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Entry उपपत्ति

उपपत्तिupapattif.Happening, occurring, becoming visible, appearance, production, birth; अथोपपत्तिं छलनापरोऽ- पराम् Śi.1.69…
1. Happening, occurring, becoming visible, appearance, production, birth; अथोपपत्तिं छलनापरोऽ- पराम् Śi.1.69 (जन्म); इष्टानिष्टोपपत्तिषु Bg.13.9.
2. Cause, reason, ground; प्रियेषु यैः पार्थ विनोपपत्तेः Ki.3.52.
3. Reasoning, argument; उपपत्तिमदूर्जितं वचः Ki.2.1; देवि सोपपत्तिकमभिहितम् । Nāg.5 argumentative; giving a reason for the establishment of a matter; S. D.482.
4. Fitness, propriety.
5. Termination, end.
6. Association, connection.
7. Acceptance, adoption; Mv.5.
8. Ascertainment, demonstration, demonstrated conclusion; उपपत्तिरुदाहृता बलात् Ki.2.28.
9. (In Arithmetic or Geom.) Proof, demonstration.
10. A means, an expedient.
11. Assistance, support, help; ततः प्रजह्रे सममेव तत्र तैरपेक्षितान्योन्यबलोपपत्तिभिः Ki.14.44.
12. Doing, effecting, gaining; accomplishment; स्वार्थोपपत्तिं दुर्बलाशः R.5.12; तात्पर्यानुपपत्तितः Bhāṣā Parasmaipada; H.3.111; see अनुपपत्ति.
13. Attainment, getting; असंशयं प्राक् तनयोपपत्तेः R.14.78; Ki.3.1.
14. Religious abstraction (समाधि).
15. Accident, chance; उपपत्त्योपलब्धेषु लोकेषु च समो भव Mb.12.288.11.
16. Suitability, expediency; उपपत्ति- मदूर्जिताश्रयं नृपमूचे वचनं वृकोदरः Ki.2.1; Bhag.4.28.68.
Derived forms and compounds
- -समः (in logic) a kind of contradiction in which both the contradictory ascertions are supposed to be demonstrable (Exempli gratia, for example sound is eternal because it is produced; it is eternal because it is not tangible). Nyāyadarśana.
- -परित्यक्त Adjective Unproved, unreasonable, destitute of argument or proof; Raj. T.
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