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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary

उपादानम्upādānam1 Taking, receiving, acquisition, obtaining; विश्रब्धं ब्राह्मणः शूद्राद् द्रव्योपादानमाचरेत् Ms.8.417; 12.7…
1. 1 Taking, receiving, acquisition, obtaining; विश्रब्धं ब्राह्मणः शूद्राद् द्रव्योपादानमाचरेत् Ms.8.417; 12.7; विद्याdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied K.75.
2. Taking away, appropriating to oneself.
3. Employment, using; becoming familiar with.
4. Mention, enumeration; किमास्योपादाने प्रयोजनम् Mbh.I.1.9.
5. Saying, speaking.
6. Including, containing.
7. Withdrawing the organs of sense and perception from the external world and its objects.
8. A cause; motive, natural or immediate cause; पाटवोपादानः भ्रमः Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)3. Vartious reading; प्रकृष्टपुण्य- परिपाकोपादानो महिमा स्यात् Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)6.
9. The material out of which anything is made, the material cause; निमित्तमेव ब्रह्म स्यादुपादानं च वेक्षणात् adhikaraṇamālā.
10. A mode of expression in which a word used elliptically, besides retaining its own primary sense, conveys another (in addition to that which is actually expressed); स्वसिद्धये पराक्षेपः ... उपादानम् K. Parasmaipada2.
11. (With Buddhists) conception; grasping at or clinging to existence (caused by तृष्णा and causing भव). (With Rāmānujas) preparation (of perfumes, flowers etc. as one of the five elements of worship).
12. Effort of body or speech.
13. Name of the four contentments mentioned in सांख्यकारिका as प्रकृत्युपादानकालभागाख्याः Sāṅ. K.5.
Derived forms and compounds
- -कारणम् a material cause; प्रकृतिश्चोपादान- कारणं च ब्रह्माभ्युपगन्तव्यम् Ś. B.
- -लक्षणा Equivalent to अजहत्स्वार्था quod vide, which see; see K. Parasmaipada2; S. D.14.
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