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अप्रणिहित (apraNihita)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अ-प्रणिहित
mfn.
 free from desire,
Sukh.
 i
अ-प्रणिहित (prob.)
n.
 purposelessness, ib.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
a-praṇihita, adj. and subst. (= apraṇidhi, q.v., and Pali appaṇihita, CPD aimless, not bent on anything
in Pali as in BHS parallel to suññatā, °ta, the latter being used as adj. in Pali!, and animitta (ān°)
as epithet of samādhi [suññato … animitto … appaṇihito samādhi SN 〔iv.360.17〕 = DN 〔iii.219.22〕] and of vimokkha, nibbāna, also as substitute for the latter), (state that is) free from desire, [Page047-b] longing, or purpose
often in cpds. it is hard to say whether it would be better to call it adj. or subst.
śūnyatānimittāpraṇihitam SP 〔101.1〕 (adj. or subst.?)
〔136.13〕 (subst.
with nirvāṇadvāraṃ as fourth member of cpd., but this is unique
there are four herbs in the preceding parable
in 〔137.1—2〕 the three alone are named as vimokṣa-mukhāni)
Śikṣ 〔6.15〕 -śūnyatānimittāpraṇihita-rutam = buddha-rutam (see LV 〔296.8〕, s.v. apraṇidhi)
LV 〔374.4〕, read apraṇihita-samādhim with v.l. for text apratihata-: 〔422.21〕 apraṇihita-cakram (Lefm. with all mss. aprani°), parallel to preceding śūnyatā-, animitta-c°
〔428.9—10〕 °ta-vihārī, parallel to śūnyatā-, ānimitta-v°
KP 〔94.5〕 and 〔125.3〕, both parallel to śūnyatā, ānimitta
AsP 〔256.13〕 (subst.) et passim.