[INDOLOGY] privative a with finite verb?

[Raffaele Torella]

Dear Mattew,
you may add to your list a passage from Abhinavagupta’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛtivimarśinī in which the various levels of individual subjectivity (deha, prāṇa, buddhi, śūnya) are shown as pervaded by and finally transformed into pure consciousness (tadrasānuviddham eva): 

tadā bodhasvarūpīkṛtaṃ tadrasānuviddham eva śūnyādidehāntam avabhātīti (ĪPVV vol. III p. 330)

Cari saluti
Raffaele



> Il giorno 16 ott 2025, alle ore 23:23, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> ha scritto:
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> Dear Dominik,
> 
> The alchemical use of vidh sometimes occurs in Buddhist texts; see e.g. Bodhicaryāvatāra 1.10 and its comm. : rasajātam atīva vedhanîyam. However, in the context I was concerned with, it is part of the technical vocabulary of Prajñāpāramitā and refers to intuitive penetration of the ultimate truth. This is much discussed in the Abhisamayālamkara and its comms. Perhaps there is a meta-level on which these uses are related as applying to « transformative «  events. 
> 
> best,
> Matthew 
> 
> Matthew T. Kapstein
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Thursday, 10/16/25 at 15:44 Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com <mailto:wujastyk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Not on the privative prefix, but on the meaning of vidh, see 
> https://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2014/07/sanskrit-vidh-on-alchemical.html <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2014/07/sanskrit-vidh-on-alchemical.html&source=gmail-imap&ust=1761254637000000&usg=AOvVaw2SZzUa3qnwYnNMivY4XZ9q>
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> abhinandatitara,
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> Dominik
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