DarmAloka
dharmāloka , m. , light of (? on) the doctrine ; acc. to Sūtrāl. xiv.26 comm. , āloka iti dharmanidhyānakṣānter etad adhivacanam, āloka is a synonym for ‘readiness to meditate on the doctrine’ (but generally the word seems to be an appositional karmadh.): (avidyāmohāndhakārasya) mahāntaṃ °kaṃ kuryāṃ LV 205.3 , may I make the great light of the doctrine against the darkness of ignorance and delusion ; dharmālokasyādarotpādanārthaṃ LV 395.16 , to produce respect for the light of the doctrine; (?) bodhisattvānāṃ … mahanto dharmāloko (but mss. dharma-loko) kṛto bhaviṣyati āśvāso ca datto bhavati Mv ii.294.5 (as a result of a requested statement by the Buddha on how he attained enlightenment); (-Kāraṇḍavyūhaṃ nāma) dharmālokaṃ nāma deśayitvā Kv 38.3 ; °ka-praveśa, (means of) ingress into the light of the doctrine (= °kamukha , see next) Dbh 38.1 , where ten such are listed, viz. sattva-dhātuvicāraṇālokapraveśair, and (substituting for sattva in the same cpd. ) loka-, dharma-, ākāśa-, vijñāna-, kāma-, rūpa-, ārūpya-, udārāśayādhimukti-, and māhātmyāśayādhimukti-. See under next.