See also abhyāsaḥ.
1 Practice, exercise.
2 Learning by rote.
3 Practising archery.
4 (In arithmetic,) Multiplication.
5 (In grammar,) The reduplicate syllable of a verb. mfn. (-saḥ-sā-saṃ) Near, proximate.
E. abhi before, asa to go, &c. ghañ aff.
e. g. Manu: te'bhyāsātkarmaṇāṃ teṣāṃ pāpānāmalpabuddhayaḥ . saṃ-
prāpnuvanti duḥkhāni &c.; or Kātyāy. Śr. S.: abhiplavābhyāse-
nābhipūraṇam; or Kumārila on a Mānava-Kalpa-S.: triri-
tyabhyāso'nuvādaḥ; or the Mit. on Yājnav. (2. 81.): etacca
…anabhyāse ca draṣṭavyam . lobhādikāraṇaviśeṣaparijñāne
'bhyāse ca manunoktam; or the same on Yājn. (3. 255.): ajñā-
nato'bhyāse tu vasiṣṭhenoktam .…jñānato'bhyāse tu śaṅkho-
ktam .…atyantābhyāse harītoktam; or Raghun. Prāya-
śchittat. (a quotation): goghnavadvihitaḥ kalpaścāndrāyaṇamathāpi
vā . abhyāse tu tayorbhūyastataḥ śuddhimavāpnuyāt; or Jaimini-
Sūtras: āgneyastūktahetutvādabhyāsena pratīyeta; or yāvajjīviko
'bhyāsaḥ karmadharmaḥ; or abhyāso vā vikārātsyāt . paśustvevaṃ
pradhānaṃ syādabhyāsasya tannimittatvātsamāsaśabdaḥ syāt; or artha-
vāṃstu naikatvādabhyāsaḥ syāt…; or vediprokṣaṇe mantrābhyāsaḥ
karmaṇaḥ punaḥprayogāt &c. &c.; or Ved. Sūtr.: ānandamayo
'bhyāsāt; (Śaṅkara: paramātmānandamayo bhavitumarhati . kutaḥ .
abhyāsāt . parasminneva hyātmanyānandaśabdo bahukṛtvo'bhyasyate);
or Nyāya-S.: nānuvādapunaruktayorviśeṣaḥ śabdābhyāsopapatteḥ ..
śīghrataragamanopadeśavadabhyāsādviśeṣaḥ; or abhyāsāt (sound
is permanent on account of its frequent occurrence) .. anyatve
'pyabhyāsasyopacārāt; or Mādh. Jaiminīyany.: …sūktaṃ tri-
rāvartanīyam . tatra prathamāvṛttau prathamāyā ṛcastrirabhyāsaḥ; or
abhyāsādanyakarmatvaṃ darśeṣṭau dviḥ prayujyatām &c. &.; or Mādh.
Sarvadarś. (Pāṇinid.): yathā svādhyāyaḥ sakṛtpaṭhyamāno nāva-
dhāryate . abhyāsena tu sphuṭāvasāyaḥ &c.; or Mādhāva observes
in his comm. on the Aitareyabr. at the end of several chap-
ters, that the last word is to be repeated to indicate the
close of the chapter, e. g. the word bhavati at the end of
the first Adhyāya is to be repeated: bhavatiśabdasyābhyāso
'dhyāyasamāptyarthaḥ; or at the end of the fifth Adhy. or the
first Pañchikā: abhyāso'dhyāyasamāptyarthaḥ, similarly at the
end of the seventh, ninth, tenth &c. &c. Adhyāyas. See
also s. v. ākūpāra. 2 Repeated practice, repeated use of
a thing, habit; e. g. Pāṇini: mithyopapadātkṛño'bhyāse; or
Yājnav.: tatrātmā hi svayaṃ kiṃcitkarma kiṃcitsvabhāvataḥ .
karoti kiṃcidabhyāsāddharmādharmobhayātmakam; or Mit. on Yājn.
