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samayena

samaya

masc instr sg of samaya (noun)

1. time; occasion; lit. going together
2. right time; suitable occasion; lit. going together
3. condition; state; lit. going together
4. gathering; massing; congregation; assembly; lit. going together
5. religion; doctrine; lit. going together
6. learning; study; art; science

Built from

• sam — prefix · together, with
  Spatial sense of bringing things into one. Works like Latin con- and appears in samādhi (placed-together, collectedness) and saṁsāra (wandering-together).
• aya — stem · going, coming
  Derived from √i (go). The stem-form aya appears in compounds; samaya literally means 'going together', hence a gathering, occasion, or meeting-point in time.

Analysis. sam + aya: 'coming together', hence 'gathering' and by extension 'occasion' or 'time when things meet'; in doctrinal contexts, 'the teaching that brings [followers] together', doctrine or school.

Etymology. sam (together) + √i (go): 'a going together'. Cognate with English same and Latin similis; the root √i appears in Latin īre 'go'. The prefix sam- (like Latin con-) marks things brought into one unified whole.

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

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