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Entry अभाव

अभावabhāvaa.Without love or affection. कच्चिन्ना- भिहतोऽभावैः शब्दादिभिरमङ्गलैः Bhāg.1.14.4.
[न. ब.]
1. Without love or affection. कच्चिन्ना- भिहतोऽभावैः शब्दादिभिरमङ्गलैः Bhāg.1.14.4.
2. Nonexistent.
Derived forms and compounds
- -वः
  
  Not being or existing, non-existence; गतो भावोऽभावम् Mk.1 has disappeared.
  
  Absence, want, failure; सर्वेषामप्यभावे तु ब्राह्मणा रिक्थभागिनः Ms.9.188; mostly in comp.; सर्वाभावे हरेन्नृपः 189 in the absence of all, failing all; तोयdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied, अन्नdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied, आहारdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied etc.
  
  Annihilation, death, destruction; (वचो...पथ्यमुक्तम्) राक्षसानामभावाय त्वं वा न प्रतिपद्यसे Rām.5.21.1. non-entity; नाभाव उपलब्धेः Ś B.; क्षणमात्रभवामभावकाले Śi.2.64; Ki.18.1.
  
  (In Philosophy) Privation, non-existence, nullity or negation, supposed to be the seventh category or पदार्थ in the system of Kaṇāda. (Strictly speaking अभाव is not a separate predicament, like द्रव्य, गुण, but is only a negative arrangement of those predicaments; all nameable things being divided into positive (भाव) and negative (अभाव), the first division including द्रव्य, गुण, कर्म, सामान्य, विशेष and समवाय; and the second only one अभाव; Compare अत्र सप्तमस्याभावकथनादेव षण्णां भावत्वं प्राप्तं तेन भावत्वेन पृथगुपन्यासो न कृतः Muktā.) अभाव is defined as भावभिन्नोऽभावः (प्रतियोगिज्ञानाधीनविषयत्वम्) that whose knowledge is dependent on the knowledge of its प्रतियोगी. It is of two principal kinds संसर्गाभाव and अन्योन्याभाव; the first comprising three varieties प्रागभाव, प्रध्वंसाभाव, and अत्यन्ताभाव.
- -संपत्तिः Feminine false attribution (Equivalent to अध्यास quod vide, which see)
In the Gita2·16 10·4

नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः ।

nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ, — That which really is, cannot go out of existence, just as that which is non-existent cannot come into being. The end of this opposition of ‘is’ and… 2·16
- अभावःabhāvaḥnominative singular of the masculine compound noun abhāva (absence, non-existence, destruction).
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