niSraya
niśraya , m. (= Pali nissaya, not completely or perfectly described in the Dictt. ), fundamentally, support, basis ( Tib. gnas , place, abode, place of settlement ; or rten , support ): niśraya-bhūtaṃ sarvabodhisattvacaraṇa-tayā Gv 494.10 , it (bodhicitta) acts as a support, because it constitutes [Page307-a] legs for all Bodhisattvas ; niśraya … śraddha Śikṣ 3.7 ( vs ), faith is a support (see s.v. aiṣikā ); niśrayasaṃpanna Mv ii.259.14 ; 280.1 (here text wrongly niḥśraya°), perfect in the (five) supports or aids , for getting rid of evil and cultivating good; so in Pali nissayasaṃpanna AN iv.353.18 ; they are there listed in 21 ff. as saddhā, hiri, ottappa, viriya, paññā; by relying on (nissāya) them one akusalaṃ pajahati kusalaṃ bhāveti; in Mvy 820 Bodhisattvas are described as sarvapraṇidhāna-niśraya-vigata, for whom all basis for (further) praṇidhānas is removed (because they are already perfect in praṇidhānas , as stated in Mv ii.280.1 and substantially in 259.14 , along with niśrayasaṃpanna); app. support (of life; Tib. rten ) Mvy 1849 ; in Mvy 8669 °yaḥ ( Tib. gnas ), of the four technical ‘requisites’ or supports, supplies , which a Buddhist monk needs and is allowed, listed 8670—3 as vṛkṣamūlam (for sleeping), piṇḍapātaḥ (for food), pāṃsukūlaṃ (for garments), pūtimukta- ( q.v. ) -bhaiṣajyam (for medicine); the same four in Pali (nissaya); in this sense niśrayadāyaka, m. , a giver of … , Mvy 8731 ; in Bbh 193.2 also four, the list in 3—5 is (1) cīvara-, (2) piṇḍapāta-, (3) śayanāsanaṃ, and (4) glānapratyayabhaiṣajyapariṣkārāś ca; for nuns there are only three of these niśraya, since living in the woods, ‘at the foot of a tree’, is forbidden to them ( Vin. ii.278.14 ); hence trayo niśrayā(ḥ) Bhīk 22a.5—22b.1 ; na ca skandha-āyatana-dhātau (one cpd. word) niśrayu tubhya vidyati kadācit Gv 253.10 ( vs ), reliance (dependence) on (the external world), the being based on (it); in Mvy 5623 ( Tib. gnas or rten ) the context suggests residence, fixed abode (between āspadam and niketaḥ); in KP 103.1 tatra na śikṣā na niśrayo nāniśrayaḥ, the exact mg. is not too clear, and Tib. as printed in ed. omits this phrase; perhaps as in niśraya-saṃpanna, above, there is no instruction, no support and no non-support (for moral development) (?); Chin. no keeping nor not keeping of the moral code ; niśrayāhṛta (lābha), received thru support , MSV ii.109.8 , explained 112.15 ff.