उपादान (upādāna) is a Sanskrit word meaning appropriating to oneself, perceiving, noticing, learning, acquiring knowledge, accepting, allowing, including, employment, use, saying, speaking, mentioning, enumeration, withdrawing the organs of sense from the outer world. Its 20 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them Taking, Acquiring, Appropriating, Cause/Material Cause (Philosophy), Abstraction/Withdrawing Senses.
1. Taking, seizure, or appropriation. 2. Apprehension. 3. Admission or non-exclusion. 4. Employment. 5. Mention or quotation. 6. Material cause.
उपादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 054-2] उपादान (upādāna) upa‿ādāna, n. taking, seizure, appropriation; apprehension; admission, non-exclusion; employment; mention, quotation; material cause. [ID=4847]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Taking or abduction. 2. Restraining the senses. 3. A cause or motive. 4. A material cause. 5. An expression with a double meaning. 6. Speaking.
उप (upa)ादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 160] उप (upa)ादान (upādāna) n. (-नं (-naṃ))
1 Taking away, abduction, taking.
2 Abstraction, restraining the organs of sense and perception.
3 Cause, motive.
4 Immediate or proximate cause.
5 The formal or distinct form, the material cause.
6 A double meaning, an expression conveying a sense besides that which appears intended.
7 Saying, speaking.
E. उप (upa) near, आदा (ādā) to take, ल्युट् (lyuṭ) aff.
[ID=7608]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Taking away or abstraction. 2. A cause. 3. Speaking.
उपादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 131-b] उपा_दान (upā_dāna)(नं) ((naṃ)) 1. n. Taking away; abstraction; cause, double meaning; speaking. [ID=7019]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Taking, receiving, or acquiring. 2. Conveying an additional sense beyond what is expressed. 3. Withdrawing the senses from the outer world. 4. A material cause. 5. Mention or enumeration. 6. A cause or motive.
उपादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 144-36] उपादान (upādāna)n. 1. Taking, receiving, acquiring, विस्रब्धं ब्राह्मणः शूद्राद्द्रव्योपार्जनमाचरेत् (visrabdhaṃ brāhmaṇaḥ śūdrāddravyopārjanamācaret)M. viii.417; 2. conveying some sense in addition to that actually expressed, स्वसिद्धये पराक्षेपः (svasiddhaye parākṣepaḥ) … उपादान (upādāna)म् (upādānam)K.Pr. ii.; 3. withdrawing the organs of sense from the outer world; 4. the material out of which anything is formed, a material cause, निमित्तमेव ब्रह्म स्यादुपादानं च वेक्षणात् (nimittameva brahma syādupādānaṃ ca vekṣaṇāt)Adhikaraṇaratnamālā , Sank.K. 9; 5. mention, enumeration; 6. a cause, a motive. [ID=6979]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Taking or abduction. 2. Restraining the senses. 3. Cause or motive. 4. Immediate cause. 5. Material cause. 6. A double meaning. 7. Speaking.
उप (upa)ादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 131-b] उप (upa)ादान (upādāna)
n. (-नं (-naṃ))
1. Taking away, abduction, taking.
2. Abstraction, restraining the organs of sense and perception.
3. Cause, motive. 4. Immediate or proximate cause.
5. The formal or distinct form, the material cause.
6. A double meaning, an expression conveying a sense besides that which appears intended.
7. Saying, speaking.
E. उप (upa) near, आदा (ādā) to take, ल्युट् (lyuṭ) aff.
1. Taking, acquiring, or appropriating.
2. Non-exclusion or addition.
3. Enumeration or mention.
4. The material cause.
उपादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 091] उपादान (upādāna)n. taking, acquiring, appropriating; non-exclusion, addition; enumeration, mention; the material cause (ph.). [ID=5922]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
appropriation
उपादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 134-a] upādāna,n. the taking to one's self; appropriation. [√1dā + upa_ā, ‘take.’] [ID=863]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
1. Taking, acquiring, or appropriating to oneself.
2. Accepting, employing, or using.
3. Mentioning, enumerating, or speaking.
4. Including or containing.
5. Withdrawing the senses from the outer world.
6. A cause, motive, or material cause.
7. An expression conveying a double meaning.
8. Conception.
9. Physical or verbal effort.
उपादान (upādāna) [Printed book page 0171-b] Upā-dāna, am, n. taking, acquiring, taking away, abduction, appropriating to one's self, accepting, em- ployment, using, becoming familiar with; mentioning, enumeration; saying, speaking; including, containing; abstraction, withdrawing the organs of sense and per- ception from the outer world; cause, motive; imme- Page0171-c+ 74 diate or proximate cause; the formal or distinct form, the material cause; a double meaning, an expression conveying a sense besides that which appears in- tended; (with Buddhists) conception; effort or ex- ertion of body or speech. —Upādāna-kāraṇa, am, n. a proximate cause. [ID=12120]
