DAraRI
dhāraṇī (recorded nowhere except in BHS ), magic formula : often consisting of meaningless combinations of syllables (which this Dict. does not record), as e.g. Suv 105.6—8 ; 106.8, 11, 15 ff. ; 108.11 ff. ; in Tib. regularly gzuṅs , lit. hold, support , or ( Mvy 4239 ) gzuṅs sṅags (= mantra, incantation ); names of 12 Bodhisattva-dhāraṇī, Mvy 746—758 ; names of 10 dhāraṇī-maṇḍala Gv 305.18 ff. (not listed in Dict. ); a list of dhāraṇī-names (not listed here) Mmk 12.20 ff. ; four kinds, ātma-, grantha-, dharma-, mantra-dh° Dharmas 52 ; another list of four, Bbh 272.13 ff. , all defined, dharma-dh° (by which a Bodhisattva is able to remember a book on merely hearing it, without study), artha-dh° (same, except ‘its meaning’ is remembered), mantra-dh° (by which he acquires charms to allay all plagues, īti), bodhisattvakṣāntilābhāya dh°; °ṇī-pratilabdha, having obtained (being in possession of) a dh° SP 263.4 ; 270.8 ; Dbh 46.12 ; sarvabodhisattvadhāraṇīpratibhānapratilabdhaiḥ LV 2.6 ; °ṇī-pratilambha, acquisition of dh° , SP 327.5 ; koṭīnayutaśatasahasraparivartāyā dhāraṇyāḥ pratilambho 8, acquisition of the dh. which makes (very many) revolutions (an amulet-wheel?); °ṇī-mantrapadāni SP 396.3 , talismanic charm-words , or words of dhāraṇīs and mantras ; mantra-dhāraṇī-padāni 397.2—3 ; dhāraṇī-padāni 397.6 ff. ; °ṇī-mudrā Mvy 4297 ; sarvadharma-dhāraṇy-asaṃpramoṣitaḥ LV 275.6 ; others, Mvy 782 ; 4239 ; Divy 616.14 ; Kv 84.9 ; Suv 30.5 ; 103.1 .