abhijānāti (1475)

abhijānāti
Entry 1475, Page 50, Col. 2

(aBijAnAti, aBijAnAti)
abhijānāti¦ (= Pali id.), (1) knows by abhijñā, q.v. The technical Buddhist meaning of the noun is certainly at times associated with the verb, which in Skt. means knows in a very general way. The extent to which the spe- cial Buddhist sense is present in the verb is often doubtful; I list a few cases where it seems pretty clear: abhijānāmi SP 200.8 (Burnouf and Kern, remember, I think wrongly); Mv i.57.7, 12; Gv 446.14; Vaj 34.20. The translation remember, also given CPD, is due to the fact that events of the past are often referred to; but I think the Buddha (the usual subject in such cases) knows them by super- natural knowledge or so-called intuition (abhijñā, q.v.), not by memory; (2) recognizes (as a duty), takes upon oneself (a vow or undertaking); so also in Pali, e.g. MN i.80.5 (definitions in Pali dictionaries including CPD hardly do justice to this mg.): LV 254.2 abhijānāmy ahaṃ…ekam evādvitīyaṃ kolam āhāram āhartum, I undertake to allow myself to eat only a single kola as food; similarly LV 255.8, 15.

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