saMketa
saṃketa , m. (in Skt. agreement , esp. rendezvous , and agreed sign or gesture ; in AMg. saṃkeya app. gesture in general), ( 1 ) perh. gesture , in next, q.v. ; but it may mean conventional term ; ( 2 ) conventional designation , with implication of unreality (see saṃketika ): Mvy 2776 , follows vyavahāra , q.v. ; = Tib. brdaḥ , which may mean gesture; token, symbol; explanation; word (the last prob. here, with the above implication); (of the Tathāgatakāya) sāmānyaḥ °tena, °taḥ paramārthena Samādh 22.11 , universal by convention, a (mere) convention(al term) in very truth ; saṃketamātram evedam Laṅk 202.15 = 339.11 ; nāmasaṃjñā-saṃketābhiniveśena … bālāś cittam anusaranti 225.6 ; dharma-°ta evāyaṃ ( this world ) … °tāc ca pṛthagbhūto na jāto na nirudhyate 289.8—9 ( vs ); (āhvānāya) °to Bbh 389.20 , see vyavahāra ; perh. here Mv i.78.10 ( vs ), which is textually dubious, (pravartate tatha pariśeṣabhūmiṣu, mss. °śeṣāsu bhū°,) sāmānyasaṃketānāṃ nirūpaṇaṃ ( mss. °ketāni rūpāṇāṃ); the reading of the mss. could be translated, so there are in use in regard to the other stages (of a Bodhisattva) the common conventional expressions of their forms (the meter is uncertain).