apūrvatā

ceded by any thing. ² The being unprecedented, wonderful,

extraordinary. ³ The not having existed before, the being

new (and therefore requiring an authoritative injunction or

vidhi); e. g. in the Vedānta Sūtra: stutimātramupādānāditi

cennāpūrvatvāt (Śaṅkara: na stutimātramāsāṃ śrutīnāṃ prayojanaṃ

yuktam . apūrvatvāt . vidhyarthatāyāṃ hyapūrvārtho vihito bhavati

stutyarthatāyāṃ tvānarthakyameva syāt); or in the Jaimini Sūtra:

vacanāni tvapūrvatvāttasmādyathopadeśaṃ syuḥ (Śabara: evamapūrvamarthaṃ

vidadhato'rthavattā bhaviṣyati &c.); or Jaimini: apūrvatvādvi-

dhānaṃ syāt . (Śabara: na tatra kaścitpurvaprāpto yāgo vidyate

&c.); or in an Adhik. of Mādhava: nivītaṃ tu manuṣyāṇāṃ

vidhirvaiṣo'rthavādakaḥ . apūrvatvātprakaraṇānnuḥ kratorvā vidhī-

yate ..…nivītasya pūrvaṃ mānāntareṇāprāptatvādvidheyatvamabhyu-

peyam &c. ⁴ (In the Vedānta philosophy.) Acquiring an under-

standing of the Real besides which there is nothing else (advi-

tīyavastu) from no other authority than the vaidik writings;

it is one of the six characteristics of the śravaṇa or ascer-

taining by means of study the purport of the Vedānta;

(comp. besides upakramopasaṃhāra, abhyāsa, phala, arthavāda and

upapatti; and see also manana, nididhyāsana and samādhi).

⁵ (In the Mīmānsā philosophy.) ^a. The being or having the

unseen power apūrva q. v. I. 1. 2. 1. a.; e. g. in the Jaimini

Sūtra: śrapaṇānāṃ tvapūrvatvātpradānārthe vidhānaṃ syāt (opposed

as pūrvapakṣa, to the siddhānta: saṃskāraṃ prati bhāvācca

tasmādapyapradānaṃ syāt; comp. for the term saṃskāra s. v. apūrva

I. 1. 2. 1. a.). ^b. The being a sacrificial act called apūrva q. v.

I. 1. 2. 1. b.; e. g. in the Jaimini Sūtra: apūrvatāṃ tu darśayedgraha-

ṇasyārthavattvāt; or in the Adhikaraṇa of Mādhava: darvi-

home somadharmā apūrvatvamutāgrimaḥ . avyakteryajyabhāvācca svāho-

ktyāderapūrvatā (comp. apūrvakarmatva in the instance s. v. apūrva-

karman. [^c. For the meaning ‘the being an injunction apūrva’

q. v. I. 1. 2. 1. c. I have no safe instance to adduce.] ⁶ The

not having had before (scil. a husband); used so in the

Vārttika and the Kārikā to Pāṇ. IV. 2. 13: striyā apūrvatve,

or apūrvatvaṃ yadā tasyāḥ. E. apūrva, taddh. aff. tal or tva.

a-pūrva + tva, n. Condition of having

no antecedent, i. e. acquiring an under-

standing of the only real being from no

other authority than the Vedic texts,

Vedāntas. in Chr. 216, 10 cf. 3.

— 1) das keinen Vorderen — , kein Vorderes Haben Comm. zu. TĀṆḌYA-BR. 17,10,4.

— 2) Neuheit 282,28.