āgraha (2573)

āgraha
Entry 2573, Page 88, Col. 2

(Agraha, Agraha)
āgraha¦ (presumably m.; cf. āgṛhīta), niggardliness, holding back (from giving): SP 257.1 (after long description of how the Bodhisattva gave away everything, even his life) na ca me kadācid āgrahacittam utpannam, and I never conceived a thought of holding back (wrongly Burnouf and Kern); Av i.174.5 (vs; after 4 nādattvā paribhuñjīran na syur matsariṇas tathā,) na caiṣām āgrahe cittam utpa- dyeta kadācana, and there would never arise for them a thought of holding back (from giving). As Speyer points out in his Index to Av, KSS 90.22 probably contains the word āgraheṇa with niggardliness, holding back from giving; but this mg. has not been recognized; the ordinary Skt. usage is not quite the same.