(3. 253.): abhyāse tu surāyā iti vāsiṣṭhe &c.; or Medhāt. on
Manu: (vyasanasya ca mṛtyośca vyasanaṃ kaṣṭamucyate) vyasanaśabdenā-
tyantābhyāsaḥ . etadvargaviṣaya ucyate (i. e. in the sense of ‘bad
habit, vice’); or Nyāya-S. (soul is eternal): pretyāhārābhyā-
sakṛtātstanyābhilāṣāt; or (knowledge of the absolute truth
increases) samādhiviśeṣābhyāsāt ..…araṇyaguhāpulinā-
diṣu yogābhyāsopadeśāt; or Suśruta: āśayyābhyāsayogena
karotyāśayasaṃbhavam; or Rājatar.: darśanābhyāsasaṃvṛddhacacūrāgaḥ
kṣamāpatiḥ (comp. also the inst. s. v. anvaya p. 151b, 1. 45);
or Sāhityad. (v. 49): śikṣābhyāsādimātreṇa rāghavādeḥ svarū-
patām . darśayannartako naiva rasasyāsvādako bhavet (where śi-
kṣābhyāsa seems rather to be a Tatpur., than a Dwandwa).
3 Repeated mental practise, study; e. g. Viśvan. on a Nyāya-
S. (3. 113. where it is mentioned as one of the twenty-
seven means to awaken memory): abhyāsaḥ saṃskārabāhulyam
(abhyāsa means the multiplicity of mental impressions) .
etasya yadyapi nodbodhakatvaṃ tathāpi tādṛśe śīghramudvodhakasamava-
dhānaṃ syādityāśayena tadupanyāsaḥ . abhyāso dṛḍhatarasaṃskāraḥ
(i. e. it means a mental impression which has become very
strong); or Sāṅkhya-Prav.: tattvābhyāsānneti netīti tyāgā-
dvivekasiddhiḥ ‘discriminative knowledge becomes accom-
plished through the study of the twenty-five principles and
the avoiding of what is negatived in scriptural texts with
the words: “it is not…it is not…”’; or Sāṅkhyakār.:
evaṃ tattvābhyāsānnāsti na me nāhamityapariśeṣam . aviparyayā-
dviśuddhaṃ kevalamutpadyate jñānam; or Manu: vedābhyāso hi viprasya
tapaḥ paramihocyate; or Yājnav.: yathā vidhānena paṭhansāmagā-
yamavicyutam . sāvadhānastadabhyāsātparaṃ brahmādhigacchati; or
Bhartṛh. Vākyapadīya: abhyāsapratibhāhetuḥ sarvaḥ śabdaḥ paraiḥ
smṛtaḥ .…anāgamaśca so'bhyāsaḥ samayaḥ kaiścidiṣyate.
4 Reading; e. g. Ṛgv. Prātiś.: abhyāsārthe drutāṃ vṛttiṃ prayo-
gārthe tu madhyamām . śiṣyāṇāmupadeśārthe kuryādvṛttiṃ vilambitām
‘let the quick way (i. e. quick time) be used at the reading
(of sacred texts), the middle in common discourse, the
slow in instructing pupils’. 5 Constant veneration; e. g.
Mahābh. Anuśāsanap.: abhyāse nityaṃ devānāṃ saptarṣīṇāṃ dhruvasya
ca . mokṣaṇaṃ sarvakṛcchrāṇāṃ mocayatyaśubhātsadā. 6 (In Philo-
sophy and such passages of non-philosophical works as
refer to the philosophical doctrines, this word has been used
in the following manner: in the Mīmānsā and Nyāya it is
used only in the three first meanings as illustrated by some
instances from their Sūtras; in the Vedānta Sūtras equally
so, but in the later Vedānta it assumes also the sense)
a. inculcation of a truth conveyed in sacred writings by means
of repeating the same word or the same passage; it is one of
the six characteristics of the śravaṇa or ascertaining the pur-
port of the Vedānta (see the enumeration of the other terms
s. v. apūrvatā): Ved. Sāra: prakaraṇapratipādyasya vastunastanmadhye
paunaḥpunyena pratipādanamabhyāsaḥ; by such repetitions are meant,
according to the Ved. Sāra, e. g. that of the words tattvamasi
which occur nine times in the sixth Prapāth. of the Chhānd.
