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samārakassa

samāraka

masc dat sg of samāraka (adj); nt dat sg of samāraka (adj); masc gen sg of samāraka (adj); nt gen sg of samāraka (adj)

1. with Māra; with Māras

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, with
  Prefix indicating association and togetherness; the spatial sense of bringing-into-one becomes association or companionship.
• Māra — root · Māra; death
  The death-god and demon of delusion in Buddhist mythology; the antagonist of the Buddha, personifying craving (taṇhā) and ignorance.
• -ka — ending · agentive/adjectival suffix
  Nominalizing suffix that forms adjectives and agent nouns; -āka is its ablaut variant. Here it creates an adjective meaning 'pertaining to' or 'associated with'.

Analysis. sam + āraka; āraka is a suffix forming agent nouns (one who does, one associated with); here 'together with Māra' or 'connected with Māra' — the adjective means 'pertaining to or allied with Māra'. The genitive/dative forms govern the postposition or depend on a head noun.

Etymology. The root is Māra (the death-god and personification of craving and delusion in Buddhist cosmology); sam- adds the sense of association or companionship. The suffix -āka (related to -aka, a common nominalizing and adjectival ending in Pali, cognate with Sanskrit -aka) creates an adjective meaning 'of or with'. The whole compound is common in Pali texts describing the Buddha's encounters with Māra and his armies.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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