The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1791 page)

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Pariv
ra
(division of Vinayapi
aka):
Parivr
jaka
(Skt.,
pari
+
vvraj
, ‘to wander about’). A wandering religious mendicant. Although this term occurs in the early Brahmanic tradition of the
Upani
ads
, it is also applicable to
Buddhist
and
Jain
monks, as well as to Hindu sa
ny
sins. The P
li equivalent is
paribb
jaka
.
Pariyatti
.
The entire teaching of the
Buddha
: it is thus one of the Buddhist meanings of
dharma
.

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