saMjYA
saṃjñā , ifc. Bhvr. -saṃjña ( cf. Skt. id. ; the Skt. mgs. sign, signal , and name , are also BHS ; note esp. vaidya-saṃjñāṃ ghoṣayitvā Divy 109.21 , proclaiming the title of physician = saying that he was a physician ; Pali saññā is used in most of the mgs. listed below; Tib. regularly ḥdu śes , a mechanically literal rendering), ( 1 ) awareness, consciousness , as a generalized faculty, fundamentally as in Skt. : cf. visaṃjña, unconscious (in a swoon, or the like) = Skt. id. , e.g. SP 104.8 ; technical uses, see saṃjñāvedayita-(vedita-)-nirodha, naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana (°nopaga) ; ( 2 ) not clearly distinguishable from prec. , notion, conception, idea , of anything in the external world: the third of the five (upādāna-)skandha (as in Pali ), see upādāna (sometimes rendered perception ); when the Bodhisattva sat down at the bodhi-tree, he received (pratilabhati) at once five saṃjñā, ideas or impressions , viz. kṣema-s°, sukha-, śubha-, hita-, and (fifthly) adya cāhaṃ anuttarāṃ samyaksaṃbodhim abhisaṃbuddhiṣyati (so mss. , Senart em. °ṣyaṃ ti) Mv ii.268.6—8 , and similarly 404.17—19 , where the fifth is substantially the same, the others being atīta-s°, kṣema-, sukha-, aśakya- (neither passage explains the first four); aśubha-saṃjñā (= Pali asubha-saññā), conceptions of foul things which must be meditated on by monks, see s.v. aśubha-bhāvanā ; often prec. in comp. by other words specifying the emotional or intellectual content of the saṃjñā, (na ca) anityasaṃjñā-bahulā viharanti Mv i.79.15 , and (backsliders) dwell not abounding in the notion of the impermanence (of sentient existence, as they ought to); parikatha bhikṣu yadī na bhāra-saṃjñā LV 242.22 ( vs ), speak, monk, if you are not conscious of a burden (in doing as I ask), wrongly Foucaux on Skt. and Tib. ( khur gyi ḥdu śes med na gsuṅs ); in a neg. , or impliedly or quasi- neg. , expression, something like the very idea, thought , āhāra-saṃjñā ca na tatra bheṣyati anyatra dharme rati dhyānaprītiḥ ( Nep. mss. jñāna°) SP 206.1 ( vs ), and there will be no thought or idea of food, other than delight in the Doctrine and joy in meditation ; adhimāna-saṃjñāṃ ca vihāya sarvāṃ SP 287.8 ( vs ), and abandoning every thought of pride ; sukhaṃ vinaśyatī teṣāṃ sukha-saṃjñā ca naśyati SP 177.5 ( vs ), … and the very notion of happiness was lost ; tena ca mahatā duḥkhaskandhenābhyāhatā na duḥkhamanasikāra-saṃjñām utpādayanti SP 78.5 , and, afflicted with that great mass of misery, they do not conceive the idea of putting their minds on misery [Page552-a] (it does not occur to them to consider the question of misery seriously); ( 3 ) developing out of prec. ( cf. āhārasaṃjñā, SP 206.1 above, which might perhaps be rendered interest in, inclination towards food ; and cf. AMg. saṇṇā = manovṛtti, mental inclination , Ratnach. ), interest in, purposeful thought about : in Mv ii.147.12 (the Bodhisattva replies to his fatherʼs attempt to interest him in women; read with mss. ) yasya tāta strīsaṃjñā bhaveyā so atra rajyeyā …, father, whoever has ‘ideas’ about women, let him take pleasure in them ; the king replies, tava kīdṛśī saṃjñā bhavati 13, what are your thoughts or ideas? , to which the prince replies, mamātra viparītasaṃjñā bhavati 14, I have the idea of the reverse , i.e. (as the sequel explains), that things are the opposite of what they seem; here saṃjñā belongs to 2 above; cf. viparīta-saṃjñin SP 320.12 , s.v. saṃjñin (3); ( 4 ) in BHS esp. false notion, erroneous impression in the mind : in LV 374.11—12 ( vss , unmetr. in Lefm. ; see his note and Foucauxʼs note on Calc. 485.7 ) read, iha hetudarśanād vai jitā mayā hetukās trayaḥ saṃjñāḥ, nityānitye saṃjñā sukhaduḥkha 'nātmani cātmani ca, … three false notions , ( viz. ) the