saMgrahavastu
saṃgraha-vastu , nt. (= Pali saṃgahavatthu), article of attraction , means by which a Buddha or (more often in BHS ) a Bodhisattva attracts , draws to himself and to religious life, creatures. The literal mg. has been much disputed; it seems to me clarified by LV 429.13 where reference is made to the Buddhaʼs cleverness in drawing-in creatures (sattvasaṃgrahakauśalyaṃ) by the net (-jālena) of the 4 saṃgrahavastu ; with this cf. Gv 495.20 , cited s.v. saṃgraha . As in Pali , there are four of these: dāna, priya-vacana (or the like), artha-caryā (or -kriyā ), and samānārthatā (or samānasukhaduḥkhatā ), qq.v. ; they are listed LV 38.16—17 ; 160.6—7 ; 182.6 ; 429.12—13 ; Mv i.3.11—12 ; ii.395.8—9 (without use of the term saṃgraha-vastu); Mvy 924—928 ; Dharmas 19 ; Bbh 217.2—230.19 , the inclusive term 227.5 ; 230.19 ; without lists of the 4 items, SP 259.5 ; LV 35.9 ; 437.15 ; Mvy 793 ; Divy 95.15 ; 264.29 ; Śikṣ 50.11 ; Av i.16.12 ; Gv 495.17 (in most of these the number four is specified). Sometimes replaced by saṃgraha , q.v. , alone.