aparigraha

E. a neg. parigraha taking.

prehension; e. g. in the Vedānta Sūtra: aparigrahāccātyanta-

manapekṣā. ² Non-acceptance. In the latter sense this word

has assumed a special bearing in the Yoga philosophy and

in such passages of the Upan. and other writings (compare

e. g. Wilson's Viṣṇup. p. 288. n. 2), as refer to the doctrine

of this philosophy; it means there: renouncing every thing

that can afford enjoyment, as a commentator observes,

from the perception of the defects that inhere in mundane

objects, as they must be acquired, preserved, as they pe-

rish, produce affection and cause the infliction of injury

(Bhojadeva: aparigraho bhogasādhanānāmasvīkaraṇam; another:

viṣayāṇāmarjanarakṣaṇakṣayasaṅgahiṃsādoṣadarśanādasvīkaraṇamapari-

grahaḥ); it is in the Yoga phil. the last of the five categories of

the term yama q. v., the latter being one of the eight Angas

or constituent parts of the Yoga (see yogāṅga). Renun-

ciation however must be understood there in its widest sense,

also as indifference to one's own body, since the soul's as-

suming a body is also parigraha or covetousness, for body

is the instrument of enjoyment and passion is connected

with it; and only the Yogin who is firm in the renun-

ciation in this widest sense, obtains a knowledge of the

condition of former and subsequent existences: aparigra-

hasthairye janmakathantāsaṃbodhaḥ (Bhojadeva: …na kevalaṃ bhoga-

sādhanaparigraha eva parigrahaḥ . kiṃtu yāvadātmanaḥ śarīragrahī

'pi parigrahaḥ . bhogasādhanatvāccharīrasya tasminsati rāgānu-

bandhāt . vahirmukhāyāmeva pravṛttau na tāttvikajñānaprādurbhāvaḥ .

yadā punaḥ śarīrādiparigrahanairapekṣyeṇa mādhyasthyamālambate tadā

madhyasthasya rāgādityāgātsamyagjñānaheturbhavatyeva pūrvāparajanmasaṃ-

bodhaḥ). (Jayamangala in his comm. on Bhaṭṭik. 1. 15. calls the

fifth yama, contrary to the Yoga S., akalmaṣa, equally so Hari-

hara; but Vidyāvinodāchārya names it correctly in his comm.

aparigraha.)--The comm. on the Sāṅkhya phil., while re-

taining the definition of yama as given by Patanjali, have

made yama one of the four categories of dharma (q. v.), righte-

ousness, dharma being in the Sāṅkhya one of the four categories

of buddhi (q. v.), intellect, when it is sātvika or under the in-

fluence of the quality of goodness. E. a neg. and parigraha.

m. (-haḥ) Non-acceptance.

E. a neg. parigraha taking.

— 1) das Nichtumfassen , Nichteinschliessen Comm. zu. TS. PRĀT. 16,29.

— 2) Besitzlosigkeit 285,28.

— 1) besitzlos.

— 2) unbeweibt KUMĀRAS. 1,54.

— 4. bei den Jaina das Sichenthalten von jeglicher Verblendung in bezug auf alles Unreale, Sarvad. 32, 22; 33, 9.

— niemand gehörend, Hemādri 1, 446, 18.

— 4. nicht zu umspannen mit (Instr.), R. 1, 13, 25.