saMtAna
saṃtāna , m. or nt. , ( 1 ) = saṃtati 1, q.v. ; figures underlying this in Laṅk 18.2, 3 , continuity of fire with difference of individual flames, of vegetable growths unified by origin from one seed, agnijvālāyā eka-saṃtānapatitāyā dṛṣṭo 'rciṣaś ca prativibhāgaḥ, ekabījaprasūtānāṃ yat-saṃtānānām api …; saṃvidyante bhikṣavo yuṣmākaṃ saṃtāne kuśalamūlāni yāni mayā pūrvaṃ paripācitāni SP 211.12 , there are found in your personal-continuity-series roots of merit which were previously (in former existences) ripened by me (or merely mentality , as in the following ?); ( 2 ) = saṃtati (2), and cf. sāṃtānika , with or (usually) without citta-, mental disposition, mentality ( Pali citta-saṃ°, seemingly not in this sense): sāsya bhajahe citta-°naṃ Mv iii.355.14 ( vs ), see § 31.20 ; same without citta, of which it is used as a virtual synonym, note esp. kṣubhita-cittair luḍita-saṃtānais Gv 338.3—4 ; also, (tathāgatajñānaṃ …) parasattva-°neṣu vā pratiṣṭhāpayitum Gv 5.12 ; harṣa-utpadyana-saṃtānāni (so, cpd. ) 48.5 , their mental conditions productive of joy ; mahākaruṇā-snehābhiṣyandita-°no ( Bhvr. ) 189.9 , cf. mahākaruṇā-parisphuṭena °nena Śikṣ 28.7 ; dharmābhiṣyanditaprasanna-°nā ( Bhvr. ) Gv 333.3 ; similarly 469.21 ; svaśarīrānadhyavasita-°naḥ Śikṣ 23.12 ( Bhvr. ; chain of thought , Bendall and Rouse for saṃtāna); sarvajña-saṃtānanivāsinī ( mentality ) hi kāruṇyadhenur Divy 125.6 ; anekasattva-saṃtāna-kuśalamūlasamāropikāṃ dharmadeśanāṃ 130.14 ; mamāpi saṃtāne ye dharmāḥ praviśeyuḥ ( whatever religious principles may enter into my mentality, too ) te niṣkampaṃ tiṣṭhantu Divy 540.30 ; tasyāpi °ne 'kuśalamūlāni pratisaṃhṛtāni Av ii.87.10 ; kaṭhina-°nāś ca bhavanti Mv i.90.4—5 , and they become of harsh mental dispositions ; ( 3 ) nt. , = Skt. saṃtānikā, scum, top part of milk or ghee: kṣīra-°naṃ vā sarpi-°naṃ vā Mv i.339.9 ; ( 4 ) m. , n. of a ‘medicinal tree’: °no nāma mahābhaiṣajyavṛkṣas Gv 497.12 ; perh. to be identified with Skt. id. as name of a heavenly tree, BR s.v. 10.