अप्रमाण (apramANa)
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Spoken Sanskrit
Englishअप्रमाण - apramANa - - rule which is no standard of action
अप्रमाण - apramANa - - statement of no importance or authority
अप्रमाण - apramANa - - that which cannot be taken as authority in actions
Apte
Englishअप्रमाण [apramāṇa],
Unlimited, immeasurable, boundless.
Without authority, proof or weight, unauthorized.
Not regarded as an authority, not trustworthy
आजन्मनः शाठ्यमशिक्षितो यस्तस्याप्रमाणं वचनं जनस्य 5.25.
णम् That which cannot be taken as authority in actions
i. e. a rule, direction which cannot be accepted as obligatory.
Irrelevancy. -आभः, -शुभः (pl. ) 'of unlimited lustre', of a class of deities (with Buddhists). -विद् not conversant with evidence, or incapable of weighing evidence.
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Apte 1890
Englishअप्रमाण a. 1 Unlimited, immeasurable, boundless.
2 Without authority, proof or weight, unauthorized.
3 Not regarded as an authority, not trustworthy
आजन्मनः शाव्यमशिक्षितो यस्तस्याप्रमाणं वचनं जनस्य Ś. 5. 25.
णं 1 That which cannot be taken as authority in actions
i. e. a rule, direction &c. which cannot be accepted as obligatory.
2 Irrelevancy.
Comp.
आभः, शुभः (pl.) ‘of unlimited lustre’, N. of a class of deities (with Buddhists).
विद् a. not conversant with evidence, or incapable of weighing evidence.
Monier Williams Cologne
EnglishMonier Williams 1872
Englishअप्रमाण अ-प्रमाण, अस्, आ, अम्, immeasur-
able, unlimited
without weight or proof, without au-
thority
(अम्), n. a rule which is no standard of action.
—अ-प्रमाण-विद्, त्, त्, त्, incapable of weighing
evidence.
—अप्रमाण-शुभ, आस्, m. pl. of immea-
surable virtue
N. of a class of Buddhist divinities.
—अप्रमाणाभ (°ण-आभ), आस्, m. pl. of unlimited
splendor
N. of a class of divinities in Buddhism.
Goldstucker
Englishअप्रमाण I. Tatpur. n. (-णम्) No-authority, a rule, injunction,
reasoning, saying, precedent &c. which is not binding, no
standard to be guided by, irrelevancy
(comp. the similar
terms अप्रमा, अप्रामाण्य, अमा, अमात्व, अमान, अमानता,
also प्रमाणाभास)
e. g. in Mādhava's Jaiminīya-nyāyam.:
अर्थाबोधादप्रमाणं पिकालम्भनचोदना । मैवं म्लेच्छप्रसिद्ध्यापि
तद्बोधादविरुद्धया
or अगुणत्वादनामत्वादमन्त्रत्वादनन्वये ।
अष्टत्वाद्यप्रमाणं चेन्नार्थवादतयान्वयात्
or in the Nyāya S.:
रोधोपघातसादृश्येभ्यो व्यभिचारादनुमानमप्रमाणम्, or in the
instance s. v. अनैकान्तिकत्व
or Śaṅkara in the comm. on
the Bṛhadār.: यदि तावदुपनिषदो ब्रह्मैकत्वप्रतिपत्तिप्रमां
कुर्वन्ति कथमप्रमाणं भवेयुः
or in a Vārtt. to Pāṇini: तद्धि-
तार्थनिर्देशे लिङ्गवचनमप्रमाणं तस्याविवक्षितत्वात् ‘gender
and number are irrelevant (i. e. not the subject of the rule)
in the chapter on the derivations with taddhitas &c.’
(Kaiyyaṭa: अप्रमाणमिति । तद्वशात्कार्यस्य विधिनिषेधौ न
भवत इत्यर्थः)
or in the Śakunt.: तस्याप्रमाणं वचनं जनस्य
‘the word of such a person is no-authority, (where अप्रमाणम्
is not to be considered as a Bahuvr.). E. अ neg. and प्रमाण.
II. Bahuvr. m. f. n. (-णः-णा-णम्) Immeasurable, im-
mense, infinite
(the word occurs scarcely in this sense in
the classical Sanskṛt
comp. the following articles). E. अ
priv. and प्रमाण.
Apte Hindi
Hindiअप्रमाण
"वि*, न* ब*" - -
"असीमित, अपरिमित "
अप्रमाण
"वि*, न* ब*" - -
अन्धिकृत
अप्रमाण
"वि*, न* ब*" - -
"अप्रामाणिक, अविश्वस्त"
L R Vaidya
EnglishEdgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishapramāṇa, nt. (in mg. 1 = Pali appamaññā, f.
see CPD s.v.),
(1) infinitude, as n. for brahmavihāra (q.v.), of which there are four, maitrī (maitrā), karuṇā, muditā, upekṣā: listed as apramāṇāni Sūtrāl. 〔xvii.17〕, cf. xx—xxi.43
AbhidhK. LaV-P. 〔viii.196〕
Mvy 〔1503—7〕
Bbh 〔241.15—16〕
LV 〔297.12〕 (vs) maitrī-upekṣa-karuṇā-muditāpramāṇāḥ (read °ṇā? hardly Bhvr.)
mentioned without list, Gv 〔471.18〕 catur-apramāṇa-vihāra-
Śikṣ 〔105.16〕
LV 〔45.16〕 catur-apramāṇa-prabha-teja-dharaḥ
〔341.1〕 caturapramāṇa (wrongly printed catura pramāṇa)
(2) a high number: Mvy 〔7934〕 (cited from Gv)
〔8041〕
Gv 〔134.7〕.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
Germanवाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskritअप्रमाण न प्रमाणं विरोधे । प्रमाज्ञानभिन्नभ्रमादि-जनके वाक्यादौ । तानि च “वेदाः प्रमाणं स्मृतयः प्रमाणंधर्मार्थयुक्तं वचनं प्रमाणम् । यस्य प्रमाणं न भवेत् प्रमाणंकस्तस्य कुर्य्याद्वचनं प्रमाणमिति” स्मृत्युक्तवेदादिप्रमाणभिन्नानि चार्वाकादिवचनानि “नद्यां शिलाः तरन्तोत्यादीनिप्रमाणान्तरविरुद्धार्थकानि वचनानि” च । एवं पित्तादिदुष्टानि इन्द्रियाणि आभासकलितानि लिङ्गानि च ।“प्रमाणत्वाप्रमाणत्वे” इत्यादि मीमांसा ।
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