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asesavirāganirodho
asesavirāganirodha
masc nom sg of asesavirāganirodha (noun)
- complete fading away and ending; remainderless dispassion and cessation
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- a — prefix · without, not
Plain negation; the prefix a- strips away or denies the following element. Cognates: English un-, Greek a(n)- (atheist).
- sesa — root · remainder, what is left
From the Sanskrit root śeṣ-, meaning 'to remain' or 'remainder'. The concrete sense of what persists after others are gone.
- virāga — stem · dispassion, fading of greed
From vi- 'apart, asunder' + rāga 'greed, passion': dispassion as the separation from passion. A key doctrinal term for the cooling of attachment.
- nirodha — stem · cessation, stopping
From ni- 'down, into' + rodha (from √rudh 'to stop, block'): cessation as a stopping-down or shutting off. In doctrine, the end of suffering through the extinguishing of craving.
- a — ending · nominative singular masculine
The nominative a-ending marks the subject case in masculine nouns of the a-stem class, identifying the word as the subject of a clause or in apposition.
Analysis. a-sesa virāga-nirodha, 'without remainder, dispassion-cessation': a compound of a-sesa ('without remainder') and the compound virāga-nirodha ('the cessation of dispassion'), designating the final cessation in the doctrine of nirvāṇa as total extinguishing with nothing left behind.