pAtayantika
pātayantika , adj. , and °kā , subst. (for alternative Pali and BHS forms see below), causing fall (to an evil existence, if not repented and expiated); this is clearly the usual Northern interpretation; one of the three main kinds of monkish transgressions, the others being pārājika and saṃghāvaśeṣa , qq.v. : as adj. , °ka with dharma, (trayāṇāṃ dharmāṇām anyatamānyatamena dharmeṇa vadet pārājikena vā saṃghāvaśeṣeṇa vā) pātayantikena vā Prāt 489.(1—)3, and ff. ; there are 30 offenses called niḥsargikāḥ ( q.v. ) pātayantikā dharmāḥ 490.8 , listed in the following where each is called °gikā °yantikā ( subst. fem. ), 490.11—12 and ff. ; they are followed by 90 pātayantikā dharmāḥ 502.13 , each again styled pātayantikā ( subst. fem. ) 502.15 ff. ; °tikā dharmāḥ also Mvy 8417 = Tib. ltuṅ byed , lit. making fall , usually rendered transgression ; the Pali correspondents are 30 nissaggiyā pācittiyā dhammā Vin. iii.195.1 , each one styled nissaggiyaṃ pācittiyaṃ ( nt. , not f. ) id. 18, etc. , followed by 92 pācittiyā dhammā, Vin. iv.1 , each one styled pācittiyaṃ 2.14 ff. On the various forms of Pali and BHS see (besides older treatments, now obsolete) S. Lévi, JA. Nov.—Dec. 1912 , 506—8 , and esp. Waldschmidt, Kl. Skt. Texte 3 . 116 f. , who says inter alia: ‘ In den späteren Turfanfragmenten erscheint ganz allgemein als Sanskritform pātayantikā ’ (so e.g. op. cit. 41.1 ). He notes that pāteti is used in Pali in explaining pācittiya, Vin. v.148.30 , and that pātayati is similarly used in BHS in explaining the mg. of other (substitute) forms, see below. He states that Chin. , like Tib. (regularly ltuṅ byed , above), supports this mg. On the other hand he reports a BHS ms. reading pāca(tt)i, which reminds one of the Pali form; and shows that pātayantika, and other alternative forms, are rendered in ways which suggest association (certainly unhistorical) with root pac-; he cites a passage ( p. 117 ) reading pātayantikā, pacati dahati uddahati avyutthitasyāvaraṇakṛtyaṃ karoti, tenāha pātayantikā, and compares Divy 544.10 pāyantiketi (text pāpānti°, as also 543.24 ; in 544.15 mss. pāyantikām, read thus all three times with Lévi l. c. above) dahati pacati pātayati (so with Lévi for text yāt°). Besides the popular etymology pāpāntikā of the Divy mss. , just cited, Das gives pāpātmikā for Tib. ltuṅ byed . The same word is read pāyattikāḥ ( sc. dharmāḥ) [Page340-b] Mvy 8360 ; (naiḥsargikāḥ, q.v. , = niḥsa°) pāyattikāḥ 8383 , and pāpattikā ( f. ) 9223 , but with vv.ll. in one or more of these places (besides pāyattikā in the last) pāyantika (pāyantikām āpattim, acc. , MSV ii.174.9 ), pāpantika, pāṭāyantika, pātavantika, ( acc. to Waldschmidt also pādayantika,) and with °kā as subst. f. (pāyantikayā, instr. , MSV iii.109.20 ). There is moreover (besides pācatti cited by Waldschmidt above) prāyaścittikāḥ ( sc. dharmāḥ) Mvy 8418 (śuddha-p°, acc. to Tib. only, merely prāy° , ḥbaḥ zhig tu ḥgyur ba ); (snāna-)prāyaścittikaṃ 8484 (both these = Tib. ltuṅ byed ); and prāyaścittikaḥ ( sc. dharmaḥ) Mvy 9307 (= Tib. ltuṅ ba , fall ), which is followed by śuddha- ( Tib. ma ḥdres pa , unmixed ) -pāpattikaḥ ( sc. dharmaḥ; Tib. again ltuṅ ba , = prec. ) 9308 , cf. 8418 above, and s.v. śuddhaka . Lévi l. c. points out the phonetic difficulty of deriving Pali pācittiya from BHS prāyaścittika, and proposes an orig. *prākcitta plus -ika, thru *paccittika to pāci°, la pensée en avant , = either ( des actes commis ) avec précipitation , or qui précipitent ( aux enfers ). He cites a Tocharian loan pāyti , which he says goes back to pāyantika . It is obvious that the orig. form and mg. of the word can not be confidently reconstructed.