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tassuddānaṁ

tassuddāna

accusative singular of tassuddāna (m.)

1. his/its extraction or summary
2. the drawing out of that
3. (in canonical usage) the phrase introducing a subject index or mnemonic list

Built from

• ud — prefix · up, out
  Spatial prefix meaning upward and outward motion; here used metaphorically for drawing out or extracting information.
• dā — root · put, place
  Root √dā 'to place or put'; combined with ud- gives the sense of lifting and setting forth.
• na — ending · (nominalizing suffix)
  Nominal suffix that forms nouns from verbal roots, creating uddāna 'extraction' or 'summary' as a noun.

Analysis. tassa (genitive singular of 'that', referring to a preceding topic) + uddāna (drawing up, extraction). The compound tassuddāna literally 'drawing-up of that' denotes the didactic practice of extracting and summarizing key terms from a section of teaching.

Etymology. uddāna from ud (up, out) + √dā (put, place): 'drawing up and out', i.e. extracting. Cognate with English 'out', German 'aus'. The prefix ud- shows the concrete image of pulling something up and away from the ground—hence 'extraction' or 'summary' in the pedagogical sense.

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

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