abhimāna

1 Pride, haughtiness.

2 Knowledge.

3 Affection.

4 Injury, hurting, killing.

5 Requesting.

E. abhi, and mana to know, with ghañ affix, or mī to injure, and lyuṭ.

objects with the notion that they refer to one's own self:

the mental process which is the essential characteristic of

ahaṅkāra (of the conception of ‘I’ or of the notion of per-

sonality) q. v.; e. g. Sāṅkhya Sūtra: abhimāno'haṃkāraḥ

(Vijnānāch.: ahaṃ karotītyahaṃkāraḥ kumbhakāravat . antaḥkara-

ṇadravyaṃ sa ca dharmadharmyabhedādabhimāna ityuktaḥ); or Vedānta Sāra:

abhimānātmikāntaḥkaraṇavṛttirahaṃkāraḥ; and therefore in cor-

rect writing not identical with the philosophical term ahaṃ-

kāra itself, although some authors use both words some-

times apparently as synonymes: Vijnānāch.: ahaṃkāraścābhi-

mānavṛttikamantaḥkaraṇadravyaṃ na tvabhimānamātraṃ dravyasyaiva loke

dravyopādānatvadarśanāt. Yet as the notion of personality

in the orthodox philosophical systems is not our notion

of self-consciousness, but the notion based on that con-

dition of the mind which identifies the bodily personality

or individual existence with the Absolute, and as this

mental condition is held to lead to an erroneous concep-

tion of the absolute Truth, the terms ahaṃkāra and a-

bhimāna have generally a negative bearing, the latter imply-

ing: ‘conceiving the wrong or erroneous idea that the ob-

jects of the world refer absolutely to one's own bodily or

individual self’; e. g. Viśvan. (on the Nyāya S. doṣanimi-

ttānāṃ tatvajñānādahaṃkāranivṛttiḥ): ahaṃkāro'hamityabhimānaḥ

sa ca śarīrādiviṣayako mithyājñānamucyate (comp. the Sid-

dhāntamuktāv.: ahaṃkāro'hamiti pratyayaḥ . tasyāśrayo viṣaya

ātmani śarīrādiriti); or Sāṅkhyatattvak.: yatkhalvālo-

citaṃ mataṃ ca tatrāhamadhikṛtaḥ . śaktaḥ khalvahamatra . madarthā evā-

mī viṣayāḥ . matto nānyo'trādhikṛtaḥ kaścidastyato'hamasmī-

ti yo'bhimānaḥ so'sādhāraṇavyāpāratvādahaṃkāraḥ. ² Con-

ception in general, but (like the preceding meaning) usually

with an implied negative bearing: erroneous conception or

belief, imagination, fancy; e. g. Nyāya Sūtras: sphaṭikānya-

tvābhimānavattadanyatvābhimānaḥ ‘as crystal is fancied to be-

come different (from the proximity with objects it comes

in contact with) so the mental activity is fancied to vary’;

or svapnaviṣayābhimānavadayaṃ pramāṇaprameyābhimānaḥ ‘like the

conceit of things in a dream, is the conceit of means of

proof and objects of proof’; or mithyopalabdhivināśastattva-

jñānātsvapnaviṣayābhimānapraṇāśavatpratibodhe ‘false conception

ceases through the knowledge of the Truth as the imagin-

ation of objects in a dream vanishes on awaking’; or Bho-

jadeva (on the Yoga S. vivekakhyāti°°): pratipakṣabhāvanāba-

lādavidyāpravilaye nivṛttakartṛtvajñātṛtvābhimānāyā rajastamo-

malānabhibhūtāyā buddherantarmukhāyā yā cicchāyāsaṃkrāntiḥ sā

vivekakhyātirityucyate ‘…of the intellect in which the con-

ceit of being agent or knower has ceased…’; or Sā-

hityad.: utsāhādisamudbodhaḥ sādhāraṇyābhimānataḥ . nṛṇāmapi

samudrādilaṅghanādau na duṣyati ‘…from imagining that the

hero of a poem possesses universal powers’. Comp. also

the inst. s. v. abhimanyamāna. (This use of the word recon-

ciles its rendering jñāna by the Amarak., Hem., Bhūripr. &c.,

and ajñāna by the Medinī.) ³ Arrogance, self-conceit, pride

(of family, wealth, superior qualities &c.; Ramānātha on the

Amarak.: ādinā kulapaśuguṇādigrahaḥ); comp. ahaṅkāra;

e. g. Śṛṅgāratil.: prāyo mūrkhaḥ paribhavavidhau nābhimānaṃ pidhatte;

or Bhaṭṭik.: parāmṛśantaḥ prathitābhimānāḥ procuḥ prahastapramukhā

daśāsyam. ⁴ Affection, (Amarak. &c. = praṇayaḥ; Mukuṭa:

