abhojana

E. a neg. bhojana food.

disease, caused by want of appetite &c.); e. g. Shādvinśabr.:

atha yadāsya prajayā paśuṣu śarīre vāriṣṭāni prādurbhavanti vyā-

dhayo vā anekavidhā atisvapnamasvapnamatibhojanamabhojanamālasyaṃ

vraṇamajīrṇanidrāṇyevamādīni tānyetāni sarvāṇi yamadevatyānya-

dbhutāni prāyaścittāni bhavanti . (Sāyaṇa: abhījanamarucyā-

dinā). ² Abstinence, fasting, as a religious act; e. g.

Kātyāy. Śrautas.: abhojanaṃ tasyocchvāsāt; or as a penance

(see prāyaścitta) for the expiation of sin; e. g. Manu: vedo-

ditānāṃ nityānāṃ karmaṇāṃ samatikrame . snātakavratalope ca prāya-

ścittamabhojanam; or Bharadvāja: nirācārasya viprasya ni-

ṣiddhācaraṇasya ca . annaṃ bhuktvā dvijaḥ kuryāddinamekamabhojanam;

(for the various modes of fasting, as practised in under-

going the penances prājāpatya, sāntapana, mahāsāntapana, ati-

sāntapana, kṛcchraṃ, atikṛcchra, taptakṛcchra, pādakṛcchra, parāka,

cāndrāyaṇa &c. see s. vv. and s. v. prāyaścitta). In the verse

of Manu 8. 49. which describes the five different means by

which a creditor may obtain payment of a debt (dharmeṇa

vyavahāreṇa cchalenācaritena ca . prayuktaṃ sādhayedarthaṃ pañcamena balena

ca) Kullūka interprets the term ācarita (Sir W. Jones and

and Colebr. Dig. I. 339. ‘distress’) according to Vrihaspati:

dāraputrapaśūnhṛtvā kṛtvā dvāropaveśanam . yatrārthī dāpyate'rthaṃ

svaṃ tadācaritamucyate; Medhātithi however qualifies the ‘sitting

at the debtor's door’ by adding abhojana (viz. abhojanagṛhī-

tadvāropaveśanam) and Vijnāneśvara when quoting this verse

of Manu in the Mit. on Yājnav. (2. 40.) renders ācaritena

(misprinted in the 4^to ed. acaritena) simply with abhojanena.

(For this practice of fasting at the door of debtors which

is familiar under the name of ‘sitting in Dherna’; comp.

As. Res. IV. p. 332.) E. a neg. and bhojana.

n. (-naṃ) Abstinence, fasting.

E. a neg. bhojana food.