आस्फानक (AsphAnaka)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishāsphānaka, nt. (= Pali appānaka, °ṇaka
etym. and lit. mg. obscure
doubtless = āspharaṇaka (-samādhi), q.v.
CPD conjectures relation to (ā-)sphāyate, swells, grows
LV seems to think of forms of spharati, but this may be etymological fancy, despite the Mvy āspharaṇaka-), n. of a kind of dhyāna (either alone, or in cpd. °ka-dhyāna): LV 〔250.14〕 °ka-dhyānaṃ samāpadyate … °nakam iti
explained lines 19—20 ākāśam aspharaṇam akaraṇaṃ avikaraṇaṃ tac ca sarvaṃ spharatīti hy ākāśasamaṃ tad dhyānaṃ (cf. Tib. on āspharaṇaka-) tenocyate āsphānakam iti
°kaṃ dhyānaṃ dhyāyeyaṃ (or other form of this verb) Mv 〔ii.208.2〕
LV 〔251.14 f.〕, 21
〔259.1, 8, 10〕 (ākāśadhātuspharaṇaṃ dhyāyaty āsphānakaṃ dhyānaṃ, he meditates the ā° meditation which agitates the ether-element), and ff.
Mv 〔ii.124.9, 15〕 °nakaṃ (in 9 v.l. °nakadhyānaṃ
in 15 mss. °nakaṃ dhyānaṃ, or āsphārakaṃ) dhyāyeyaṃ.
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