avatAra
avatāra , m. (= Pali otāra, esp. in mg. 4) [( 1 ) as in Skt. , descent, appearance (on earth), e.g. Mv ii.263.6 °raṃ gacchati, appears, is born ;] ( 2 ) entrance into, attainment of (a moral state), LV 182.10 -mahākaruṇāvatāra-tāṃ, state of attainment of great compassion ; so, perhaps (or to 3), pratisaṃvid-avatāro and pratiśaraṇāvatāro, LV 35.16 and 17; Samādh 19.6 mahākaruṇāvatārābhimukhāni cittāni, thoughts tending to attainment of great compassion ; ( 3 ) intellectual penetration, comprehension ( cf. avatarati ): LV 423.2 and 11 and Gv 469.9 pratītyāvatāra-, penetration, comprehension of (origination by) dependence , see pratītya ; LV 423.5 ekaviṣaya-sarvadharma-samatāvatāra-cakraṃ wheel of the comprehension of the equality of all substantial states as belonging to one sphere ; followed in cpd. by (-jñāna)-kuśala or -kauśalya, clever(-ness) in (the knowledge of) the penetration of … ( Tib. ḥjug pa , entrance ), -avatāra-kuśala Mvy 856, 858 ; -kauśalya RP 8.10 ; -avatāra-jñāna-kuśala LV 8.13 ; Mvy 835 ; -svabhāvāvatāra(-tā) RP 4.13, 15 ; in Mv i.47.6 = 81.15 meter (supported by some [Page071-b] readings of mss. ) indicates reading jñānasāgar'avatāra nāyakā(ḥ), the cpd. agreeing with preceding mānasaṃ, (a mind) that penetrates into the ocean of knowledge ; avatāreṇa, by penetration , Gv 40.2 ; yathāsvam avatāraiḥ (so read) Gv 253.19 ; avatārataḥ Bbh 80.4 ; avatāraḥ Bbh 80.22 ; 81.6 ; -sukhopāyāvatāra-dharmadeśanatā Bbh 82.18 , preaching doctrines that are capable of comprehension by easy means ; mahāyāna-samudayāvatāra-nirdeśanām avatarati Dbh 56.14—15 ; ( 4 ) (way of) entrance, ingress in the sense of opportunity for hostile approach; weak spot , often as object of a form of labh or adhi-gam, find, obtain , the subject often being Māra the Evil One, so SP 145.3 (na ca tatra māraḥ pāpīyān) avatāraṃ lapsyate ( om. WT with v.l. ); esp. often in cpds. avatāra-prekṣin ( cf. Pali otārāpekkha), avatāra- (or raṃ) -gaveṣin, looking for, seeking a point of attack , these two often together and esp. with Māra as subject; SP 474.6 and 7 na … avatāraprekṣy avatāragaveṣy avatāraṃ lapsyate; SP 398.1 na … °raprekṣy … avatāraṃ lapsyate; LV 47.10 ( vs ) yasyāvatāra ( acc. sg. ; so divide) labhate na manaḥ praduṣṭam; LV 260.18 avatāraprekṣī avatāragaveṣī (māraḥ, bodhisattvasya) … (19) na … avatāram adhyagacchat; Mv iii.298.16 °ram adhigantum; avatārārthī (= °ra-prekṣī) avatāraṃgaveṣī, of Māra, with reference to the Bodhisattva, Mv ii.241.5 ; of the daughters of Māra Mv iii.286.10 ; 299.4 ; avatāraprekṣī skhalitāṃ gaveṣī RP 18.10 ; avatāra-prekṣin also Mvy 5357 ; Divy 322.7 ; Śikṣ 152.9 ; śatruvad avatāraprekṣī 230.14 ; avatāragaveṣin Divy 322.7 ; (Māraḥ …) avatāraṃ labhiṣyati Samādh 22.35 .
(masc, masc) descending, entering, plunging into [lit.] crossing down