vijñānāhāra (13762)

vijñānāhāra
Entry 13762, Page 486, Col. 1

(vijYAnAhAra, vijYAnAhAra)
vijñānāhāra¦, m. (= Pali viññā°), the fourth kind of ‘food’ (see s.v. kavalīkārāhāra), acc. to PTSD con- sisting of vijñāna as the food or material cause from which rebirth arises: Mvy 2287. Dharmas 70 seems (corruptly) to have dhyānāhāra instead. Cf. LaVallée-Poussin, AbhidhK. iii.121, which however does not furnish a clear deflinition.