virāgā

virāga

masc nom pl of virāga (noun); masc instr sg of virāga (noun); masc abl sg of virāga (noun); masc voc sg of virāga (noun); …

fading of desire (for); dispassion (towards); detachment (from); indifference (to)
fading; disappearance; destruction (of); lit. de-colouring

Built from

vi- — prefix · apart, asunder
Marks separation and clarity; the mind seeing things as distinct and impermanent.
rāga — root · passion, desire, color
From √rañj 'to be dyed, colored'; passion as the mind's coloring. The fading of rāga is the key meditative achievement.

Analysis. vi- (apart) + rāga (passion, desire): the pulling-apart or dissolution of passion.

Etymology. From vi- (asunder, apart—the prefix that marks separation and clarity) + rāga (passion, colour, from √rañj 'to be coloured, dyed'). The root rāga is cognate with Latin regnare and Sanskrit rājati 'shines, rules', but in Pali rāga is passion—desire as the coloring or dyeing of the mind. Virāga is thus the un-dyeing, the clearing away of that coloring: dispassion in the technical sense of the Four Noble Truths.

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

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