notions about the permanent and impermanent, pleasure and pain, non-self and self ; saṃjñā-graheṇa ( by clinging to false notions ) bālā dṛṣṭi-viparyāsa niśritā LV 235.17 ( vs ); samjñākṛtamātram ( a mere product of a false notion ) idaṃ kaṇṭhako vahatīti vādiśārdūlaṃ Mv i.157.10 (the gods held the horseʼs hoofs); saṃjñāsūtraṃ ( the cord of … ) uddharī saṃskṛtātaḥ LV 196.2 ( vs ); vitarkamālā saṃjñāsūtreṣu granthitā LV 372.3 ( vs ), the garland of doubt, strung on the cords of … ; sattvānāṃ … saṃjñā-vikalpa-caritānāṃ SP 318.13 , of creatures whose actions are characterized by false notions and vain imaginings ; mṛgīye … taṃ prasrāvaṃ pānīya-saṃjñāya ( instr. , under the mistaken impression that is was water ) pītaṃ Mv iii.143.17 , so 153.12 , °saṃjñāye 144.7 ; 154.9 ; bhagavaṃ ( mss. °vāṃ) mṛgasaṃjñena mayā etaṃ iṣu kṣiptaṃ Mv ii.213.16 , under the mistaken impression of (your being) a deer ( cf. 5 below) I shot this arrow ; krīḍāratiṃ ca janayec chubha-saṃjña-tāṃ ca LV 190.5 ( vs ), … and a state of having a false notion of (its being) fine (also cf. 5); keṣa-cid … vartati saṃjñā Samādh 19.24 , some have the false notion … , and so, keṣa-ci saṃjñā 25; ( 5 ) in comp. with a prec. noun or adj. (as in some cases under 4), the notion or idea or impression, opinion , that (something or someone) is (what the prior member of the cpd. means); esp. as object of utpādayati ( cf. SP 78.5 , under 2 above) or a synonym, forms, conceives such an idea or opinion ; the object of the idea is generally loc. , sometimes gen. with antike , q.v. , rarely acc. , sometimes not expressed (understood from context): (tato imā asmākaṃ striyaḥ sarvakālaṃ) paribhavetsuḥ, tṛṇasaṃjñā pi na ( mss. recorded as ta) utpādayetsuḥ (so read) Mv iii.393.14 , then these our wives would always scorn us, would not even think we were worth a straw ( lit. form a grass-blade-notion , sc. of us); śrotavyaṃ (read °vya, m.c. ) buddhavacanaṃ dullabha-saṃjñām upajanetvā Mv i.248.2 ( vs ), one must listen to the word of a Buddha, realizing that it is hard to find ; (te … durlabhaprādurbhāvāms) tathāgatān viditvāścaryasaṃjñām utpādayiṣyanti śokasaṃjñām utpā° SP 320.1 , … will conceive the notion of surprise and sorrow , virtually = will be surprised and grieved ; hīnasaṃjñā, a low (= unfavorable) opinion , (na tvayā …) °jñotpādayitavyā SP 425.9 , and with loc. of object, mā hīnasaṃjñām utpādayiṣyasi tathāgate ca bodhisattveṣu ca tasmiṃś ca buddhakṣetre 426.2 ; the opposite is viśiṣṭa-s°, LV 244.1—2 , below; others with loc. , śmaśāna-saṃjñāṃ ( mss. °jño) janayate iṣṭikāsu Mv ii.384.22 ( vs ), forms the idea about women that they are (repulsive as) cemeteries ; tāsu mātṛsaṃjñā upasthāpayitavyā bhaginīsaṃjñā duhitṛsaṃjñā Divy 115.5 , you must learn to think of them as if mothers, sisters, daughters ; kiṇīkṛta-( q.v. , so read)-saṃjñā bhaveyur na ca tathāgate durlabha-saṃjñām [Page552-b] utpādayeyuḥ SP 319.8 , … and would not conceive the difficulty of finding a T. ; the object is in gen. with antike ( q.v. ), naiṣa mamāntike viśiṣṭasaṃjño ( Bhvr. ) bhaven LV 244.1—2 , he would not have a high opinion of me ; (sarvatathāgatānāṃ) cāntike pitṛsaṃjñām utpādayati sarvabodhisattvānāṃ cāntike śāstṛsaṃjñām utpā° SP 286.1 ; also SP 107.4—5 (see antike ); object is acc. , svabhavanāni śmaśāna-saṃjñām utpādayām āsuḥ LV 278.7 , (gods etc. ) began to think of their own dwellings as cemeteries ( i.e. repulsive; = svāni vimānāni śmaśānānīva menire 280.20 , vs ); ( 6 ) ( cf. Skt. mg. sign, symbol ), alphabetic sign, letter : (yā) vā imā loke saṃjñā ( mss. mostly sajñā, perh. representing a pronunciation like MIndic saññā, as in Pali ?), brāhmī ( etc. , list of alphabets) Mv i.135.5 ; ( 7 ) a high number: Mvy 8034 = Tib. brdaḥ śes ; cf. mahā-saṃjñā, sarva-s°, visaṃjñāvatī .