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a-raṇa , adj. and subst. nt. , also araṇā subst. f. (= Pali a-raṇa, adj. and subst. nt. ; araṇā not in Pali unless, by em. m.c. , in Pv iv.1.33 for text araṇa-vihārī, see CPD s.v. ; neg. of Pali , BHS raṇa , q.v. , = kleśa , Pali kilesa), ( 1 ) adj. , free from depravity, passion, impurity , = Tib. ñon moṅs pa (also = kleśa ) med pa : Divy 395.30 parvataguhānilayam araṇaṃ vairaparāṅmukhaṃ praśamayuktam; on Av ii.130.2 see s.v. araṇya ; RP 16.3 ( vs ), text araṇya-vividhaprānta sevamāno, read araṇa (required by meter; for °ṇaṃ) vivi°; in some cpds. seemingly adjectival, as araṇāśaya- (misprinted araṇaśaya), passionless heart , Dbh.g. 7(343).7 , which suggests that for the corrupt text maitrapeśi raṇvanāśayo (!) ghanaḥ Gv 482.25 ( vs ) we must read maitra peśir araṇāśayo (°aṇva° is unmetr. !) ghanaḥ; prob. also Mvy 617 araṇa-samavasaraṇa, n. of a samādhi, cited from ŚsP 1414.17 where saraṇa is added after araṇa; Mvy 618 , cited from same place; also araṇa-samādhi, [Page065-a] passionless samādhi , Mv i.164.15 , or having … ( Bhvr. ), Mvy 1125 (note that Pali uses araṇa as adj. with samādhi); ( 2 ) °ṇa, subst. nt. , freedom from passion or depravity, non-passion , etc. Mv i.165.5 ( vs ) sukhaṃ samādhiṃ araṇāni sevato; in cpds. , araṇa-bhāvanayā Samādh 19.4 (prose; cf. 3, below), by bringing to pass freedom from kleśas ; araṇavihārin (= Pali id. ), dwelling in a passionless state , Mvy 6366 (here araṇā-vihārin, below, seems to indicate that araṇa is substantival in force); ( 3 ) araṇā, subst. f. (on Pali see above), in BHS seems = araṇa nt. ; as separate word, in AbhidhK. see below, and Bbh 89.1 yā ca tathāgatasyāraṇā; in comp. , araṇā-vihārin = araṇa-v°, above; sometimes ā could be m.c. , as Divy 401.4 ; but in prose in the rest; Subhūti is the first of araṇāvihārin, AsP 20.8 ; Vaj 26.12 ; Av ii.131.5—6 ; AdP, Konow MASI 69 , 13.33 ; other cpds. , pratisamvid-araṇāpraṇidhi-jñānādīnāṃ (contains a four-member dvandva) guṇānāṃ Bbh 207.22 ; araṇā-bhāvanayā Samādh 8.16 (prose, = araṇa-bh°, above, in a closely parallel passage); araṇā-saṃpannā(ḥ) Mv ii.292.17 ; in LV 428.13 read with v.l. araṇā-dharma-supratilabdha for text araṇya°. LaVallée-Poussin, AbhidhK vii.86—88 defines araṇā as le pouvoir dʼempêcher la naissance de la passion dʼautrui ; but in my texts it seems to be much less complicated, a simple equivalent of araṇa. Did it start in verses, m.c. ( cf. Pali , above, Pv iv.1.33 ), and somehow come thence into prose? Or (more likely) was araṇā orig. adj. (to 1, above) with a fem. noun (samāpatti? cf. AbhidhK LaV.-P. iv.121 ; or maitrā, Pali mettā?). See also Renou. JA 1939 , 369 note 1 .