Upan.; or, acc. to Rāmakṛṣṇat. that of sa eṣa neti neti
of the Bṛhadār., or of the passage sa yaścāyam in the
Taitt. Up., or of the passages yenākṣaraṃ puruṣaṃ veda satyam,
tadetadakṣaraṃ brahma, tamevaikaṃ vijānītha ātmānam (?) in the
Muṇḍaka Up., &c. (In the Sāṅkhya Prav. it has also the
sense as illustrated before by instances from these Sūtras,
but in the Sūtra 6. 29. and the Yoga it means) b. the effort
of the mind to remain in its unmodified condition of purity
(sattwa) or that condition which is free from the affections of
passion (rajas) and sin (tamas): Yoga S. 1. 13.: tatra sthitau
yatno'bhyāsaḥ (Patanjali's comm.: cittasyāvṛttikasya praśānta-
vāhitā sthitiḥ--comp. 3. 10.--tadarthaprayatnī vīryamutsāhaḥ .
tatsaṃpipādayiṣayā tatsādhanānuṣṭhānamabhyāsaḥ; Vāchaspatim. on
these words: cittasyāvṛttikasya rājasatāmasavṛttirahitasya
praśāntavāhitā vimalatā sāttvikavṛttivāhitaikāgratā sthitiḥ
&c.; Bhojad. Rājamārt.: vṛttirahitasya cittasya svarūpaniṣṭhā-
pariṇāmaḥ sthitiḥ); this effort becomes consolidated or firm if
it is persevered in during a long time, unremittingly and
through the accomplishments (of penance, chastity, wisdom and
faith): Yoga S. 1. 14.: sa tu dīrghakālanairantaryasatkārāsevito
dṛḍhabhūmiḥ (Patanj.'s comm.: dīrghakālāsevitaḥ . nirantarāse-
vitaḥ . tapasā brahmacaryeṇa vidyayā śraddhayā ca saṃpāditaḥ satkā-
ravāndṛḍhabhūmirbhavati . vyutthānasaṃskāreṇa drāgityevānabhibhūtavi-
ṣaya ityarthaḥ; according to the Rājamārtaṇḍa ‘through the
accomplishment of great respect’: bahukālaṃ nairantaryeṇādarā-
tiśayena ca sevyamāno dṛḍhabhūmiḥ sthiro bhavati dārḍhyāya pra-
bhavatītyarthaḥ); it is together with vairāgya (q. v.) the means
to hinder the modifications of the mind which are called
pramāṇa, viparyaya, vikalpa, nidrā and smṛti qq. vv.; Yoga S.
1. 12.: abhyāsavairāgyābhyāṃ tannirodhaḥ; (comp. also the Sūtra
1. 18.: virāmapratyayābhyāsapūrvasaṃskāraśeṣo'nyaḥ); the word is
used in the stated sense in the S. Prav. Sūtra: dhyānadhāra-
ṇābhyāsavairāgyādibhistannirodhaḥ (Vijnānabh.: samādhidvārā
dhyānaṃ yogasya kāraṇaṃ dhyānasya ca kāraṇaṃ dhāraṇā tasyāśca kā-
raṇamabhyāsaścittasthairyasādhanānuṣṭhānamabhyāsasyāpi kāraṇaṃ viṣaya-
vairāgyam &c.); abhyāsa has this technical Yoga-sense also,
for instance, in these verses: Bhagavadgītā (6. 35.): asaṃśayaṃ
mahābāho mano durnirgrahaṃ calam . abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairā-
gyeṇa ca gṛhyate (Śaṅkara: abhyāso nāma cittabhūmau kasyāṃci-
tsamānapratyayā vṛttiḥ…gṛhyate nirudhyata ityarthaḥ; Sadānanda:
abhyāsena viśuddhena vairāgyeṇa nigṛhyate . abhyāso nāma kasyāṃ-
ciccittabhūmau nirantaram . samānapratyayā vṛttiścittasyādhiviyo-
ginaḥ); or (12. 9.) atha cittaṃ samādhātuṃ na śaknoṣi mayi sthiram .
