nArAyaRa
Nārāyaṇa , ( 1 ) (also Mahā-n° , q.v. ; presumably the name of the Hindu god, but used in BHS as a proverbially powerful personage; so also in Pali , see DPPN s.v. Nārāyana-saṃghāṭa-bala, ‘name given to a certain measure of physical strength … [it] was the strength of the Buddha’ ; but in MPS 31.21 Buddha has the power of many hundreds of Nārāyaṇas): Nārāyaṇa-balam Mvy 8214 = Tib. sred med buḥi ( of Nārāyaṇa , so Das ; lit. seems to mean of son of the desireless one ) stobs ( strength ); °ṇa-sthāmavān LV 109.11 ; 110.8 ; 291.15 (all vss ), having the might of N. ( Tib. on the last, sred med bu yi mthu ldan pa ); °ṇasaṃhananakāyaḥ SP 428.9—10 , said of a Bodhisattva; °ṇa-saṃhananaḥ MSV i.271.10 ; vajradṛḍha abhedya nārāyaṇo ātmabhāvo guru LV 202.17 ( vs ) = Tib. sku ( body ) ni sred med bu yi stobs ldan ( having the strength of N. ), which seems to imply that Tib. took nārāyaṇo as an adj. , Nārāyaṇa-like (in strength); it could perhaps be understood as for °ṇa-, in comp. with -ātmabhāva ( § 8.12 ), having the body of a N. ( i.e. like N. ); sarvaparvasu caikasmin (read caikaikasmin?) parvaṇi Nārāyaṇa-bala-saṃniviṣṭatā ( … a state of being invested with the power of N. ) Bbh 74.27 ; see the similar cases s.vv. Ardhanārāyaṇa, Mahānārāyaṇa ; ( 2 ) n. of a Buddha: Śikṣ 169.12 ; ( 3 ) n. of a yakṣa: Suv 161.6 ; ( 4 ) n. of a nāga king: Māy 247.4 .