The Sanskrit term Nārāyaṇaparipṛcchā can be transliterated into English as Narayanapariprccha or Narayanaparipriccha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Narayanapariprichchha.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (mahayana)

Nārāyaṇaparipṛcchā (नारायणपरिपृच्छा) is the name of an ancient text dealing with Dhāraṇī (rites for the protection of the state).—The setting of this scripture is Mount Svarṇaśṛṅga, the mansion of Vaiśravaṇa, where Nārāyaṇa requests help from the Buddha upon defeat by the Asuras, much like the Dhvajāgrakeyūradhāraṇī. The lord tells him that earlier, during the reign of King Ratnaśrī of Magadha, there lived Sarveśvara Tathāgata, from whom the Bhagavān learned the Mahāmāyāvijayavāhinī spell. For hundreds of thousands of years that king ruled righteously by the power of this dhāraṇī. In his next existence he was born as Māndhātā, a Bodhisattva and Cakravartin king, who practiced charity for sixty-four thousand kalpas and became a Buddha. [...]

Note: The Nārāyaṇaparipṛcchā/Mahāmāyāvijayavāhinīdhāraṇī was edited, along with the Tibetan translation by Bstan pa’i nyin byed, by Banerjee (1941) on the basis of a palm-leaf manuscript dated to 1361CE. No Chinese translation seems to be available.

context information

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 sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Nārāyaṇaparipṛcchā (नारायणपरिपृच्छा).—name of a work: Śikṣāsamuccaya 21.1; 147.1; 189.7.

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Paripriccha, Narayana.

Full-text: Rajaputra, Ratnashri, Sarveshvara, Svarnashringa, Mandhata, Mahamayavijayavahinidharani.

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