abhyāsayogena tato māmicchāptuṃ dhanañjaya .. (Śaṅk.: cittasyai-
kasminnālambane sarvataḥ samāhṛtya punaḥ punaḥ sthāpanamabhyāsaḥ .
tatpūrvako yogaḥ samādhānalakṣaṇastenābhyāsayogena &c.; Sadān.:
cetasaḥ sthāpanaṃ bhūyo bhūyo'bhyāsaḥ sa ucyate . tatpūrvakasamā-
dhiryastena māṃ prāptumīśvaram) abhyāse'pyasamartho'si matkarmapara-
mo bhava .…śreyo hi jñānamabhyāsājjñānāddhyānaṃ viśiṣyate .
dhyānātkarmaphalatyāgastyāgācchāntiranantaram; or Mahābh. Śān-
tip.: tathaitadantaraṃ vidyātsattvakṣetrajñayorbudhaḥ . abhyāsātsa tathā
yukto na gacchetprakṛtiṃ punaḥ (Arjunam.: tathā nairmalyena yukto
yadi tadā na prakṛtisaṅgaṃ gacchet which explanation ‘nairmalyena’
will become intelligible when compared with the definition
of the term, as applying to the condition of sattva); comp.
also Mādhava's Sarvadarś.: tatra madhumatī nāmābhyāsavairāgyā-
divaśādapāstarajastamoleśasukhaprakāśamayasattvabhāvanayānavadyavai-
śāradyavidyotanarūpa ṛtambharaprajñākhyā samādhisiddhiḥ. 7 (In
Grammar.) a. Reduplication (in general); e. g. Nirukta (on
the word babdhām): ādinābhyāsenopahitenopadhāmādatte babha-
stirattakarmā. b. (In Pāṇini.) The first syllable of the re-
duplicated base; Pāṇ.: pūrvo'bhyāsaḥ. See the explanation
s. v. abhyasta 2. (In this sense, and not in the general sense
reduplication, the term is also understood in the Vārttikas
and the other commentaries on Pāṇ.; e. g. VI. 1. 12. v. 9;
16. v. 3; 17. v. 1; 30. v. 1; 135. v. 5; VII. 4. 58. v. 1; 67. v. 1;
82. v. 3; VIII. 2. 3. v. 7; 6. v. 11;--or I. 1. 65. paribh. 1;
VII. 4. 83. paribh. 1. 2.)--8 (In Poetry.) The repetition
of a word or verse in a stanza, or of the stanza itself;
e. g. Lāṭyāy. Śr. Sūtr.: abhyāso gūrdasya (the stanza Sāmav.
