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Nirmanarati, ṇaپ, Nirmana-rati: 6 definitions

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In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Nirmanarati in Mahayana glossary
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

ṇaپ (निर्माणरति).—According to the Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XIV), the ṇaپ gods create the five sense objects themselves and enjoy them. This is why they are called ṇaپ “enjoying that which they have themselves created�.

The ṇaپ gods represents one of the seven destination of rebirths in 峾ٳ, according to chapter XLIX, “[...] another, generous, magnanimous, moral and erudite (śܳٲ), loves to learn and earns his living by his own strength: he is reborn among the ṇaپ gods�.

: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

ṇaپ (निर्माणरति) is the name of a Heaven, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as Vimalaprabhānantaraśmirāja said to king Puṇyālaṃkāra: “[...] In this way, son of good family, when the rain of all kinds of jewels poured down from open space, the gods of the earth (bhauma), filled with admiration, said that this Bodhisattva is supposed to become the Gaganagañja. When such rain of all kinds of jewels poured down, just as the gods of the earth said, so the gods of the Cāturmahārājika heaven, the Trāyastriṃśa heaven, the Yāma heaven, the Tuṣita heaven, and the ṇaپ heaven, filled with admiration, also said that this Bodhisattva is supposed to become the Gaganagañja. [...]�.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many ūٰ of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā ūٰ.

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General definition (in Buddhism)

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Nirmanarati in Buddhism glossary
: WikiPedia: Buddhism

One of the higher Kamadhatu Devas.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Nirmanarati in Sanskrit glossary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

ṇaپ (निर्माणरति).�(= Pali nimmānarati), lit. enjoying magical creations (of their own), name of a class of kāmāvacara gods, see s.v. deva (also called nirmita, q.v., chiefly in verses); commonly in lists along with other classes of gods: Lalitavistara 46.21; 51.1; 150.3; 266.6; 396.15; 401.10; in Ѳ屹ٳ, even prose, n.-acc. pl. may be °ratino i.240.4 (v.l. °rati); ii.16.4; °ratī ii.348.17 (v.l. °tiś); °rati i.212.15; °rataya� i.40.15; 229.15; 333.6; gen. pl. °ratīnā� ii.163.12, etc.; Ѳ屹ܳٱ貹ٳپ 3082; ٳ󲹰ṃg 127; پ屹Բ 68.13; 367.10; ܱṇadzٳٲūٰ 86.10; Śṣāsܳⲹ 257.9; Բ-śٲ첹 i.5.1, etc. Their chief is Sunirmita (once Sunirmāṇarati).

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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