avalokita , ( 1 ) nt. , and once °tā , f. (= Pali °ta, oftener apalokita, nt. ), act of looking; a look, gaze : fem. only LV 227.9—10 anyonya-mukhāvalokitayā rudanti sma, they wept with a gazing look at each otherʼs faces ; nt. LV 84.5 siṃhāvalokitaṃ mahāpuruṣāvalokitaṃ vyavalokayati sma; LV 191.17 (prāsādikena) avalokita-vyavalokitena (see s.v. vyavalokita ), acc. to Tib. , looking forward ; Śikṣ 215.10 prasāritāvalokita-vilokita-supta-jāgarita-svaśarīragatopasthānaṃ; elsewhere in a similar cliché ālokita -(instead of ava°) -vilokita , q.v. ; esp. nāgāvalokita (= Pali id. , oftener °palokita), the gaze of an elephant (turning the whole body), Mv iii.55.18 sarvāvantena kāyena (so read with v.l. for text kālena) nāgāvalokitena; Divy 208.16—17 sarvakāyena nāgāvalokitena; Gv 48.15 nāgāvalokitena pratyudāvṛtya ( q.v. ); MSV i.62.17 ; ( 2 ) nt. , n. of a work (called a vyākaraṇaṃ Mv ii.257.13 ; 259.4 ; but a sūtraṃ in the colophons, 293.15 ; 397.7 ) imbedded in the Mv in two forms, following one another, ii.257.6—293.15 , and 293.16—397.7 . The second of these, under the name Avalokana- (or °nā- ) sūtra , q.v. , was used (in a rather widely variant form) as one of the sources of Śikṣ . ( 3 ) m. , said to be used for Avalokiteśvara , q.v. : Burnouf, Introd. 224 (and Skt. Lex. ).
avalokita p. p. Seen &c. — taH N. of a Buddha. — taM A look, glance; parivftyAvalokitaM R. 4. 72. Comp. — ISvaraH N. of a Bodhisattva worshipped by the northern Buddhists