upalamBa
upalambha ( cf. Skt. id. ; not recorded in Pali ; cf. prec. , an-upa°, an-upalabdhi , the next items, and aupalambhika ), acc. to standard interpretation, mental perception or apperception, realization by the intellect ; Sūtrāl. xviii.92 comm. buddhyā pratipattiḥ; Tib. dmigs (-pa) thought, fancy, imagination; to construe in oneʼs mind , etc. ; see also LaVallée-Poussin, AbhidhK. Index s.v. upalabdhi. Were it not for this persistent tradition, some occurrences, esp. of the neg. forms ( an-upalambha, °labdhi ), could easily be interpreted as related to upalabhyate (1) and mg. (non-) occurrence , (non-) existence . These mgs. are attributed by CPD to an-upaladdhi, °labbhana; and tho not recognized in PTSD , occurrence, existence seems to me the probable mg. of upaladdhi in the two passages cited for it, Miln. 268.7 and Vv. comm. 279.10 . In many BHS places inconceivability or non-occurrence, non-reality would make equally good sense for an-upa°. I do not, however, venture to abandon what [Page140-b] seems to have been the standard tradition. Reliance on upalambha, mental perception, fancy , is an error, stigmatized as upalambha-dṛṣṭi, the heresy that relies on upalambha , LV 35.6 (or as Bhvr. , one who adheres to that heresy , SP 383.12 ); see also °dṛṣṭika. Similarly upalambha-saṃjñin Śikṣ 315.1 , having the (false) notion of upalambha ; upalambha-yogena, by the (erroneous) method of upalambha , ŚsP 1042.16 , repeated formulaically ( cf. anupalambha-yogena s.v. anupalambha ).