DarmatA
dharmatā (= Pali dhammatā), natural and normal custom, habit, natural condition, what is to be expected, normal state, rule, standard custom, ordinary thing ; (as in Pali ) often in n. sg. , frequently at the beginning of a sentence and often followed by khalu (sometimes hi), (you are to know that) it is the regular thing , often then gen. of person, as e.g. buddhānāṃ, rarely loc. , and a clause stating what the ‘regular thing’ is; but sometimes also referring to what precedes: dharmatā (usually foll. by khalu or hi) … Mv i.338.19 (… (i)yaṃ teṣāṃ sattvānāṃ …); iii.255.17 (… buddhānāṃ …); Divy 3.2 ; 18.8 ; 67.16 , etc. ; Av i.4.6 ; 10.6 , etc. ; Jm 88.3 ; 98.16 ; iyam atra dharmatā LV 219.5 ; RP 10.9 ; dharmatā hy eṣā dharmāṇāṃ Laṅk 9.4 ( vs ), for this is the normal condition of states-of-existence ; lokahitāna dharmatā SP 392.2 ( vs ); buddhānāṃ eṣā (read with v.l. eṣa, m.c. ) dharmatā Mv iii.327.12 ( vs ); loc. , eṣa buddheṣu dharmatā Ud xxi.12 (same vs with gen. in Pali AN ii.21.22 ); dharmatā-pratilambha eṣa caramabhāvikānāṃ bodhisattvānāṃ … LV 161.12 (here I fail to see that -pratilambha adds anything in particular; the cpd. seems to mean about the same as dharmatā alone, it is the established, normal procedure … ); (bodhisattvasya …) abhijñādharmatā LV 85.10 , normal state of (having the) abhijñā ; dharmatā-prāpta Mv i.301.8 , arrived at the normal (correct, to-be-expected) state , said of the mind of a Pratyekabuddha; pratyātma-dharmatā-śuddhaṃ (nayaṃ) Laṅk 8.1 ( vs ); śruṇuya yo ti dharmatāṃ LV 54.2 ( vs ), who ever hears your true nature (regular procedure; contrasted with one who just sees or listens, i.e. to a few words); lokānuvartanakriyā-dharmatāṃ anuvartya LV 179.18 ; jarādharmatāyām anatītāḥ Mv ii.151.7 , not free from (subjection to) the normal condition of old age ; jātidharmatāyāḥ ( abl. ) Av i.211.15 , from the normal condition [Page278-b] of birth ; instr. , by the method (means) of …, by way of … : (śatana-patana-vikiraṇa-)vidhvaṃsana-dharmatayā Divy 180.24 ; 281.31 ; atyantakṣīṇakṣaya-dharmatayā (so, as cpd. ) niruddhāḥ LV 419.16 ( vs ), Tib. śin tu zad ciṅ byaṅ baḥi chos-ñid-kyis (dharmatayā) ni ḥgags ; paramagatigato 'si dharmatāye Mv iii.381.8 , you have gone to the highest goal according to your natural, normal procedure ; dharmatāṃ vā pratisaraty Bbh 255.13 , see pratisarati . In Bhad 3 Leumann interprets dharmata-dhātuṃ as m.c. for dharmatā-dh° which he assumes = dharma-dh°; but dharmata is rather for °taḥ, abl. of dharma, as a separate word.