balADAna
-balādhāna , nt. ( Skt. bala plus Skt. ādhāna, on this use of which see pw s.v. ādhāna 6), assumption, attainment, of (usually some particular) power (said of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas): Mv i.134.11—12 kṛtaniścaya-balādhānāś ca bhavanti (Bodhisattvas); SP 316.1 śṛṇudhvam idam evaṃrūpaṃ mamādhiṣṭhāna-balādhānam; 414.4 (bodhisattvasya) jñānabalādhānena puṇyabalādhānena ca (as manifested in his ‘act of truth’, satyādhiṣṭhāna); 420.7 evaṃ jñānabalādhānaprāptaḥ sa … bodhisattvo bhaviṣyati, this B. will be thus arrived at attainment of the power of knowledge ; 426.6—7 tathāgatabalādhānena, by the T. ʼs acquisition of (the) power(s) (appropriate to him) .