Anupurva, Anupūrva, Ānupūrva: 13 definitions

Introduction
In Buddhism
1. Mahayana
Languages
1. Sanskrit
2. Kannada
3. Nepali
See also

Introduction:

Anupurva means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व) refers to “regular order”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Then on that occasion the Lord uttered these verses: [...] (113) Not being attached to this side nor that side, sailing the vessel of the dharma, and liberating living beings without any idea of them, that is called the sameness of the Bodhisattva (114) He who knows that the three realms are just like a wilderness which is void and unchangeable, but who still liberates living beings according to regular order (anupūrva), he is a caravan leader who guides the way to ambrosia. [...]”.

context information

Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व).—a. [anugataḥ pūrvaṃ paripāṭīṃ kramaṃ vā]

1) Regular, having a suitable measure, regularly shaped, symmetrical; वृत्तानुपूर्वे च न चातिदीर्घे (vṛttānupūrve ca na cātidīrghe) Kumārasambhava 1.35; ततोनुपूर्वायत- वृत्तबाहुः (tatonupūrvāyata- vṛttabāhuḥ) Kirātārjunīya 17.5 (gopucchākāra Malli.); जङ्घे अनुपूर्ववृ (jaṅghe anupūrvavṛ) Daśakumāracarita 131; °ताम्राङ्गुली बाहुलते (tāmrāṅgulī bāhulate) ibid.; °केश (keśa) who has regular hair; °गात्र (gātra) having regularly shaped limbs; so °दंष्ट्र, °नाभि, °पाणि (daṃṣṭra, °nābhi, °pāṇi).

2) Orderly, successive, in due order or succession; coming in order, following.

3) The lowest (nikṛṣṭapramāṇa); अनुपूर्वा इतरे (anupūrvā itare) Kāty.

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Ānupūrva (आनुपूर्व).—[anupūrvasya bhāvaḥ ṣyañ tato vā ṅīṣi yalopaḥ]

1) Order, succession, series; देव्या चाख्यातं सर्वमेवानु- पूर्व्याद्वाचा संपूर्णं वायुपुत्रः शशंस (devyā cākhyātaṃ sarvamevānu- pūrvyādvācā saṃpūrṇaṃ vāyuputraḥ śaśaṃsa) Rām.5.65.28 वसीरन्नानुपूर्व्येण शाणक्षौमाविकानि च (vasīrannānupūrvyeṇa śāṇakṣaumāvikāni ca) Manusmṛti 2.41.

2) (In law) The regular order of the castes; षडानुपूर्व्या विप्रस्य क्षत्रस्य चतुरोऽवरान् (ṣaḍānupūrvyā viprasya kṣatrasya caturo'varān) Manusmṛti 3.23.

3) (In logic) Conclusion regularly or syllogistically drawn.

-vat Having a (definite) order; आनुपूर्व्यवतामेकदेशग्रहणेषु आगमवदन्त्यलोपः स्यात् (ānupūrvyavatāmekadeśagrahaṇeṣu āgamavadantyalopaḥ syāt) | Manusmṛti 1.5.1.

Derivable forms: ānupūrvam (आनुपूर्वम्).