= prītiḥ). ⁵ Affectionate solicitation; (Ramānātha: = premṇā

prārthanam). ⁶ Solicitation in general, wish, desire; (Svāmin,

Nīlak.: = prārthanā); e. g. Vijnānāch.: mayānenendriyeṇedaṃ rū-

pādikaṃ bhoktavyamidameva sukhasādhanamityādyabhimānādevādisarge-

ṣvindriyatadviṣayotpattyāhaṃkāra indriyādihetuḥ. ⁷ Injury, hurt-

ing, killing, desire of doing injury &c. (Amarak.: = hiṃsā,

Bharata: = hanana; Sāyaṇa on the Śatap.: = hiṃsecchā). E.

man (cl. 4) with abhi, kṛt aff. ghañ; or in the meanings

1-3, perhaps mā with abhi, kṛt aff. lyuṭ; for the affinity

of both radicals see s. vv.

+ a, m. 1. Referring existing objects

to one's own self, egotism, Vedāntas.

in Chr. 207, 2. 2. Self-conceit, pride,

Bhartṛ. 3, 4. 3. Love, Daśak. in Chr.

182, 23. — Comp. Nis-, adj. exempt from

pride, Bhāg. P. 5, 15, 6. Sa-, adj.

proud, Rājat. 5, 233.

m. (-naḥ)

1. Pride, haughtiness.

2. Knowledge.

3. Affection.

4.
Injury, hurting, killing.

5. Requesting.

E. abhi, and mana to know,
with ghañ affix, or mī to injure, and lyuṭ aff.

insolence;

injure.

Amour, surtout amour offensant.

abhimānita n. viol, amour charnel.

°śālin- a. fier, arrogant.

1) hohe Meinung von sich, Hochmuth, Stolz AK. 1, 1, 7, 22. 3, 4, 18, 113. H. 317. an. 4, 154. MED. n. 162. PRAŚNOP. 2, 4. R. 4, 6, 21. 6, 66, 27. BHARTṚ. 3, 4. KATHĀS. 18, 55. ŚṚṄGĀR. 17. darpo 'bhimānaśca BHAG. 16, 4. abhimānaṃ ca mānaṃ ca tyaktvā R. 2, 58, 16. dehābhi° BĀLAB. 31. sābhimānam adv. VIŚV. 12, 13. PAÑCAT. 83, 17.

— 2) Selbstbewusstsein: abhimāno 'haṃkāraḥ SĀṂKHYAK. 24. COL. Misc. Ess. I, 242.

— 3) das für-Etwas-Halten, Auffassung: prāmāṇyābhimānāt Z. d. d. m. G. 7, 299, N. 4. sādhāraṇyābhimānataḥ (BALL.: from the conceit of community) SĀH. D. 26, 15. = jñāna AK. 3, 4, 113. H. an. 4, 155. MED. n. 162 ('jñāne).

— 4) Zuneigung (praṇaya) AK. 3, 4, 113. H. an. 4, 155. MED. n. 162.

— 5) feindliche Absicht, Nachstellung KĀTY. ŚR. 9, 5, 12. mit dem subj. comp.: rudrābhi° 23, 4, 18. = hiṃsecchā SĀY. zu ŚAT. BR. 3, 6, 2, 20. = hiṃsā AK. H. an. MED.

1) Spr. 4602. SĀH. D. 471. 493. sābhimāna stolz RĀJA-TAR. 5, 233.

— 2) füge hinzu das in-Beziehung-Bringen der Objecte zum Ich: abhimānātmikāntaḥkaraṇavṛttirahaṃkāraḥ VEDĀNTAS. (Allah.) No. 47. abhimānalakṣaṇo 'haṃkāraḥ Verz. d. Oxf. H. 225,b,5. viceṣṭitaṃ sābhimānam egoistisch Spr. 307.

— 4) DAŚAK. in BENF. Chr. 182, 23. viṣayakariṇīgāḍharūḍhābhimānakṣīvasvāntaḥkaraṇakarin Spr. 401.

— 6) das Voraussetzen bei sich, die falsche Meinung, dass man Etwas besitze: dehābhimāna BĀLAB. 31 = Spr. 4217.

6) Spr. (II) 6387.

— 1) feindliche Absicht , Nachstellung.

— 2) Selbstgefühl , Hochmuth , Stolz.

— 3) Selbstgefühl , so v.a. das in Beziehung Bringen der Objecte zum Ich.

— 4) Voraussetzung bei sich ; die falsche Meinung , dass man Etwas besitze.

— 5) Voraussetzung , insbes. eine falsche.

— 6) Zuneigung Spr. 1060.

— Wahn, Jātakam. 18, 15.

lentia, honoris, gloriae cupiditas. BH. 16. 4.