pAramitA · feminine
pāramitā (= Pali id. , to prec. plus -tā; in Pali synonym of pāramī or °mi in all respects), ( 1 ) = prec. , mastery, supremacy, perfection , in general sense, cpd. with preceding attribute indicating the field of mastery: garbhāvakrānti-°tā Mv i.214.12 = ii.17.11 , supremacy (supremeness, perfection) as regards entry into the womb ; sarvakuśaladharma-vaśibhāva-°tāṃ Mv ii.261.7 ; jina-°tāve 402.22 ( of the Jinas ); uttama-damatha-śamatha-°tā-prāpta Mv iii.64.6 ( cf. i.237.12 s.v. pārami ); sarvacetovaśi-(see vaśin )-parama-°tā-prāpta LV 425.22 (prose); in LV 376.18 ( vs ), read probably daśabalaguṇa-pāramita-( m.c. for °tā, which all mss. read; Lefm. em. °mi-)-prāptaṃ; possibly to be classed with (2) below are mahopāyakauśalyajñāna-( 29.10 adds darśana-)-parama-°tā-prāpta SP 29.10 ; 77.8 (both prose); ( 2 ) one or more of a technical list of (usually six, sometimes ten, rarely five or seven) supreme virtues , of Buddhas, or (to be cultivated by) Bodhisattvas; usually rendered perfection ; Burnouf, Lotus 544 ( App. VII deals with this category) vertu transcendante ; the lit. mg. was surely supremacy: (five) SP 334.2 °tāḥ pañca (and pañca is v.l. for ṣaṭ ca SP 142.7 ); pañcasu °tāsu SP 332.10 (prose), listed in the foll. as dāna, śīla, kṣānti, vīrya, dhyāna; but a sixth, prajñā-p°, is separately mentioned after the list in 333.1 ; ( six ) listed, as just cited from SP 332.10 ff. , Dharmas 17 ( cf. 18 cited below); Mv iii.226.2 ff. ; Divy 476.2 ff. ; Bbh 4.13 ff. ; 58.16 f. ; Laṅk 237.6 ; Sūtrāl. xvi.2 and 3, comm. ; described in brief statements Śikṣ 187.5—15 ; in Kv 50.16 ff. with substitution of dhairya for vīrya; without listing, but with number 6, SP 17.15 ; 142.7 ( v.l. pañca, above); 256.10 ; 259.3 ; 262.1 ; 264.10 ; Divy 95.19 ; 265.2 ; 490.16 , [Page342-a] 18 Av i.7.4 ; 16.13 ; Suv 37.13 ; 42.7 ; RP 21.7 ; ( seven ) the above six plus upayakauśalya-( LV mahopā° and adds parama-)-paramitā SP 457.11—12 ; LV 8.2—3 ; also LV 34.20 ff. (with upāyakauśalaṃ); ( ten ,) the above seven (with upāya for upāyakauśalya in Mvy , Dharmas [upāyaṃ, nom. !], Gv ) plus praṇidhāna ( Dharmas praṇidhi), bala, jñāna, Mvy 913—923 ; Dharmas 18 (immediately after 17 which lists the six); Bbh 371 5 ff. ; and in Gv 295.10—25 where, curiously, the same list is given but called mahāvitānadharma , q.v. , instead of pāramitā; in Pali , be it noted, the list is (so far as has been recorded) always ten in number, but not quite the same as in BHS : dāna, sīla, nekkhamma, paññā, viriya, khanti, sacca, adhiṭṭhāna, mettā (or metti, Childers ), upe(k)khā; in Pali they are called pāramī as well as °mitā; note further a list of ten jñāna-pāramitā-vihāra in Gv 537.11 ff. , not noted elsewhere, seemingly a nonce-elaboration of the tenth (jñāna) pāramitā; pāramitā without indication of number, LV 274.21 (sarva-°tāsu pāraṃgataḥ); Bhad 19 ; individual members of the category, dhyāna-p° SP 335.10 ; dāna-p° Mv i.102.5 ; esp. frequent is prajñā-p° , q.v. , Mv iii.67.4 ; LV 179.14—15 ; 427.17 ; and passim in ŚsP , AsP , and other works of this school which makes prajñā-p° its central point; the word is rendered in Tib. pha rol tu phyin pa , going to the other shore , a fantastic etymological rendering, as if from pāram plus a form of root i; often forms of (pari-)pūrayati, and noun or adj. derivs. , are used governing pāramitā, e.g. SP 256.10 (°tānāṃ paripūryai); Kv 50.16 ff. (each °tā paripūrayitavyā)
completeness; perfection
Pāramitā (feminine) [pāramī + tā] = pāramī Nett 87.
(fem, fem, abstr, from pārami) perfection; ultimate state (of) completeness, perfection [lit.] furthest Construction: para > pāra + ma + *ī + tā pāramī + tā