (so read with v.l. for °yo, text °yaḥ), if the basis is otherwise regarded ( loc. abs. ), (there is) destruction (it is fatal to the holder of such a view); ( 2 ) acc. to citation in Burnouf Introd. 449 , six āśraya = the six sense organs (as one of the three groups constituting the 18 dhātu); this is said to be attributed to the Yogācāras in ‘ le commentaire de LʼAbhidharma ’; it does not seem to occur in AbhidhK. and I have not noted precisely this usage in any text, but cf. next; ( 3 ) acc. to AbhidhK. LaV-P. iii.126 , le corps muni dʼorganes, qui est le point dʼappui (āśraya) de ce qui est appuyé (āśrita) sur lui: à savoir de la pensée et des mentaux (cittacaitta). Is the obscure passage Mv ii.153.1—2 somehow concerned here? It reads, in a verse (see my Reader, Four Sights [ Mv ], n. 40 ) describing disease (vyādhi): … śokānāṃ prabhavo rativyupasamo ( i.e. °śamo) cittāśrayāṇāṃ nidhi, dharmasyopaśamaḥ (lacuna of 6 syllables) gātrāśritānāṃ gṛhaṃ, yo lokaṃ pibate vapuś ca grasate etc. I should be inclined to emend to cittāśravāṇāṃ ( cf. LV 345.21 , below), but for the phrase gātrāśritānāṃ gṛhaṃ, which implies support for āśraya; Senart refers to Burnouf ( l. c. ), but finds it hard to apply āśraya and āśrita as used in that passage; ( 4 ) commonly, body ( cf. prec. ): LV 324.16 ( vs ) subhato (= śu°) kalpayamāna āśrayaṃ vitathena, falsely imagining the body to be handsome ; RP 6.13 lakṣaṇaiś ca pratimaṇḍitāśrayo; 23.1 me jvalita āśrayaḥ, my body was burned ; 25.7 me tyakta varāśrayaḥ; 26.8 ; 27.16 ; Dbh 16.10 ; Av i.175.4 pretāśrayasadṛśāḥ; 264.9 pretīṃ vikṛtāśrayāṃ; 272.3 ; 291.17 ; 332.9 ; 356.7 ; 361.2 ; ii.172.9 ; see also cañcitāśraya ; [in LV 345.21 āśraya(-kṣaya-jñāna-) without v.l. , but Tib. translates āśrava, which must be adopted: knowledge leading to destruction of the impurities , not … of the body ]. See next.