उपादानम् [upādānam] 1 Taking, receiving, acquisition, obtaining; विश्रब्धं ब्राह्मणः शूद्राद् द्रव्योपादानमाचरेत्
[Ms.8.417;] 12.7; विद्या˚
[K.75.] Taking away, appropriating to oneself.
Employment, using; becoming familiar with.
Mention, enumeration; किमास्योपादाने प्रयोजनम्
[Mbh.I.1.9.] Saying, speaking.
Including, containing.
Withdrawing the organs of sense and perception from the external world and its objects.
A cause; motive, natural or immediate cause; पाटवोपादानः भ्रमः
[U.3.] v. l.; प्रकृष्टपुण्य- परिपाकोपादानो महिमा स्यात्
[U.6.] The material out of which anything is made, the material cause; निमित्तमेव ब्रह्म स्यादुपादानं च वेक्षणात् adhikaraṇamālā.
A mode of expression in which a word used elliptically, besides retaining its own primary sense, conveys another (in addition to that which is actually expressed); स्वसिद्धये पराक्षेपः ... उपादानम्
[K. P.2.] (With Buddhists) conception; grasping at or clinging to existence (caused by तृष्णा and causing भव). (With Rāmānujas) preparation (of perfumes, flowers &c. as one of the five elements of worship).
Effort of body or speech.
N. N. of the four contentments mentioned in सांख्यकारिका as प्रकृत्युपादानकालभागाख्याः Sāṅ.
[K.5.] -Comp.
-कारणम् a material cause; प्रकृतिश्चोपादान- कारणं च ब्रह्माभ्युपगन्तव्यम् Ś. B.
-लक्षणा = अजहत्स्वार्था q. v.; see
[K. P.2;] [S. D.14.]