adhyāsa

1 Inhabiting as chief, residing in, presiding over or ruling.

2 Sitting on or upon.

3 Transferring.

4 Attributing erroneously the nature of one thing to another, as of eternity to matter, &c.

E. adhi before, āsa sit, affix ghañ.

philosophy.) Transferring or attributing erroneously the

predicates, nature &c. of one object to another, as of a ser-

pent to a rope &c. See adhyāropa. ³ (In vaidik grammar.)

The appendage to a vaidik verse; according to some the

same as ekapadā q. v. E. as, to throw, in the caus., with

adhi, kṛt aff. ghañ.

Putting on; pādādhyāse, ‘for putting

the foot on a person,’ Yājñ. 2, 217.

n. (-saṃ)

1. Inhabiting as chief, residing in, presiding over or
ruling.

2. Sitting on or upon.

3. Transferring.

4. Attributing
erroneously the nature of one thing to another, as of eternity
to matter, &c.

E. adhi before, āsa to sit, affix ghañ.

1) das Aufsetzen, Aufstellen: pādādhyāse (wenn er den Fuss auf ihn setzt) śataṃ damaḥ YĀJÑ. 2, 217.

— 2) Anhang, Zusatz ṚV. PRĀT. 17, 25.

3) Uebertragung, insbes. eine unrichtige KAP.1,153. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 230,a,8. 10. PRAB. 71,2. ŚAṂK. zu BRAHMAS. S. 12. fgg.

— 4) adhyāse MBH. 13, 867 fehlerhaft für abhyāse (abhyāśe), wie die ed. Bomb. (abhyāśe) hat.

— 1) das Aufsetzen , Aufstellen.

— 2) falsche Uebertragung.

— 3) Anhang , Zusatz.

— 5. ° = adhiṣṭhāna, H 43, 61.