The Sanskrit terms Avipraṇāśa and Avipraṇaśa can be transliterated into English as Avipranasa or Avipranasha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Avipraṇaśa (अविप्रणश) refers to the “non-cessation of actions”, according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter 19).—The comparison of action to a contract, a debt, is used by the Sāmmitīyas to illustrate their doctrine on the ‘non-cessation’ (avipraṇāśa) of actions; cf. Madh. vṛtti, p. 317–318: “When action arises, it engenders a non-cessation (avipraṇaśa) of itself in the series of the agent, an entity dissociated from the mind and comparable to the page on which debts (ṛṇapattra [ṛṇapatra?]) are recorded. Therefore we know that the avipraṇaśa is like the page and the action giving rise to this entity called avipranaśa is like the debt. And just as a rich man does not lose his money when he lends it because the debt is written down on the page, just as he will recover his money five-fold at the desired time, so the action that has ceased, being recorded in the avipranaśa entity, brings the proper fruit to the agent. [...]”.

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

Avipraṇāśa (अविप्रणाश) [=Avipraṇāśatā?] refers to the “absence of destruction”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as Gaganagañja said to Ratnapāṇi: “Son of good family, those sixty-four dharmas are included in one hundred twenty-eight dharmas. What are those one hundred twenty-four? [...] (62) desire is included in the absence of what belongs to the ego and property; (63) cause is included in the absence of destruction (avipraṇāśatā) and never turning back from its cause; (64) condition is included in the absence of any kind of deceptiveness and the attainment of the fruit according to their faith; [...]’”.

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

Avipraṇāśa (अविप्रणाश):—[=a-vipraṇāśa] m. (said of the actions) the not perishing, continuing through their fruits, [Mahābhārata xv, 923.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Avipranasha in German

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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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Partial matches: Vipranasha, A.

Starts with: Avipranashata.

Full-text: Vipranasha, Rinapattra, Pattra, Rinapatra, Patra, Shashvata, Acyuta, Cyuta, Ashashvata, Avipranashata, Vipranashata, Akashasama, Sammitiyanikayashastra.

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