a-raṇa (1867)

a-raṇa
Entry 1867, Page 64, Col. 2

(araRa, a-raRa)
a-raṇa¦, adj. and subst. nt., also araṇā subst. f. (= Pali a-raṇa, adj. and subst. nt.; araṇā not in Pali unless, by em. m.c., in Pv iv.1.33 for text araṇa-vihārī, see CPD s.v.; neg. of Pali, BHS raṇa, q.v., = kleśa, Pali kilesa), (1) adj., free from depravity, passion, impurity, = Tib. ñon moṅs pa (also = kleśa) med pa: Divy 395.30 parvataguhānilayam araṇaṃ vairaparāṅmukhaṃ praśa- mayuktam; on Av ii.130.2 see s.v. araṇya; RP 16.3 (vs), text araṇya-vividhaprānta sevamāno, read araṇa (required by meter; for °ṇaṃ) vivi°; in some cpds. seemingly adjec- tival, as araṇāśaya- (misprinted araṇaśaya), passionless heart, Dbh. g. 7(343).7, which suggests that for the corrupt text maitrapeśi raṇvanāśayo (!) ghanaḥ Gv 482.25 (vs) we must read maitra peśir araṇāśayo (°aṇva° is unmetr.!) ghanaḥ; prob. also Mvy 617 araṇa-samavasaraṇa, n. of a samādhi, cited from ŚsP 1414.17 where saraṇa is added after araṇa; Mvy 618, cited from same place; also araṇa- [Page065-a+ 71] samādhi, passionless samādhi, Mv i.164.15, or having… (Bhvr.), Mvy 1125 (note that Pali uses araṇa as adj. with samādhi); (2) °ṇa, subst. nt., freedom from passion or depravity, non-passion, etc. Mv i.165.5 (vs) sukhaṃ sa- mādhiṃ araṇāni sevato; in cpds., araṇa-bhāvanayā Samādh 19.4 (prose; cf. 3, below), by bringing to pass freedom from kleśas; araṇavihārin (= Pali id.), dwelling in a passionless state, Mvy 6366 (here araṇā-vihārin, below, seems to indicate that araṇa is substantival in force); (3) araṇā, subst. f. (on Pali see above), in BHS seems = araṇa nt.; as separate word, in AbhidhK, see below, and Bbh 89.1 yā ca tathāgatasyāraṇā; in comp., araṇā-vihārin = araṇa-v°, above; sometimes ā could be m.c., as Divy 401.4; but in prose in the rest; Subhūti is the first of ara- ṇāvihārin, AsP 20.8; Vaj 26.12; Av ii.131.5--6; AdP, Konow MASI 69, 13.33; other cpds., pratisamvid-araṇā- praṇidhi-jñānādīnāṃ (contains a four-member dvandva) guṇānāṃ Bbh 207.22; araṇā-bhāvanayā Samādh 8.16 (prose, = araṇa-bh°, above, in a closely parallel passage); araṇā-saṃpannā(ḥ) Mv ii.292.17; in LV 428.13 read with v.l. araṇā-dharma-supratilabdha for text araṇya°. La Vallée-Poussin, AbhidhK vii.86--88 defines araṇā as le pouvoir d'empêcher la naissance de la passion d'autrui; but in my texts it seems to be much less complicated, a simple equivalent of araṇa. Did it start in verses, m.c. (cf. Pali, above, Pv iv.1.33), and somehow come thence into prose? Or (more likely) was araṇā orig. adj. (to 1, above) with a fem. noun (samāpatti? cf. AbhidhK LaV.-P. iv. 121; or maitrā, Pali mettā?). See also Renou. JA 1939, 369 note 1.

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