saMgIti
saṃgīti , f. (in Skt. as n. of a meter, otherwise only Lex. , and once in Schmidt, Nachträge , conversation ; in Pali comes nearer to BHS usage, see esp. Childers , but still acc. to Dictt. is not identical), ( 1 ) singing (so in Pali ; perh. esp. in unison, choral singing? ), music ( esp. vocal ): Mvy 5022 (after tūryam) = Tib. glu dbyaṅs ; apsarasaḥ- … -saṃgīti … LV 10.22 ; apsara-saṃgīti-rutena Gv 252.5 ; divya-°tiṣu ratir na bhavati Gv 118.24 ; (Śuddhodana speaks to the princeʼs female attendants, mā sma kadācit) °tiṃ vichetsyatha LV 193.1 , similarly 12; °ti-prāsāda, music-hall , LV 41.10 (Śuddhodanasya; = Tib. rol mo bya baḥi , for making music ); Bodhisattva-°ti-prāsāda Gv 385.18—19 (the young princeʼs music-hall in Kapilavastu, named Dharmadhātupratibhāsaprabha ); sama-, or samaṃ, saṃgīti, chanting in unison , ( sc. Mahā-brahmāṇaḥ) ekasvareṇa sama-( v.l. samaṃ; is this also part of cpd. with next?)saṃgītyā taṃ bhagavantam ābhiḥ … gāthābhir adhyabhāṣanta SP 167.3 ; virtually same phrase 170.12 ; 173.13 ; 178.8 ; 271.6 ; 401.1 ; 402.3 ; some mss. sometimes reported saṃgītya, which must be an error; with one voice, in united choral chanting, addressed … with these verses (in 401.1 bhagavata imāni dhāraṇīmantrapadāni prayacchanti sma); ( 2 ) esp. in dharma-°ti, recitation or pronouncement of the true Doctrine: (mahāvimāne, in heaven … mahāvipuladharma-)-saṃgīti-( Tib. yaṅ dag par brjod pas , by perfect speech, expression )-sarvakāmarativegakleśachedane LV 11.5 ; saṃgītikuśalās tathāgatadharmāṇām SP 312.3 , skilled in proclaiming the Buddhaʼs Doctrine ( Tib. as on LV 11.5 ); (after statement that a Bodhisattva will preach the Doctrine) bhavanti cāsya dharma-°tyāṃ sahāyakā(ḥ) SP 286.7 , and he will have assistants in proclaiming the Doctrine , not, I think, [Page548-a] in assemblies or a synod , with Burnouf and Kern ; Tib. here (chos) yaṅ dag par ḥgro baḥi ; for the last read bgro baḥi , see s.v. Saṃgītiparyāya ; ḥgro = go , but bgro = argue, discuss, deliberate, consider ; so Tib. in discussion of the Doctrine ; (Mahākāśyapaḥ …) dharma-°tiṃ kartukāmaḥ Av ii.204.12 (after Buddhaʼs nirvāṇa; but there is no mention of a council! ), and so in the title of the story, saṃgītiḥ 197.1 , proclamation, public declaration ( sc. of the Doctrine); prob. here also, satyasaṃgītiḥ kulaputra dharmasaṃgītiḥ Śikṣ 12.8—9 , cited from Dharmasaṃgīti-sūtra, proclamation of the Doctrine is (the same as) proclamation of Truth ( Bendall and Rouse , to be in concert with … ); ( 3 ) in Pali (see Childers ) used of the rehearsal of sacred texts at one of the Councils of Buddhist monks, also of these Councils themselves, as ‘rehearsals’ , and finally of the collections ( esp. the four great nikāya = BHS āgama) of texts rehearsed . This meaning, or these meanings, seem related, at least possibly, to the following: saṃgīti-kāraḥ Mvy 2762 , acc. to Tib. yaṅ dag par sdud par byed pa , one who puts into a grand collection , i.e. who helps to establish the canon; etymologically the word could mean one who makes a proclamation (of the Doctrine); rājabhāryā sarvabuddha-°tiṃ sarvabuddhadharmaguhyasthānāni ca saṃjānīte sma SP 464.3 , Tib. saṅs rgyas thams cad kyis kun bstan pa = what has been completely taught by all the Buddhas (could be taken with 2, above, as well as here); (after Buddhaʼs nirvāṇa, his disciples mantrayanti …) nirvṛtisamayakāle ( Senart em. nirvṛtī-, m.c. ; mss. °la-)saṃgītiṃ ( Senart ʼs em. , corrupt mss. mostly samaṃgīti) Mv i.69.4 ( vs ), here possibly common rehearsal or ‘council’ , but could also mean merely proclamation ; ( 4 ) rehearsal = study, conning, memorizing, learning , of non-Buddhist religious texts: (a brahman lad) Uttareṇa tahiṃ (to the sage Asita) gatvā vedā adhītā; so dāni saṃgītiṃ kṛtvā pituḥ sakāśam āgato Mv iii.383.1 , he studied the Vedas; he now, after having made a complete rehearsal (or memorization , of them), came home to his father ; (tāni parivrājaka-)śāstrāṇi (as taught by Saṃjayin Vairaṭīputra) saṃgītī- ( mss. °tiṃ) kṛtvā ( having rehearsed , or memorized ) Rājagṛhaṃ praviṣṭā Mv iii.59.18 (they had already lost faith in the value of these doctrines, line 14).