AdiSati
ādiśati , ( 1 ) ( cf. Hindi ādes salutation , late Skt. ādeśa id. , Edgerton, JAOS 38.206 f. ), salutes, greets : °śitavya, gdve. , Mv iii.420.11 (na bhikṣavo) yuṣmābhir ādiśitavyaṃ bhikṣāyāṃ labdhāyāṃ, monks, you must not salute (the [Page094-a] donor) when you have received alms ; ( 2 ) (= Pali ādisati, obj. dakkhinaṃ, dānaṃ), assigns (the profit from a meritorious act, ordinarily a gift of alms to the Buddha and his monks; object dakṣiṇām, once dakṣiṇādeśanām; this profit is, at the desire of the donor, often assigned by the recipient, ordinarily the Buddha, to the credit of someone else, e.g. a tormented preta, or the deceased father of the donor): Divy 85.28—30 bhagavatābhihitaḥ: mahārāja, kasya nāmnā dakṣiṇām ādiśāmi, kiṃ tavāho svid yena tavāntikāt prabhūtataraṃ puṇyaṃ prasūtam iti (similarly 86.3, 4, 7 , etc. ), the Lord said: O King, in whose name shall I assign the profit of your gift? yours, or that of one who has produced more merit than you? ; Av i.258.13 tato bhagavān … dakṣiṇām ādiśati (in a verse, 259.1—2 , assigning it to the benefit of pretas); 264.12 bhagavāṃś ca … dakṣiṇādeśanām ādiśati (as prec. ); 272.13 tato bhagavatā pretasya nāmnā dakṣiṇā ādiṣṭā; but the same ādiśati may be used when the subject is the donor, as in a frequent cliché in which a man hopes to have a son who will assign to him after death the profit of gifts and works of merit: Divy 99.6—8 asmākaṃ ca (see atyatīta ) … dānāni dattvā puṇyāni kṛtvā nāmnā dakṣiṇām ādiśed, … he would assign the profit (of the gifts and virtuous acts) in my name ; virtually the same Divy 440.30 ādekṣyati; Av i.15.1 and 197.3 etc. ādekṣyate; but elsewhere, ( 3 ) when the donor (not the Buddha) is the subject, the caus. ādeśayati is used; so in the same cliché just mentioned, Divy 2.(15—)16 … dakṣiṇām ādeśayiṣyati, (my son …) will cause the profit to be assigned (to me); Av i.264.2—3 putraka … mama nāmnā buddhapramukhaṃ bhikṣusaṃghaṃ bhojaya dakṣiṇām ādeśaya …; Divy 10.28 (asmākaṃ) ca nāmnā dakṣiṇām ādeśaya (also addressed by a father to his son). See s.v. dakṣiṇādeśanā .