pratyavasthāna (10257)

pratyavasthāna
Entry 10257, Page 376, Col. 2

(pratyavasTAna, pratyavasTAna)
pratyavasthāna¦, nt. (cf. AMg. paccavatthāṇa, ‘clearing of a doubt’; M. id., refutation), in Mvy 6507 is defined in Tib. and Chin. as (1) rejection; getting rid of (Tib. phyir gzhil ba), or (2) arrangement, establishment (Tib. so sor, severally, gzhag pa, arranging). Both mgs. are supported by forms or derivs. of Skt. praty-ava-sthā-, see pw. The word has been noted elsewhere only in Laṅk, where it usually, and I think always, has the second mg., establishment (of an intellectual truth or argument): tattva-pra°-kathā 77.7; pramāṇatrayāvayava-pra° 92.18; pra°-gati-svabhāva-93.11; siddhānta-pra° 172.6; svanaya- pra° 179.12 (°na-kathāṃ cintayan, thinking on a discourse for establishment of his own philosophic method; here only, Suzuki assumes mg. 1, rejection, but certainly wrongly); also svanaya-pra° 193.12; 230.14, 15; -jñānādhigama- pra° 194.18.