apramāṇa

Dictionary meanings for apramāṇa from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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apramāṇa

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. 1 Unlimited, immeas- urable, boundless.

2 Without authority, proof or weight, unau- thorized.

3 Not regarded as an authority, not trustworthy; ājanmanaḥ śāvyamaśikṣito yastasyāpramāṇaṃ vacanaṃ jana- sya Ś. 5. 25. ṇaṃ 1 That which can- not be taken as authority in ac- tions; i. e. a rule, direction &c. which cannot be accepted as obligatory.

2 Irrelevancy. Comp. ābhaḥ, śubhaḥ (pl.) ‘of unlimited...

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