2. 457-459.) . abhyāsādiruttareṣāṃ trayāṇām (Agnisvāmin: dvi-
tīyapāde yanmadhyamaṃ caturakṣaramabhyasyate sa pratihāraḥ &c.).--
In the late artificial poetry there are four kinds of such
repetitions which bear the name abhyāsa, viz. pādābhyāsa,
ardhābhyāsa, sarvābhyāsa and ślokābhyāsa qq. vv.; the general
name, however, for repetitions of syllables, words or verses
is yamaka q. v. (where all the names of the subdivisions will
be found). 9 (In Arithmetic.) a. Multiplication; (more
usual terms, however, are abhihati, āhati, guṇana). b. Pro-
duct of multiplication; e. g. (for both meanings) Vījagaṇ.:
vajrābhyāsau jyeṣṭhalaghvostadaikyaṃ hrasvaṃ laghvorāhatiśca prakṛtyā . kṣuṇṇā
jyeṣṭhābhyāsayugjyeṣṭhamūlaṃ tatrābhyāsaḥ kṣepayoḥ kṣepakaḥ syāt; ‘the
greatest and least roots are to be reciprocally multiplied
crosswise; and the sum of the products to be taken for a
least root. The product of the two (original) ‘least’ roots
being multiplied by the given coefficient and the product
of the ‘greatest’ roots being added thereto, the sum is the
corresponding greatest root; and the product of the addi-
tives will be the (new) additive’; Colebrooke's Alg. p. 171.
10 (In military terminology.) Archery; (as such the word is
named in several Koshas: Hem., Trik., Bhūripr.; while
Hemach. e. g. sometimes adds the word for bow or arrow
which is supplied; thus, nānārth. 3. 730.: ākarṣaḥ pāśake
dhanvābhyāsāṅge dyūta indriye; or 4. 163.: upāsanamāsane . śuśrū-
ṣāyāṃ śarābhyāse &c.; elsewhere it has, with this sense and
without the addition of śara or dhanu, not come under my ob-
servation, except, where its elliptical sense may be easily
supplied, in the) Dhanurveda: …kumbhakena sthiraṃ kṛtvā huṃkā-
reṇa visarjayet . ityabhyāsakriyā kāryā dhanvinā siddhimicchatā.
[II. Tatpur. 1. m. f. n. (-saḥ-sā-sam) The same as
abhyāśa which is the more correct form.
2. m. (-saḥ) 1 Result, consequence; e. g. Chhānd. Up.:
sa ya etamevaṃ vidvānādityaṃ brahmetyupāste'bhyāso ha yadenaṃ sādha-
vo ghoṣā ā ca gaccheyurupa ca nimreḍerannimreḍeran (ed. Röer
p. 232); or ātmānamantata upasṛtya stuvīta kāmaṃ dhyāyannapramatto
'bhyāso ha yadasmai sa kāmaḥ samṛdhyeta &c. (ed. Röer p. 49).--
See abhyāśa 3. 2 Neighbourhood, vicinity; e. g. Mahābh.
Ādip.: rorūyamāṇasyābhyāse bhṛśaṃ viprasya pāṇḍavaḥ &c.; or
Vanap.: tatrābhyāsastho'pi kaścinnāpaśyat; or Rāmāy.: abhyetya
tvaramāṇaśca rathābhyāsaṃ manīṣiṇaḥ &c.; or Daśakum.: adarśaṃ
ca mārgābhyāsavartinaḥ kasyāpi kṣapaṇavihārasya &c.--In both
meanings the writing abhyāśa which occurs, too, in some
Mss. of the passages quoted, is more correct. See the
remark under the latter word, also as regards the masc.
gender of the second meaning.] E. as with abhi, kṛt
aff. ghañ.
abhyāśa), m. 1. Repetition, Man. 12,
74. Repetition of words, Vedāntas. in
Chr. 216, 8; 9. 2. Repeated practice,
Rājat. 5, 164; 439. Use, Yājñ, 3, 68.
3. Reading, Man. 4, 148. Study, Pañc.
220, 4.
m. (-saḥ)
1. Practice, exercise.
2. Learning by rote.
3. Practicing
archery.
4. (In arithmetic,) Multiplication.
5. (In grammar,) The
reduplicate syllable of a verb.
mfn. (-saḥ-sā-saṃ) Near, proximate.
E.
abhi before asa to go, &c. ghañ aff.
