ArambaRa
ārambaṇa , nt. (= Pali ārammaṇa; in mg. 1 = Skt. ālambana ; in BHS this, q.v. , is also used in mg. 3), ( 1 ) basis, support, point dʼappui ; basis, reason , (logical) ground ; in Bhvr. cpds. , having … as basis, based on … : SP 6.13 (see s.v. āśravaṇa ); 71.7 -vividha-hetu-kāraṇa-nidarśanārambaṇa-niruktyupāyakauśalyair; 318.6—7 yāṃ ca … tathāgataḥ … vācaṃ bhāṣata ātmopadarśanena (add with WT vā paropadarśanena) vātmārambaṇena vā parārambaṇena vā …, either on his own authority ( Kern ) or that of others , or on the basis of (presentation of) himself (in visible form) or of others (so essentially Burnouf ; perhaps more exactly, on the basis of giving an account, a description, sc. of himself, by himself or by others ); 318.14 vividhair ārambaṇair, with various bases or authorities ; 319.12 tad ārambaṇaṃ kṛtvā, probably making that my reason or basis ; 320.3 tathāgatārambaṇa-manaskārakuśalamūlāni, roots of merit (due to) attentiveness based upon the T. ; LV 244.5 (dhyānagocarāṇāṃ) ca samāpattyārambaṇānāṃ laukikasamādhīnām; Mv ii.260.15 mahantānāṃ varṇānām ārambaṇam … (16) bhūtānāṃ ca varṇānām ārambaṇam anuprāpnuvanti (Bodhisattvas), apparently basis of great castes … and of bygone castes* (so Senart , but he disclaims understanding what is meant); Gv 18.21 -bodhy-ārambaṇa- ( 1st ed. misprinted; corr. 2d ed. ) -kuśalamūla-; 64.8 and 116.5 ārambaṇīkṛtya, making a basis, object of attention (with acc. ); in Śikṣ 253.3 ārambaṇena = ālambanapratyayena ( cf. Mvy 2269 ; Pali ārammaṇapaccaya), the third of the four pratyaya , q.v. ; ( 2 ) physical basis, location (= Skt. viṣaya): Gv 82.14 yasmin yasminn adhvani ( time , i.e. present, past, or future) yasmin yasminn ārambaṇe ( cosmic location , of a Tathāgata) … tathāgataṃ draṣṭum ākāṅkṣāmi; Gv 512.4—5 ābhāsam agamann ekasminn ārambaṇe yathā caikasminn ārambaṇe tathāśeṣasarvārambaṇeṣu, location(s) , of the palatial structures presided over by Maitreya; ( 3 ) like Pali ārammaṇa, also = Skt. viṣaya in sense of sense-object , of which in Pali there are six (the 6th being dhamma, object of manas); Śikṣ 250.5 cakṣurindriyādhipateyā rūpārambaṇa-prativijñaptiḥ, recognition of the sense-object form, dependent on the sense-organ eye (sight); Mv i.120.11 , read with mss. ārambaṇārambhaṇacittaṃ hetuno parikarmenti, … the thought as it grasps the sense-objects (here perhaps more particularly the objects of the manas, ideas , to which Pali ārammaṇa is sometimes restrictedly applied). -*( Mv ii.260.15—16 ) Better, basis of great and true renown , or qualities , or (physical) appearance? (Addition in proof.)