aprakaraṇa

relevant matter, incidental or irrelevant matter (of a book,

a discussion &c.); e. g. Śaṅkara on a passage of the Bṛhadār.:

jñānakarmaṇī eva hi medhātapaḥśabdavācye . tayoḥ prakṛtatvānnetare

medhātapasī . aprakaraṇāt; applied also to those passages in

the Brāhmaṇas which are considered as not connected with,

or irrelevant to, the principal topics of an injunction with

which they may happen to be found together in the same

chapter or book, and which therefore do not share in the

rules that apply to the latter, but become the subject of

special injunctions; comp. anārabhyādhīta and the following;

e. g. in the Jaimini Sūtra: aprakaraṇe tu taddharmato viśeṣāt.

E. a neg. and prakaraṇa.