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 Burnouf renders it Seigneur des êtres patients; Eitel, Lord of the inhabitable parts of all universes; H. Kern [in S. B., XXI, p. 5] maintains that it is f synonymous with Sikhin, which is a common term for Agni.

Sa´kka, p., Sa´kra, skt., Lord; a cognomen of Indra. 69.

Sa´kya, p., Sa´kya, skt., the name of a royal race in the northern frontiers of Magadha.—7, 14, 26.

Sakyamu´ni, p., Sakyamu´ni, skt., the Sakya sage; a cognomen of Buddha.—27, -8, 33, 34, 36, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 83, no, in, 142, 144, 178, 196, 198, 210, 254.

Sā´la, p., Sā´la, skt. a tree, vatica robusta; sāla-grove, 241, 245; sāla-trees, 141

Samā´dhi, p. and skt., trance, abstraction, self-control. Rhys Davids says (B. p. 177): "Buddhism has not been able to escape from the natural results of the wonder with which abnormal nervous states have always been regarded during the infancy of science. . . . But it muse be added, to its credit, that the most ancient Buddhism despises dreams and visions; and that the doctrine of Samādhi is of small practical importance compared with the doctrine of the noble eightfold Path." Eitel says (Handbook, p. 140): "The term Samādhi is sometimes used ethically, when it designates moral self-deliverance from passion and vice."

Sa´mana, p., Srā´mana, skt., an ascetic; one who lives under the vow, 26, 36, 41, 59, 70, 87, 93, 119, 152, 165, 188, 189, 194, 19$, 207, 223; the Samana Gotama, 151, the vision of a samana, 20.

Sambho´ga-Kā´ya, skt., the body of Bliss.—254.

Sammappadhā´na, p., Samyakpradhā´na, skt. right effort, exertion, struggle. There are four great efforts to overcome* sin, which are: (1) Mastery-over the passions, so as to prevent bad qualities from rising; (2) suppression of sinful thoughts to put away bad qualities which have arisen; (3) meditation on the seven kinds of wisdom (Bojjhafiga) in order to produce goodness not previously existing, and (4) fixed attention or the exertion of preventing the mind from wandering, so as to increase the goodness which exists. [See the Mahāpadhāna-Sutta in the Dīgba-Nikāya'. Compare B. B. St. p. 89, and Rh. Davids's Buddhism, pp. 172–173.]

Samsā´ra, p. and skt., the ocean of birth and death, transiency, worldliness, the restlessness of a worldly life, the agitation of selfishness, the vanity fair of life.—2, 5, 172, 225.

Sa´ngha, p. and skt., the brotherhood of Buddha's disciples, the Buddhist church. An assembly of at least four has the power to bear confession, to grant absolution, to admit persons to the priesthood, etc. The sangha forms the third constituent of the Tiratana or three jewels in 283