# अपरिग्रह (aparigraha)

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अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) is a Sanskrit word meaning not including, non-acceptance or renouncing, poverty, destitute of possessions, destitute of attendants or of a wife, non-acceptance, renunciation. Its 16 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Non-acceptance or Renunciation, Lacking Possessions or Specifics, Destitution or Poverty.

- **Etymology:** E. अ neg. परिग्रह taking — E. a neg. parigraha taking
- **SLP1:** `aparigraha`  **IAST:** aparigraha  **Devanagari:** अपरिग्रह
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/aparigraha/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Non-acceptance or Renunciation (8 definitions)
- non-acceptance or renouncing  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > non-acceptance, renouncing (of any possession besides the necessary utensils of ascetics), Jaina literature (Literary category) [ ID=9540 ]
- Non-acceptance, rejection, or renunciation  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) [Printed book page 0110-a ] 1 Non-acceptance, rejection, renunciation, one of the several kinds of yamas (mental restraints) stated in Yoga Śāstra by Patañjali. [ ID=2453 ]
- Non-acceptance  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) [Printed book page 044 ] अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) m. ( - हः (-haḥ) ) Non-acceptance. E. अ (a) neg. परिग्रह (parigraha) taking. [ ID=2072 ]
- 1. Non-acceptance. 2. Independent.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) [Printed book page 035-a ] अ - परिग्रह (a-parigraha) ( हः ) ((haḥ)) 1. m. Non-acceptance. a. Independent. [ ID=1722 ]
- 1. Non-acceptance. 2. Destitution or poverty.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) (II) m. 1. Non-acceptance; 2. destitution, poverty. [ ID=2152 ]
- Non-acceptance  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) [Printed book page 037-a ] अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) m. ( - हः (-haḥ) ) Non-acceptance. E. अ (a) neg. परिग्रह (parigraha) taking. [ ID=2070 ]
- 1. Non-encompassing or non-comprehension. 2. Non-acceptance or the renunciation of everything that can afford enjoyment.  
  *Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) [Printed book page 172-a ] अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) Tatpur. m. ( - हः (-haḥ) ) 1 Non-encompassing, non-com- prehension; e. g. in the Vedānta Sūtra: अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) ाच्चात्यन्त - (aparigrahāccātyanta-) मनपेक्षा (manapekṣā). 2 Non-acceptance. In the latter sense this word has assumed a special bearing in the Yoga philosophy and in such passages of the Upan. and other writings (compare e. g. Wilson's Viṣṇup. p. 288. n. 2), as refer to the doctrine of this philosophy; it means there: renouncing every thing that can afford enjoyment, as a commentator observes, from the perception of the defects that inhere in mundane objects, as they must be acquired, preserved, as they pe- rish, produce affection and cause the infliction of injury ( Bhojadeva: अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha) ो भोगसाधनानामस्वीकरणम्; (aparigraho bhogasādhanānāmasvīkaraṇam;) another: विषयाणामर्जनरक्षणक्षयसङ्गहिंसादोषदर्शनादस्वीकरणमपरि - (viṣayāṇāmarjanarakṣaṇakṣayasaṅgahiṃsādoṣadarśanādasvīkaraṇamapari-) ग्रहः (grahaḥ) ); it is in the Yoga phil. the last of the five categories of the term यम (yama) q. v., the latter being one of the eight Angas or constituent parts of the Yoga (see योगाङ्ग (yogāṅga) ). Renun- ciation however must be understood there in its widest sense, also as indifference to one's own body, since the soul's as- suming a body is also परिग्रह (parigraha) or covetousness, for body is the instrument of enjoyment and passion is connected with it; and only the Yogin who is firm in the renun- ciation in this widest sense, obtains a knowledge of the condition of former and subsequent existences: अ (a) परिग्र - (aparigra-) हस्थैर्ये जन्मकथन्तासंबोधः (bodhaḥ) (hasthairye janmakathantāsaṃbodhaḥ) ( Bhojadeva: … न केवलं भोग - (…na kevalaṃ bhoga-) साधनपरिग्रह (parigraha) एव परिग्रह (parigraha) ः । किंतु यावदात्मनः शरीरग्रही (sādhanaparigraha eva parigrahaḥ. kiṃtu yāvadātmanaḥ śarīragrahī) ' पि परिग्रह (parigraha) ः । भोगसाधनत्वाच्छरीरस्य तस्मिन्सति रागानु - ('pi parigrahaḥ. bhogasādhanatvāccharīrasya tasminsati rāgānu-) बन्धात् । वहिर्मुखायामेव प्रवृत्तौ न तात्त्विकज्ञानप्रादुर्भावः । (bandhāt. vahirmukhāyāmeva pravṛttau na tāttvikajñānaprādurbhāvaḥ.) यदा पुनः शरीरादिपरिग्रह (parigraha) नैरपेक्ष्येण माध्यस्थ्यम (yama) ालम्बते तदा (yadā punaḥ śarīrādiparigrahanairapekṣyeṇa mādhyasthyamālambate tadā) मध्यस्थस्य रागादित्यागात्सम्यग्ज्ञानहेतुर्भवत्येव पूर्वापरजन्मसं - (madhyasthasya rāgādityāgātsamyagjñānaheturbhavatyeva pūrvāparajanmasaṃ-) बोधः (bodhaḥ) ). ( Jayamangala in his comm. on Bhaṭṭik. 1. 15. calls the fifth यम (yama), (yama,) contrary to the Yoga S., अ (a) कल्मष, (akalmaṣa,) equally so Hari- hara; but Vidyāvinodāchārya names it correctly in his comm. अ (a) परिग्रह (parigraha) (aparigraha).)--The comm. on the Sāṅkhya phil., while re- taining the definition of यम (yama) as given by Patanjali, have made यम (yama) one of the four categories of धर्म (dharma) (q. v.), righte- ousness, धर्म (dharma) being in the Sāṅkhya one of the four categories of बुद्धि (buddhi) (q. v.), intellect, when it is सात्विक (sātvika) or under the in- fluence of the quality of goodness. E. अ (a) neg. and परिग्रह (parigraha). [ ID=4797 ]
- 1. Non-acceptance, renunciation. 2. Deprivation, poverty. 3. Destitute of attendants.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) [Printed book page 0051-c ] अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) a-parigraha, as, m. non-accept- ance, renouncing; deprivation, destitution, poverty; ( as, ā, am ), destitute of or without attendants. [ ID=3376 ]

