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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    p. 24, col. 1.
    aniñjya: variants āniñja, an°, āniñjya, ānijya,

    āneñj(y)a, an°, qq.v. The nasalless ānijya occurs without

    v.l. only once and may be an accidental corruption

    (anusvāra omitted); but see § 2.73. The omission of y

    after j is called ‘une orthographe prâcritisante’ by Senart,

    Mv i.399; at any rate it occurs frequently in the mss.

    In Pali the same word is written ānejja, ānañja, āneñja,

    and with short initial a- (stigmatized as wrong reading in

    CPD); forms with i in the penult are very rare in Pali,

    but CPD records aniñja-ppatta once; this surely cannot

    be separated from the common āneñja- (ānejja-, ānañja-)-

    ppatta. BHS has no ānañj- or ānejj-, which are not in-

    frequent in Pali. The wild variety of spellings in Pali

    itself shows that it early became an obscure word in the

    tradition. BHS occurrences of the spelling aniñjya include

    SP 161.10; Mvy 554, Śikṣ 237.1 (and 223.3, 4 in the ms.);

    perhaps Mv i.133.13 (Senart āniñjya, em., mss. mostly

    anīca [not low?], one aniṃca, perhaps intending aniñj[y]a);

    either an- or ān- (uncertain because of saṃdhi) Mv i.228.11,

    15; 229.6; ii.132.15 (here v.l. °nijya-). For examples of

    the other spellings see s.vv. There seems to be no difference

    in mg. between the various spellings; any of them may

    be an adj., immobile, immovable, or a nt. n., immovability.

    As adj., āniṃjehi vihārehi Mv i.34.11; ii.419.11, in im-

    movable conditions; ep. of citta Mv i.133.13 (see above

    on form); oftener °niñjyaprāpta, of citta, LV 344.6; Mv

    i.228.11, 15; 229.6; ii.132.15; aniñja-prāpta, of citta, SP

    5.10; aniñjya-bhūta, of citta, SP 161.10; ānijyāṃ śāntim

    Av ii.199.5; aniñjyo (ŚsP aniñjo) nāma samādhiḥ Mvy

    554; ŚsP 1418.22; virajasko (a)neñjyaś ca Mmk 476.14;

    clearly noun, āniñjyam Mvy 6387 = Tib. mi gyo ba,

    not moving; doubtless noun also in cpds. with -prāpta

    (Pali -ppatta) and -bhūta, above; apparently primarily

    adj. as third of a triad, the first two members of which

    are puṇya and apuṇya, or kuśala and akuśala; all three

    are applied to deeds (karman), or the performance or

    accumulation thereof (abhisaṃskāra, q.v.), or the under-

    lying conditions (saṃskāra; cf. Śāl 81.5, abhisaṃskārār-

    thena saṃskārāḥ), or finally the states of existence (dharmāḥ)

    to which such various acts lead as fruit. The first two,

    meritorious and demeritorious, relate to good and bad

    deeds as leading to rebirth in the kāmāvacara and (only

    good deeds) in the rūpāvacara states, or to these resulting

    states; the word aniñj(y)a, aneñj(y)a, or ā°, refers to

    deeds leading to rebirth in the arūpāvacara states, or

    to those states themselves (the dhyāna states), cf. Bbh

    90.16 āniñjya-caturtha-dhyāna-vihāraḥ; on the subject

    in Pali see Warren, B. in Tr. 179 f. (from Vism.), and in

    general La Vallée-Poussin, note on MadhK 334.8; a good

    Pali passage is DN iii.217.25 tayo saṃkhārā, puññābhisaṃ-

    khāro, apuññā°, ānañjā° (see Comm. iii.998.29). In BHS,

    Śāl 82.3--4 (cited Śikṣ 222.11--223.1) evam avidyāyāṃ

    satyāṃ trividhāḥ saṃskārā abhinivartante, puṇyopagā

    apuṇyo° āneñjyo° (Śikṣ āniñjyo°); Dbh 48.7 puṇyā-

    puṇyāneñjyān abhisaṃskārān; karmāṇi kuśalākuśalāneñ-

    jāni MadhK 334.7-8 (cf. 543.1 with note); (dharmāḥ)

    kuśalā vā 'kuśalā vā aniñjyā vā Śikṣ 237.1.