avacara
-avacara (= Pali id. ; orig. noun, cf. Senart Mv i.397 , but only used at end of Bhvr. cpds. , having … as scope ; f. °rī ; called ‘ts.’ by CPD , but clearly a Buddhist word, as stated in pw s.v. ; found virtually only in Bu. works and Lexx. in Skt. ; otherwise occurs once in Rājat. (?), and, to be sure, yajñāvacará in MS. , see pw s.v. ; despite these rare Skt. occurrences belongs fundamentally to Pali and BHS , where it is very common); scope, sphere, range of activity or existence : antarīkṣāv° who live in the atmosphere SP 288.10 (devatāḥ); Mv i.33.5 (śuddhāvāsakāyika deva); dakṣiṇāvacara, vāmāv°, having the right ( left ; viz. part of the womb) as his abiding-place LV 55.5, 6 ; buddhaśāsanāv° Śikṣ 214.10 within the scope of the Buddhaʼs commands (wrongly Bendall ); saṃsārāvacarīṃ … samyagdṛṣṭim Śikṣ 316.16 , true views regarding the saṃsāra ; saṃskṛtāv° Gv 496.6 , things in the realm of the conditioned ; traidhātukāv° Bbh 246.25 , belonging to the sphere of the trai° ; caturbhir mārāv° Dbh 54.17 , with Rahder , citing a Jap. source, things belonging to the four Māra-domains , i.e. the domains of the four Māra , q.v. ; atarkāv° Mv iii.314.2 , not within the scope of reasoning (of dharma; so Pali atakkāv°, of dhamma); akṣudrāv° Mv ii.9.1 (of the Bodhisattvaʼs mother); ii.1.7 (of the family where the [Page071-a] Bodhisattva is born); antaḥpurāv° Jm 185.24 , whose business was the harem : turagāv° Buddhac. v.68 , groom ; esp. in kāmāv°, rūpāv°, arūpāv° (or ārūpyāv° ), of classes of gods, see under these entries. See also tāḍāvacara .