generally earnest wish, synonym of paṇidhāna, patthanā;
BHS shows no such usage; even when associated with
praṇidhi or °dhāna it is clearly different in mg.; cf. abhinir-
harati, under which will be found another case or two
of this noun); (1) production, accomplishment, effectuation,
undertaking, realization (particularly of something in one-
self); Lévi, Sūtrāl. iv.12, production, réalisation (Chin.
accomplishing). Rarely used of production of physical
things, as in Sukh 27.15 ff. of garments, flowers, etc.,
also music. That it is not, in BHS, equivalent to praṇi-
dhāna is illustrated by Gv 5.20 pūrva-bodhisattva-
praṇidhānābhinirhāraṃ ca saṃdarśayet, and shall exhibit
the accomplishment (performance) of former B. vows;
followed in 22 by pūrva-bodhisattva-caryā-maṇḍalā-
bhinirhāra-paripūriṃ ca saṃdarśayet, and other similar
cpds.; Dbh 14.10 evaṃrūpāṇi mahāpraṇidhānāni mahāvya-
vasāyān mahābhinirhārān abhinirharati, he undertakes
such great vows, resolutions, undertakings; accomplishment
or production of samādhi, Bbh 141.23 (teṣām, sc. samā-
dhīnām, abhi°); 175.11 (samādhy-abhi°); of a course of
conduct, caryā, Dbh 17.15; Mmk 23.5; SP 68.5; of mental
states such as compassion, Dbh 13.17; of preaching,
(dharma-)deśanā, SP 186.8 (here dharmadeśanābhi°
virtually = a kind of upāyakauśalya); 317.13 (preceded
in comp. by upāyakauśalya); upāyakauśalya-parigrahā-
bhi° Laṅk 15.11, realization of the possession of skillful
devices; upāyakauśalya-jñānābhi° SP 82.10 production of
(effectuation, setting in motion of) knowledge of skillful
devices; kṛtasaṃmodanakathāsatkārāsanābhinirhāraś ca
Jm 147.24--25, and after making the accomplishment of
return greetings etc.; gāthābhi° production (= recitation)
of verses SP 329.9; Samādh 19.37 (see Régamey's transl.
and note); nānābhinirhāra-, various undertakings (ac-
complishments, initiations of activities for religious pur-
poses) SP 41.2, 12; 54.2, 4; 71.7; citta-nagara-duryodhana-
durāsadatābhi- (text erroneously °bhir)-nirhāra-prayukta
Śikṣ 123.4, zealous to produce (effect) the state of impreg-
nability and inviolability in the city of the mind; in Dbh
55.11 ff., repeatedly, -abhinirhāraṃ cābhinirharati, pro-
duces the effect (accomplishes the accomplishment) of
(various religiously desirable ends); Mvy 593 ākārābhi°,
as n. of a samādhi, effectuation of forms; 758 buddha-
kāya-varṇa-pariniṣpatty-abhinirhāra, adj., as n. of a
dhāraṇī; in Dbh 45.17 read maharddhi-vikurvaṇābhinir-
hāra-nānopacāra- (text °ṇānopa°) -kriyāprayogair, pro-
duction of great magic (and?) miracles; (2) funeral obsequies
(cf. abhinirharati, 2; not in this sense in Pali): Av i.272.1
śarīrābhi°.