Anuttamambhasika, Anuttamāmbhasika, Anuttama-ambhasika: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anuttamāmbhasika (अनुत्तमाम्भसिक).—a term in Sāṅkhya Philosophy, said to mean 'indifference to and abstinence from sensual enjoyment, as fatiguing or involving injury to external objects.'

Derivable forms: anuttamāmbhasikam (अनुत्तमाम्भसिकम्).

Anuttamāmbhasika is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anuttama and ambhasika (अम्भसिक). See also (synonyms): anuttamāmbhas.

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

Anuttamāmbhasika (अनुत्तमाम्भसिक):—[=an-uttamāmbhasika] [from an-uttama] n. indifference to and abstinence from sensual enjoyment (as involving injury to external objects).

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

Anuttamāmbhasika (अनुत्तमाम्भसिक):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-kam) A technical term in the Sāṅkhya philosophy denoting one of the five sorts of external acquiescence or indifference (see tuṣṭi), viz. that condition of mind in which a man abstains from sensual enjoyments on the ground that it is sinful to injure created things, enjoyment however being impossible without doing so. Some call this indifference uttamāmbhas. Compare the preceding and the terms named there. E. anuttama and āmbhasika(?).

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