increase

• Profit, benefit. Advantage, growth. One of the hexagrams in the Yijing. [resp. cmuller; source(s): Nakamura]
• [Buddhism] To bring benefit to others (Skt. anugraha); for the sake of, one behalf of. [resp. cmuller]
• Be beneficial, useful, valuable. [resp. cmuller]
• To augment. [resp. cmuller]
• (Skt. hita, artha; vṛddhi, samāropa; anugraha-kārin, anugrahârtha, anugrāhaka, anuśaṃsā, amogha, artha-saṃhita, upakara, upakārin, upacaya, kāra, kuśala, puṣṭy-artham, prakṣipta, prakṣepa, bhūyasyāmātrayā, saṃgraha, sātmya) [resp. cmuller; source(s): Hirakawa]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1375c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 4192

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0866

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)105a

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