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नैवसंज्ञानासंज्ञायतन (naivasaMjJAnAsaMjJAyatana)

 
Monier Williams 1872
English
नैवसंज्ञानासंज्ञायतन नैवसञ्ज्ञानासञ्ज्ञा-
यतन, अम्, n. a place (आयतन) where there is
no (न-एव) thinking (सञ्ज्ञान) and no (न) not-
thinking (अ-सञ्ज्ञा).
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana (= Pali nevasaññānāsaññāy°),
(1) nt., stage of neither consciousness nor unconsciousness: as 4th of the stages of arūpāvacara gods, Mvy 〔3113〕
Dbh 〔34.15〕
as 4th of the ārūpya samāpatti, Mvy 〔1495〕
Karmav 〔47.22〕
naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyātanasamāpatter mārgaḥ LV 〔244.13〕 and 〔245.3〕
as condition of the 7th vimokṣa, Mvy 〔1517〕
as 8th of the sattvāvāsa, Mvy 〔2296〕
in Bbh 〔49.17—18〕 ākāśavijñānākiṃcanyanaivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatanam, the four ‘stages’ are telescoped in one cpd. (āyatana being understood with all four)
Rudraka (Mv Udraka) Rāmaputra taught as the goal association with this stage, °tana-sahavratāyai dharmaṃ deśayati LV 〔243.17〕 and 〔403.10〕 = Mv 〔ii.119.9〕 and 〔iii.322.12〕
(2) m. pl., °yatanā devāḥ Mmk 〔45.7〕 = next.