1. abhāva
abhāva m. nonexistence, nullity, absence
The corpus record — Sanskrit
abhavan
abhāva m. nonexistence, nullity, absence
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Where it lives
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 3 · 0.4/10k
- Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. abhāva
non-entity, negation (the seventh category in Kaṇāda 's system)
3. abhāva
proof from nonexistence (one of the six pramāṇa s in Vedānta phil. [‘since there are no mice, therefore there must be cats here’] See pramāṇa)
In the wild
- abhavan Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,3.7
- abhavan Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,5.21
- abhavan Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_3,3.1
- abhavan Chandogya Upanisad chup_1,4.4
Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.