pratiBAsa
pratibhāsa , m. (in this sense unrecorded elsewhere; also used as in Skt. in mgs. appearance , Dbh 16.4 , presentation to the mind , LV 397.15 ), reflected image : (śakrasya … devānāṃ ca) °saḥ saṃdṛśyate sma LV 69.6 (so Tib. , gzugs brñan ; possibly however only actual, literal appearance , as in Skt. ); commonly as (mere) semblance , with emphasis on unreality , (kāmaguṇāḥ) … pratibhāsasamā naṭaraṅgasamāḥ. LV 174.6 ; māyā-marīci-svapnodakacandra-pratiśrutkā-pratibhāsa- LV 181.21 ; 428.14 ; in similar lists Mvy 854 ; Dbh 47.14 ; Dbh.g. 29(55).3 ; (parallel with chāyā, svapna, pratiśrutkā) Gv 468.21 ; with things of [Page367-a] no value, tṛṇa-kāṣṭha-kuḍya-( Dbh adds vartma-)-pratibhāsopama Dbh 18.14 ; Śikṣ 201.9 (here said of the body, as also in) Śikṣ 272.10 and (ātma-pratibhāsavat, like an illusion, illusory image, of self ) Śikṣ 199.6 ; saṃsārasāgari anantān darśayase gatīyu ( gen. sg. ) °sān Gv 253.13 ( vs ), in the ocean of saṃsāra thou displayest endless semblances of (human) fate(s) ; in Bbh 282.7 of toys, imitations of real things; in Dbh.g. 40(66).13 of the reflection of sun and moon in water.