SamaTa
śamatha , often written sa°, m. (= Skt. Lex. id. , Pali samatha), ( 1 ) tranquillity, tranquillization ; esp. often assoc. with vipaśyanā or (less often) its syn. vidarśanā , see these two; when cpd. they form a dvandva, never a tatp. as suggested erroneously in PTSD (in every passage there quoted samatha and vipassanā are parallel and coordinate, usually not even cpd. ); also often with dama- (tha): dama-śamatham ākāṅkṣamāṇā(ḥ) SP 80.9 ; damasamathe LV 169.5 ( vs ); paramadama-samatha- 427.22 ; [Page523-b] ātma-dama-( iii.52.18 °damatha-)-śamatha-pariṇirvāṇārthaṃ Mv ii.157.5 ; iii.52.18 ; uttama-damatha (so Senart , but mss. dama) -śamatha-pāramitā- iii.64.6 ; śamathasaṃbhāra LV 35.14 ; 427.21 ; śamatha-sukha-vyavasthitaḥ Laṅk 15.4 ; smara … śamathaṃ LV 11.14 ; samathadhanu gṛhītvā LV 156.5 ( vs ), taking the bow of … ; samathanirvāṇa-puram anupravekṣyāmi Mv ii.148.6 ; tranquillization of the mind as a process, a course of practice, dvādaśavarṣābhyastaḥ śamathaś (or sa°) cittasya Divy 47.3 ; 461.20 ; adhyātmaṃ ( adv. ) cetaḥśamathaṃ (riñcanti) MSV iii.11.18 ; sarva( iii.314.5 pūrva)-saṃskāra-samatho (so read in ii.285.20 ) or °tha- Mv ii.285.20 ; iii.314.5 , the tranquillizing of (all) the (former) saṃskāra , cf. Pali sabbasaṃkhārasamatho Vin. i.5.2 ; ( 2 ) (= Pali adhikaraṇa-sa°) adhikaraṇaśamathā(ḥ), settling, appeasement, of disputed questions : Mvy 8630 (see adhikaraṇa 1).