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The corpus record — Sanskrit

sādhāraṇa

sA/ DAraRa mf(ī or ā)n. ‘having or resting on the same support or basis’, belonging or applicable to many or all, general, common to all, universal, common to ( gen. dat. instr. with and without saha, or comp. ), RV. &c. &c.

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Where it lives

  • Prasna Upanisad 1 · 1.53/10k
  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 5 · 0.66/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. sādhāraṇa

sA/ DAraRa mf(ī or ā)n. ‘having or resting on the same support or basis’, belonging or applicable to many or all, general, common to all, universal, common to ( gen. dat. instr. with and without saha, or comp. ), RV. &c. &c.

2. sādhāraṇa

having something of two opposite properties, occupying a middle position, mean (between two extremes, e.g. ‘neither too dry nor too wet’, ‘neither too cool nor too hot’), Suśr. ; Kām. ; VarBṛS.

3. sādhāraṇa

(in logic) belonging to more than the one instance alleged (one of the three divisions of the fallacy called anaikāntika, q.v. )

In the wild

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.