Aspriha, Aspṛha: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Aspṛha can be transliterated into English as Asprha or Aspriha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Aspṛha (अस्पृह) refers to “desireless” (and is used to describe one’s own self—Ātman), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Janaka says to Aṣṭavakra]: “[...] It is in the infinite ocean of myself that the imagination called the world takes place. I am supremely peaceful and formless, and as such I remain. My true nature is not contained in objects, nor does any object exist in it, for it is infinite and spotless. So it is unattached, desireless (aspṛha) and at peace, and as such I remain [ityasakto'spṛhaḥ śānta etadevāhamāsthitaḥ]. Truly I am but pure consciousness, and the world is like a conjuror's show, so how could I imagine there is anything there to take up or reject?”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Aspṛha (अस्पृह).—a. Undesirous; स्वकायपरमोऽस्पृहः (svakāyaparamo'spṛhaḥ) Manusmṛti 7.96.
Aspṛha (अस्पृह).—mfn.
(-haḥ-hā-haṃ) Undesirous, content, indifferent. E. a neg. spṛhā desire.
Aspṛha (अस्पृह).—[adjective] free from desires.
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Aspṛhā (अस्पृहा).—[feminine] no desire.
1) Aspṛha (अस्पृह):—[=a-spṛha] mfn. undesirous, [Manu-smṛti vi, 96]
2) Aspṛhā (अस्पृहा):—[=a-spṛhā] [from a-spṛha] f. no desire, [Gautama-dharma-śāstra; Bhaviṣya-purāṇa, khaṇḍa 1 & 2: bhaviṣya-purāṇa & bhaviṣyottara-purāṇa i.]
Aspṛha (अस्पृह):—[a-spṛha] (haḥ-hā-haṃ) a. Content.
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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.
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