Foreknowledge of death; one of the perfections of a Yogin:
sopakramaṃ nirupakramaṃ ca karma tatsaṃyamādaparāntajñānamariṣṭebhyo
vā 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.