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‘Maintainer/holder of mātṛkā'; the ancient specialists in what later on evolved<br> to be the Ābhidharmikas.  +
That which is exceedingly obstructive (a= atyartham, 'exceedingly'; gha=hanti<br> 'strike/obstruct'; atyarthaṃ hanti hanyate ceti agham); <br>i.e., agglomerated obstructive matter.  +
Non-endowment. A viprayukta-samskāra. When a dharma <br>is lost or disconnected from a person and continues to be disconnected,<br>he has the asamanvāgama of that dharma. Its svabhāva is aprāpti.  +
(1)Having a mode of activity; this refers to the'fact that all citta-caitta-<br>-dharma-s can cognize an object. (2) Having the same mode ofactivity,<br> one of the conditions for samprayoga. pañcadhā samatā.  +
Preparatory efforts (prayoga) conducing to liberation. They essentially<br>comprise śamatha and vipaśyanā meditational practices.  +
Unhindered knowledge with regard to etymology, one of the four types of <br>pratisaṃvid. —►artha-pratisaṃvid.  +
A worldling who has not abandoned any defilements through the mundane<br>path before becoming an ārya.  +
Atoms in agglomeration, ‘aggregate-atom’, akin to the modern conception<br> of a molecule.  +
The ‘lower/inferior vehicle’;a derogatory term used by the Mahāyāna <br>to refer to the Buddhist schools which emerged in the Abhidharma period.  +
The characteristic of rūpa (primarily: obstructiveness and resistance).  +