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Activity. For the Vaibhāsika, the activity belongs only to a present dharma,<br>it is its efficacy of projecting its own fruit (existence) in the next moment of its<br>serial continuity. In this strict sense, this term is used in contradistinction from<br>other general terms designating function,potency, efficacy, etc, such as kriyā,<br>vyāpāra,sāmarthya, śakti, etc.  +
The ‘graspable’,the grasped (the ‘object’).  +
‘Homogeneous cause’. One of the six causes; it yields an effect which is<br> similar in moral species. —►svaphala-nirvartana.  +
The thought with which one makes the vow of undertaking.  +
Supramundane knowledge. The outflow-free knowledge acquired by an<br>ārya in the process of direct realization.  +
‘One who has been much detached;a practitioner who, <br>before entering into the darśanamārga, has already abandoned<br> (through the worldly path) the defilements abandonable by <br>cultivation, from six to eight categories.  +
One who has exhausted the outflows, an epithet for an arhat.  +
Knowledge that is produced in accordance with the particular manner of the<br> practitioner’s former resolution to have the knowledge.  +