upādāna (3847)

upādāna
Entry 3847, Page 144, Col. 2

(upAdAna, upAdAna)
upādāna¦, nt. (cf. upādāya, °diyati; = Pali id., in all senses except 4; in Skt. hardly used in these mgs.), and in Bhvr cpds. (various mgs.) sopādāna (sa-up°) adj., [Page145-a+ 71] having, characterized by up°, and neg. an-up°, nir-up°, without up°: (1) fuel (app. as the substratum or material cause) of fire: Mv ii.270.14 analo upādānaṃ (sc. bhasmī- karoti); Gv 502.10--11 agnir yāvad upādānaṃ labhate; Śikṣ 226.1 yathāgnir upādānavaikalyān na jvalati; (2) grasping, clinging, addiction: Śikṣ 104.14 parṣad-anupādāna- tayā, (by) having no addiction to company (Bendall and Rouse); in most passages not clearly distinguishable from (3); Laṅk 23.7 (vs) te bhonti nirupādānā ihāmutra nirañ- janāḥ; Mvy 2144 upādānam, foll. by granthaḥ, nīvaraṇam; 7066 upādāna-hetuḥ; LV 180.12 sarvopādānaparigrahair anarthiko (of the Bodhisattva); 244.(2--)3 (nāpi saṃskṛtā- nāṃ sāśravānāṃ) sopādānānāṃ dhyānasamādhisamā- pattīnāṃ doṣo datto bhavet; 358.20 (vs) yāsyanti niru- pādānāḥ phalaprāptivaraṃ śubhaṃ; 392.13 anādāno 'nupādāno 'vijñapto…(of Buddha's dharma); Av ii.188.10 abhinandanāyopādānāya adhyavasānāya (em.) saṃvartate (of a heretical opinion); Dbh 48.9 (saṃskārair avaropitaṃ cittabījaṃ) sāsravaṃ sopādānam…bhavati; (3) clinging to existence, specifically (undoubtedly this is meant in some passages cited under 2); esp. as one of the links in the chain of the pratītyasamutpāda; it is produced by tṛṣṇā, and produces bhava (as in Pali, taṇhāpaccayā upā- dānaṃ, upādānapaccayā bhavo): Mv ii.285.10--11 tṛṣṇā- pratyayam upādānaṃ, upādānapratyayo bhavo; Mvy 2250; Dharmas 42; modulations of the same formula LV 346.12, 15; RP 48.6; Dbh 48.16; a peculiar one LV 420.4--5 (vs) tṛṣṇāta sarva upajāyati duḥkhaskandhaḥ, (5) upādā- nato (read upa° m.c.) bhavati sarva bhavapravṛttiḥ, where obviously duḥkhaskandha = upādāna, see below, 4; also pañcopādāna-skandhāḥ (= Pali pañc’ upādānak- khandhā), the five skandha which are the basis of clinging to existence (otherwise called simply the 5 skandha, q.v.) Mvy 1831; Av ii.168.1; pañcasu upādānaskandheṣu Mv iii.53.3; Divy 294.4; (listed as rūpa, vedanā, saṃjñā, saṃskāra, pl., vijñāna, Mvy 1832--6; Mv iii.53.4--7; Divy 294.5--7;) skandhā sopādānā jñānena mayā parijñātā LV 371.20 (vs); in the first of the 4 noble truths, saṃkṣepeṇa (LV °pāt, Mv saṃkṣiptena) pañcopādānaskandhā (Mvy °dha-) duḥkham (Mv duḥkhā) Mvy 2240; Mv iii.332.4; LV 417.7; (4) in SP 75.2 sorrow, misery (cf. LV 420.4--5, cited under 3 above), prītīprāmodyajāto nir-upādāno (free from sorrow) vigata-nivaraṇo (see s.v. nivaraṇa), said of the man whose sons have been brought out of a burning house. Burnouf cites Tib. as rendering upādāna here by mya ṅan, which regularly renders Skt. śoka, grief; and no other interpretation seems possible. It is an outgrowth of (3) as used in religious language.

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