1) Wiederholung KĀTY. ŚR. 24, 7, 20. P. 1, 3, 71. VOP. 23, 54. abhyāsātkarmaṇāṃ teṣāṃ pāpānām M. 12, 74. abhyāsādekaikasya YĀJÑ. 3, 323. dhyānanirmathanābhyāsāt ŚVETĀŚV. UP. 1, 14. abhiplavābhyā° KĀTY. ŚR. 24, 3, 33.
— 2) das Obliegen, Uebung, anhaltende Beschäftigung mit Etwas, wiederholte Anwendung, Gebrauch, Gewohnheit MED. s. 14. HĀR. 150. śreyo hi jñānamabhyāsāt BHAG. 12, 12. mano durnigrahaṃ calam . abhyāsena tu - vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate 6, 35. 44. 18, 36. abhyāsayogena 12, 9. tatrātmā hi svayaṃ kiṃcitkarma kiṃcitsvabhāvataḥ . karoti kiṃcidabhyāsāt (aus Gewohnheit) YĀJÑ. 3, 68. mātṛpitṛkṛtābhyāso guṇitāmeti bālakaḥ H. Pr. 36. asyābhyāsādghṛtasyeha jīvedvarṣaśatatrayam SUŚR. 2, 419, 19. śastraviśeṣāṇāṃ punaḥpunarabhyāsaḥ MADHUS. in Ind. St. 1, 21, 26. yogābhyāsa YĀJÑ. 3, 51. BHARTṚ. 1, 96. amaṅgalābhyāsarati der eine Freude am Unheilstiften hat KUMĀRAS. 5, 65. yadvāñchati divā martyo vīkṣate vā karoti vā . tatsvapne 'pi tadabhyāsāttathā brūte karoti ca .. PAÑCAT. I, 149. śarābhyāsa = upāsana TRIK. 3, 3, 231. wiederholtes Lesen, Studium: abhyāsārthe drutāṃ vṛttiṃ prayogārthe tu madhyamām (kuryāt) ṚV. PRĀT. 13, 9. anabhyāse viṣaṃ vidyā HIT. Pr. 21. anabhyāsena vedānām M. 5, 4. vedābhyā° 2, 166. 4, 148. 10, 80. 11, 46. 245. 12, 31. 83. 92. YĀJÑ. 3, 311. vidyā° PAÑCAT. 220, 4. brahmā° M. 4, 149. tadabhyā° YĀJÑ. 3, 112. tattvā° SĀṂKHYAK. 64. āyurvedakṛtābhyāsa adj. CĀṆ. 103. andhatāmisravāsābhyāsodyatā iva KATHĀS. 4, 63.
— 3) Waffenübung TRIK. 3, 2, 20. 3, 3, 442. H. 788.
— 4) Reduplication (in der Gramm.) NIR. 5, 12. P. 6, 1, 4. 7. 17. u. s. w.
— 5) Refrain NIR. 10, 42.
— 6) Multiplication COLEBR. Alg. 5. 171.
— Vgl. abhyāśa und abhyasta .
2) rucyabhyāsau Lust und Fleiss Spr. (II) 5790. jñānābhyāsa Studium 4839. anabhyāsa pl. Nichtstudium, Faulheit 7442.
— 1) Hinzufügung ŚULBAS. 2,4.
— 2) *Waffenübung.
— 3) Wiederholung 282,28. 283,12.
— 4) Reduplication (gramm.).
— 5) Refrain.
— 6) Multiplication.
— 7) das Obliegen , Uebung , anhaltende Beschäftigung mit Etwas , wiederholte Anwendung , Gebrauch , Gewohnheit ; insbes. wiederholtes Recitiren , Studium.
nitas. N. 9. 10. DR. 8. 13. 2) exercitatio, usus, experien-
tia. BH. 12. 12. 18. 36. 3) educatio, disciplina, institutio.
HIT. 5. 14. 7. 4. Scribitur etiam abhyāśa. (Cf. abhyasta,
abhyasana, abhyasya apud Wils. ed. 2.)