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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 170, col. 2.
    aparāntajñāna Tatpur. n. (-nam) (In the Yoga philosophy.)

    Foreknowledge of death; one of the perfections of a Yogin:

    sopakramaṃ nirupakramaṃ ca karma tatsaṃyamādaparāntajñānamariṣṭebhyo

    i. e. ‘action (the consequence of which is preservation of

    life) is either deliberate or not; from the highest degree of

    meditation on it results the prescience of death, or also

    from ominous symptoms (such as one perceives in himself,

    when one loses the powers of hearing, seeing &c.--ādhyā-

    tmika--, or from apparitions of ghosts, Manes &c.--ādhi-

    bhautika--, or from divine visions as that of the paradise,

    of the Siddhas &c.--ādhidaivika qq. vv.). E. aparānta

    and jñāna.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 50, col. 3.
    aparānta-jñāna n. prescience of one's latter end.