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    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 215, col. 1.
    apramudita Tatpur. 1. m. f. n. (-taḥ-tā-tam) Not delighted,

    not happy.

    2. n. (-tam) (In the Sāṅkhya philosophy.) The reverse

    of pramudita q. v., a technical term to denote the incapacity

    of removing the pains that are produced by any created

    beings viviparous, oviparous, generated by heat and moisture

    or springing from the soil (as men, beasts, tame and wild,

    birds, reptiles, gnats, musquitoes, lice, bugs, fish, alliga-

    tors, trees, stones &c.), by not attending for this purpose

    a holy teacher (the removal of such pains being required

    for the attainment of final liberation); it is amongst the

    seventeen buddhibadha or obstructions of intellect one of the

    eight which are the converse of the siddhi or perfections.

    For the other terms of this category see atāra (Supple-

    ment), atāratāra (Supplement), apramoda, apramodamāna,

    aramyaka, asadāpramudita, asutāra. E. a neg. and pramudita.