### Lacking Possessions or Specifics (4 definitions)
- destitute of possessions  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > अ - परिग्रह (a-parigraha) mfn. destitute of possession [ ID=9542 ]
- destitute of attendants or of a wife  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > destitute of attendants or of a wife, Kumāra-sambhava (Title) i, 54. [ ID=9543 ]
- Destitute of belongings  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) [Printed book page 038-14 ] अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) (I) a. (f. हा (hā) ) Destitute of belongings (as a Yogin ). [ ID=2151 ]
- having no property or wife  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > 2 अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) a. having no property or no wife. [ ID=1926 ]

### Destitution or Poverty (2 definitions)
- poverty  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > deprivation, destitution, poverty [ ID=9541 ]
- Destitution, poverty  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) [Printed book page 0110-a ] 2 Destitution, poverty. [ ID=2453 ]

### Non-inclusion or Non-comprehension (2 definitions)
- not including  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1) [Printed book page 51,1] अ - परिग्रह (a-parigraha) m. not including Comm. on Taittirīya-prātiśākhya (Title) [ ID=9539 ]
- 1. Non-acceptance. 2. Want of property.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) [Printed book page 028 ] 1 अपरिग्रह (aparigraha) m. non-comprehension, non-acceptance; want of property. [ ID=1925 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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