sabbūpadhipaṭinissaggo

sabbūpadhipaṭinissagga

masc nom sg of sabbūpadhipaṭinissagga (noun)

letting go all attachment; releasing all sense of ownership

Built from

sabba — root · all
Accusative plural feminine agreeing with upadhi; used attributively to emphasize totality of release.
upadhi — stem · substrate, attachment, fuel
The mental, emotional, and material conditions that sustain clinging and rebirth; a key doctrinal term for what must be abandoned.
paṭi — prefix · back, against, in return
Reversal and counter-movement; here marks the direction of the action as a turning-away from attachment.
nis — prefix · out, away from, without
Separation and extraction; combined with paṭi to intensify complete severance from all clinging.
sajja — root · cling, stick, adhere
The causative passive noun nissagga (letting-go, release) derives from √sañj; the negative prefix nis- reverses the action.
ga — ending · abstract noun marker
Forms abstract nouns from verbal roots; -ga here nominalizes the action into a state or event of release.

Analysis. sabbā (all, feminine plural accusative) + upadhi (substrate, attachment, fuel) + paṭi (back, away) + nissagga (letting go, abandonment): literally 'the letting-go-back of all substrates/attachments'; the compound denotes the complete relinquishment of the mental and material factors that fuel becoming, central to the path to Nibbāna.

Etymology. Pali paṭinissajjati, from paṭi- (back, against, returning) + nis- (out, away from) + √sañj (to cling, to stick): the prefix pair nis- + paṭi- intensifies the sense of complete release and reversal of clinging. Sanskrit paṭinissargaḥ. The compound sabbūpadhi- treats 'all substrates' as the direct object of the letting-go action; upadhi (fuel, substrate, attachment) is cognate with the notion of a foundation or support that sustains cyclic existence.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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