apuruṣārtha

apuruṣārtha Tatpur. m. (-rthaḥ) ¹ (In the Mīmānsā philosophy.)

A religious act which is not performed on account of the

gratification of the sacrificer, but because it is essential to

the sacrifice itself; see kratvartha. ² (In the Sāṅkhya philos.)

Not the chief object of the Soul; occurring in the Sūtras

in its abstract deriv. apuruṣārthatva; e. g. apuruṣārthatvamubhayathā

‘in neither way is (nihilism) the chief end of the Soul’; or

nānuśrāvikādapi tatsiddhiḥ sādhyatvenāvṛttiyogādapuruṣārthatvam

‘the accomplishment thereof (i. e. of liberation) does not

arise, moreover, from scriptural means, for since trans-

migration is connected with the result (of religious acts,

the performance of such acts) is not the chief object of the

Soul’; or sukhalābhābhāvādapuruṣārthatvamiti cenna dvaividhyāt ‘if

you reason that, since there is no such a thing as obtain-

ing happiness, (final liberation as the absence of pain) is not

the chief object of the Soul, you are wrong, for its object

is twofold (viz. obtaining happiness and not having pain)’.

E. a neg. and puruṣārtha.

a-puruṣārtha m. a rite which is not for the benefit of the sacrificer

not the chief object of the soul.

apuruṣārtha m. nicht das Ziel des Menschen, der Seele; Nom. abstr. °tva n. Kap. 1, 47. 82; 5, 78.