See also (synonyms): ānupūrvya, ānupūrvī.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व).—adj. (compare Pali anupubba; Sanskrit anupūrva hardly in the following senses), (1) tapering, Tibetan (Mahāvyutpatti 273 etc.) byin gyis phra ba, becoming (gradually) smaller (Jäschke (Tibetan-English Dictionary) s.v. byin po, by degrees, more and more fine); so in Pali Jātaka (Pali) v.155.22, of thighs (ūrū), tapering (not regularly formed with Critical Pali Dictionary, [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary]): Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 338.8 yāvad brahmalokam uccaistvena, anupūrvapariṇāhena, reaching [Page030-b+ 71] to Brahmaloka in height, tapering in circumference (i.e. each smaller than the next lower); anupūrvāṅguli with tapering (so Burnouf correctly, effilés) fingers, Pali anu- pubbaṅguli, one of the anuvyañjana, Mahāvyutpatti 273; Dharmasaṃgraha 84; (anupūrvacitrāṅguli) Lalitavistara 106.12; Mahāvastu ii.43.9; anupūrva- pāṇilekha, with tapering lines of the hand, another anuvyañ- jana, Lalitavistara 106.15; Mahāvastu ii.43.14 (other versions read āyata long instead of anupūrva); anupūrva-daṃṣṭra, with tapering (so Tibetan) teeth, another anuvyañjana Lalitavistara 107.6; Mahāvyutpatti 325; Dharmasaṃgraha 84 (not in Pali); anupūrva-sujāta-skandho Mahāvastu ii.71.16, of a lion, with tapering, well-formed shoulders; anupūrvapravaṇam anupūrvaprāgbhāram Divyāvadāna 113.5, of a mountain, with tapering slopes and sides (getting smaller as they rise); in 113.15 same, preceded by anupūrva- nimnam; anupūrvonnatāni (padmapuṣpāṇi) (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 62.5 taperingly lofty, i.e. placed one above another, each smaller than the one below; °va-grīvā Lalitavistara 27.6 with tapering neck; here Tibetan mgul rim bzhin du ḥdug pa, neck made in regular stages or the like (not the usual expression); anu- pūrva-samudgate, of the shanks (jaṅghe) of the mahā- puruṣa, Gaṇḍavyūha 400.6, in explaining the epithet aiṇeya- jaṅgha; (2) made according to regular order or arrangement, Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti 288 rim par ḥtsham pa, according to regular order: °va-gātra, one of the anuvyañjana, whose limbs are all as they should be in arrangement, Lalitavistara 106.21; Mahāvastu ii.44.3; Mahāvyutpatti 288; Dharmasaṃgraha 84 (Pali anupubba-gatta, and anu- pubba-rucira-gatta); anupūrva (so with v.l.) -surucirāṅgo (compare the Pali just cited) Mahāvastu iii.85.9, said of the horse Valāha; (3) noun, m. (compare Pali anupubba, nt., Sanskrit ānupūrva, nt., and ānupurvī, f.), regular order; serial process: Śikṣāsamuccaya 108.3 anupūrva eṣo iha śāsanasya, naikena janmena labheta bodhim, this serial (successive) process applies to the teaching in this world; one cannot get enlightenment in a single birth. See the following entries.

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Ānupūrvā (आनुपूर्वा).—(= Sanskrit °va, nt., and °vī, f.; perhaps read °vī here?), regular order: Mahāvastu ii.224.(11—)12 (jātena jīvaloke sarveṇa avaśyaṃ, for which read °ya m.c., martavyaṃ) eṣā kilānupūrvā.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व) or Anupūrvva.—mfn.

(-rvaḥ-rvā-rvaṃ) Regular, orderly, successively, from the preceding E. anu after, pūrva prior.

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Ānupūrva (आनुपूर्व) or Ānupūrvva.—nf.

(-rvaṃ-rvīṃ) 1. Order, series, succession. 2. (In law) Direct order of the castes. 3. (In logic) A conclusion, regularly or syllogistically deduced. E. anu subsequent, pūrva first, aṇ affix; also ānupūrva and ānupūrvaka.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व).—[anu-pūrva], adj. f. vā. 1. Following whoever or whatever precedes. 2. Regular.

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Ānupūrva (आनुपूर्व).—i. e. anupūrva + a, I. n. Regular succession, order, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 2, 41. Ii. f. rvī, see the next.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व).—[adjective] following in one’s turn, successive, orderly, regular. °—, anupūrvam & anupūrvaśas in due order, successively, further.

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Ānupūrva (आनुपूर्व).—[neuter] pūrvī [feminine], pūrvya [neuter] order, succession; [instrumental] in due order, one after the other.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व):—[=anu-pūrva] mf(ā)n. regular, orderly, in successive order from the preceding

2) Ānupūrva (आनुपूर्व):—nf (ī). ([from] anu-pūrva), order, series, succession, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa] etc.

3) (in law) direct order of the castes, [Manu-smṛti; Yājñavalkya etc.]

4) (generally only [instrumental case] -eṇa and -yā, one after the other, in due order.)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.

(-rvaḥ-rvā-rvam) 1) Following what pre-cedes, successive.

2) Orderly, in regular or proper order; anupūrvam used adv., in regular or proper order, successively. Comp. anupūrvaśas.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Anupūrva (अनुपूर्व):—[anu-pūrva] (rvvaḥ-rvvā-rvvaṃ) a. Successive.

2) Ānupūrva (आनुपूर्व):—[ānu-pūrva] (rvvaṃ-rvvī) 1. n. 3. f. Order.

[Sanskrit to German]

Anupurva in German

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Anupūrva (ಅನುಪೂರ್ವ):—[adjective] = ಅನುಪೂರ್ವಕ [anupurvaka].

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Ānupūrva (आनुपूर्व):—n. 1. regular order; sequence; series; 2. the regular order of the castes; 3. conclusion syllogistically drawn; synthesis;

context information

Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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