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īryā-patha , m. (= Pali iriyā-patha, AMg. iriyāvaha; in mss. , esp. of Mv and LV , often written iryā° or iryyā° , semi- MIndic , which Lefm. usually keeps but Senart emends to īryā°; once, at least, iriyā-patha, as in Pali , Mv ii.157.1 , prose, kept by Senart ; also airyāpatha , q.v. ; see prec. and next), much commoner than the synonymous īryā , ( 1 ) movement (of physical movements of any sort): Mv i.22.11 (prose) chinna-iryāpathā (all mss. , Sen. em. °īryā°) gacchanti ( mss. gacchati), sinners in hell, confined in huts (gharakehi oruddhā), go with (freedom of) movement cut off , i.e. suffer restraint of movement (but possibly more specifically, suffer restraint of posture , see 4 below, e.g. are not allowed to sit or lie down); ( 2 ) applied to any particular course of religious, esp. ascetic, performance, and specifically to disapproved ascetic practices of heretics, such as the ‘five-fire’ practice (mentioned in the prec. ): Divy 350.7 (sa) teṣāṃ-teṣām (of heretical ascetics) īryāpathān vikopayitum ārabdhaḥ; ( 3 ) generally less specific, behavior, deportment , good or bad, of people in general; but esp. of the approved deportment of pious Buddhists, of monks, or of Bodhisattvas or Buddhas; most commonly with favorable implication; but this may be made clear by an adjective, esp. prāsādika, gracious , (religiously) attractive : Mv iii.27.3—4 prāsādikena īryāpathena ( v.l. iryyā°), of a Pratyeka-buddha; in Śikṣ 348.6 prāsādika and aprāsādika īryā°, good and bad deportment , contrasted; Divy 82.14 śānteneryāpathena, [Page116-1b] of Mahākāśyapa; LV 427.18 praśānteryāpathaḥ, and 19 sarveryāpathacaryāviśeṣasamanvāgataḥ, attended by all excellent deportment and behavior , of the Tathāgata; creatures in general vary in deportment, LV 35.8 yathādhimukta-sattveryāpatha- ( v.l. cited °iryyā°)-saṃdarśanāya; Gv 527.3—4 sarvasattvādhimuktisamair īryāpathaiḥ; specifically good deportment , SP 282.3 ( vs ) °pathaṃ yo mama rakṣamāṇo bhaveta bhikṣū …; LV 29.4 ( vs ) iryāpathe-ṣṭhā, abiding in … ; 179.17 (bodhisattvo … sarvāntaḥpurasya …) īryāpatham upadarśya, having displayed proper behavior to all the harem (so Tib. ); 220.6 īryāpathebhyaś (most mss. iry°) cyutāḥ, fallen away from right behavior ; Dbh 71.19 tathāgateryāpathacaryācāritrānugato; Mv ii.157.1 (prose) iriyāpathasaṃpanno, perfect in deportment , of a monk; 390.8 ( vs ) īryāpathena su-upeta (with mss. ) satvā, (there are no evil-doers here;) creatures are well endowed with proper deportment ; Av ii.130.4 (corrupt); Mv i.174.11 ( vs ) īryāpathe (3 mss. iry°) ca vīrye ca dhyāne jñāne śame dame; iii.346.6 iryāpathe (so mss. ) ca vīrye ca dhyāne jñāne tathaiva ca; often it is said that a newly-initiated person (of superior character) shows the īryāpatha, deportment , of a monk of long standing, LV 409.19—20 tad yathāpi nāma varṣaśatopapannasya bhikṣor īryāpathaḥ saṃvṛtto 'bhūt; Mv iii.65.5 iryāpatho ( Senart em. īry°) sānaṃ saṃsthihe sayyathāpi nāma varṣaśatopasaṃpannānāṃ bhikṣūṇāṃ; similarly Mv ii.234.5 ; iii.92.10 (iryā instead of iryāpatho); 180.15 ; 181.7 ; 329.12 ; 413.13 ; Divy 37.3 (varṣaśatopasaṃpannasya) bhikṣor īryāpathenāvasthitaḥ; Av i.284.9 (dvādaśavarṣopasaṃpannasyeva) bhikṣor īryāpathena … avasthitaḥ; ( 4 ) as in Pali iriyāpatha, also used of four postures or bodily attitudes , that is modes of physical behavior , viz. walking, standing, sitting, and lying down: Mvy 212 vihāyasābhyudgamya caturvidham īryāpathaṃ kalpayati, mounting in the air, displays the four … (one of the abhijñākarmāṇi); Mv i.168.10 ( vs ) īryāpathāṃ (3 mss. iry°) darśayanti catvāraḥ puruṣottamāḥ, no ca pariśramas teṣāṃ …, Buddhas display the four modes of behavior (like other men), and yet they are never weary ( i.e. do not need to sit or lie down); AsP 520.12 dvābhyām everyāpathābhyāṃ sthitvā, sthānena caṅkrameṇa ca (only standing and walking; he vows not to sit or lie down) kālam atināmayeyaṃ, repeated ( var. ) 521.6 , which is cited Śikṣ 40.5 dvābhyām everyāpathābhyāṃ …; Gv 22.20 ff. , īryāpatha repeatedly of physical movements (walking, standing, and sitting, line 22) of ordinary (not [Page117-a] religious) men; LV 9.8 caturīryāpatha-vinayanopavana- (so read, text °naupavana-)-suvardhita-taror ( Tib. lus , body , for -taror, implying -tanor), (of the Bodhisattva) who possessed a ‘tree’ (body?) well-raised in the grove of (by?) exercise of the four modes of behavior ; LV 256.18 (ṣaḍvarṣā bodhisattvo yathā niṣaṇṇa evāsthāt paryaṅkena) na ca īryāpathāc (all mss. ca iry° or cery°) cyavate sma, and did not abandon the posture (of sitting cross-legged); Mv i.236.14 (here mss. iry°) = 241.8 ( vs ) īryāpathaṃ … sarvābhibhuno ( mss. °to) na vijahante ( i.e. they walk and stand still when he does, see prec. line); only three, tribhir īryāpathair … sthānena caṅkrameṇa niṣadyayā RP 45.18 .