Ajanya
ājanya , also ājaniya, ājānya, ājāniya, ājāneya , adj. (= Pali ājañña, ājāniya, ājānīya, ājāneyya), of noble race, blooded , primarily of animals, esp. horses; by extension used of men, esp. Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and very rarely (meaning noble ) of other, inanimate entities. Tib. ( e.g. Mvy 1080, 4769 , etc. ) regularly renders caṅ śes (pa) , omniscient , falsely interpreting the word as derived from jñā know . In composition, the word in all its forms regularly (not always) follows the noun, e.g. aśvājāneya, a blooded horse ( orig. perhaps a thoroughbred of a horse? ), below. As separate word: of animals, yo aśvavaraṃ damayed ājāneyan (= °yaṃ) va saindhavaṃ Ud xix.7 ; ājāneyā hayottamāḥ Mv ii.487.20 ; iii.22.11 ; cf. yuktāni ājānyarathāni Mv iii.441.10 chariots of (drawn by) blooded (horses), all hitched up ; ājāneyau dvau balīvardhāv LV 381.7 ; ājăniyo hastipoto Mv iii.130.7 (prose, no v.l. ); of men, ājāneyānāṃ sattvānāṃ Gv 322.8 ; °neyaḥ Mvy 1080 , of śrāvakas; °neya ity ucyate LV 425.19 , of the Tathāgata; ājāneyo kahin ti nāma (so Senart em. , mss. kāma) bhoti Mv iii.397.14 , answered by … ājāneyo ( v.l. °ya) tam ( Senart em. ti tam) āhu bhūriprajñā ( mss. °jño) 398.12 ; voc. ājanya, addressed to Buddha, namas te muktāyājanya Mmk 4.22 ; cf. Divy 617.16 ājāneya-mānā, paying reverence to the Noble One (the Buddha); in KP 9.5 and 10.5 dāntājāneya-prāpta; 9.14 ; 10.17 and 20 ājanyaprāpta, all of Bodhisattvas ( cf. 10.1 ājāneyā bodhisattvāḥ), become noble (steeds), see s.v. prāpta ; the figure of a horse is surely intended here, since there is contrast with KP 9.1 bodhisattva-khaḍuṅkāḥ, the latter ( q.v. ) being a term pertaining in its literal sense to horses; here may also belong Mv ii.264.14 ājāneya-vikrāntaṃ vikramantam, said of the Bodhisattva, striding with the stride of a blooded horse , or of a noble person ( cf. the next following mahāpuruṣavikrāntaṃ vikr°), but possibly striding with a noble stride ( cf. the preceding aparājitavikrāntaṃ vikr°), as in the next example; as prior member of karmadhāraya cpds. or bahuvrīhis based on them, occasionally noble, distinguished , in application to other than animate beings: catasra imā … ājāneya-gatayo bodhisattvenānugantavyāḥ RP 14.13 , noble procedures (listed as sugatipratilābha, guruśuśrūṣaṇā, prāntaśayyāsanābhirati, pratibhānapratilābha; is the literal meaning gaits of a blooded horse? ); ājāneya-svaraḥ Mv iii.343.5 could, then, also be taken as having a noble sound ( ep. of the Buddhaʼs voice), but in view of the preceding vṛṣabhasvaraḥ and the following krauñcasvaraḥ it probably means having the sound of a blooded (horse) and belongs above; once, at least, this adj. precedes in composition the name of the animal to which it is applied, ājāneya-hasty-upetān Śikṣ 26.14 ; but regularly this order is reversed (as in such cpds. as nara-śārdūla) and we find aśvājāneya, m. ( lit. thoroughbred of a horse ) Mvy 4773 (misunderstood pw s.v. ājāneya); Divy 510.21, 22 ; 511.1 ff. ; Mv ii.270.11 ( mss. ); Gv 400.13 ; Śikṣ 28.3 ( ms. aśvāyāneyān); bhadrāśvājāneya- Sukh 60.8—9 ; hastyājāneya Mvy 4771 ; Gv 400.12 ; Śikṣ 27.21 ; siṃhājāneya Mvy 4769 ; and ( cf. above, and Pali purisājāneyya) by extension puruṣājāneya (the corruptions puruṣăjāneya and °ṣajāna occur in mss. and sometimes in edd. ) LV 350.11 , corresponds to Mv i.229.8 ; Mv ii.133.8 ; 284.18 ; in Mv i.316.4 ed. em. puruṣājāniyam, mss. corrupt, [Page090-b] reading doubtful; puruṣājanya Mv iii.109.5 ( vs ); Bbh 50.6 ( voc. , to the Buddha).