pratyeka
pratyeka- , adj. , chiefly as prior member of cpds. (but cf. pratyekāṃ bodhiṃ Divy 294.10 ; Av i.99.17 ; °kāyāṃ bodhau Divy 70.6 ; 209.16 ; °kā bodhiḥ Av i.136.7 ), primarily as in Skt. , for a single person, individual, personal ; esp. common in pratyekabuddha and other cpds. showing this mg. , see the foll. items; in some BHS cpds. , in part with equivalents in Pali , this seems to have developed special connotations, possibly owing to the standard contrast between a pratyekabuddhaʼs rating (far inferior) and that of a real (samyak-saṃ-)buddha. So pratyekaniraya ( Pali pacceka-n°) or °naraka seems clearly to be a place of less severe punishment than a (mahā-, or regular) niraya: note Mv i.103.(7—)9 (yadi kecit, sc. bodhisattvāḥ, kathaṃcid … avīciṃ mahānirayaṃ gacchanti, atha khalu) pratyekanirayaṃ gacchanti (text adds, they are never born as pretas, asuras, etc. ); also Mv ii.350.10, 12 ; pratyekanarakaḥ Mvy 4944 = Tib. ñi tshe baḥi ( ephemeral; single, simple , Jä. ; Das adds, very small, minute; animals that do not live more than a day ) sems can ( creatures ) dmyal ba ( hell ), app. then a hell in which creatures live for a short time ; Chin. individual hell ; no Jap. rendering; iha pratyekanarakeṣūpapannāḥ … asmābhir itaś cyutair narakeṣūpapattavyaṃ bhaviṣyati ( app. for further, more serious punishment) Divy 335.25 ; bahuśaṅkur nāma pratyekanarakaḥ Śikṣ 57.1 ; śramaṇavarṇapratirūpakaṃ nāma pra°narakaṃ ( n. sg. !) Śikṣ 136.10 ; °narakān Bbh 151.16 ; °narakaḥ Karmav 53.13—14 ; (tasminn eva janmani) pratyekasvargaṃ pra°narakaṃ ( n. sg. ) cānubhūtam 57.2 (refers to story of which 53.13—14 is part); here private, personal heaven and hell seem to fit, since the one who experiences both seems to be a single individual (at a given time; a former inhabitant of the pra°naraka is released as the new one arrives); pratyeka-rājan Mv ii.270.10 (see s.v. pṛthu ), contrasting with cakravartin, either minor, subordinate , or individual (belonging to a single land?); [Page379-a] pratyeka-brahman (= Pali pacceka°, PTSD an independent Brahma ), Karmav 34.8 , see s.v. Baka ( Lévi , devenu un des Brahmas , which can hardly suffice); in Mv i.103.1 , most strangely, the words brāhmaṇa and pratyeka-brā° seem used for (the god) Brahman and pratyeka-brahman: (bodhisattvā avaivartikadharmā … never enter an evil existence,) atha khalu brāhmaṇā bhavanti pratyekabrāhmaṇā vā indrāś ca upendrāś ca yakṣādhipatayaś ca yakṣāś ca … (note parallelism between pratyeka-br°, contrasting with br°, and upendra and yakṣa, contrasting with Indra and yakṣādhipati).