उपादानम्upādānam1 Taking, receiving, acquisition, obtaining; विश्रब्धं ब्राह्मणः शूद्राद् द्रव्योपादानमाचरेत् Ms.8.417; 12.7…
- 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.
- Taking away, appropriating to oneself.
- Employment, using; becoming familiar with.
- Mention, enumeration; किमास्योपादाने प्रयोजनम् Mbh.I.1.9.
- Saying, speaking.
- Including, containing.
- Withdrawing the organs of sense and perception from the external world and its objects.
- 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.
- The material out of which anything is made, the material cause; निमित्तमेव ब्रह्म स्यादुपादानं च वेक्षणात् adhikaraṇamālā.
- 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.
- (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).
- Effort of body or speech.
- Name of the four contentments mentioned in सांख्यकारिका as प्रकृत्युपादानकालभागाख्याः Sāṅ. K.5.
Derived forms and compounds
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-कारणम् a material cause; प्रकृतिश्चोपादान- कारणं च ब्रह्माभ्युपगन्तव्यम् Ś. B.
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-लक्षणा Equivalent to अजहत्स्वार्था quod vide, which see; see K. Parasmaipada2; S. D.14.
