upacāra: 'moment of access'; s. javana.

Buddhist Dictionary, Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines, by NYANATILOKA MAHATHERA

Upacāra [fr. upa + car] -- 1. approach, access Vin ii.120, 152; iv.304; J i.83, 172; DhsA 328 (phal˚). -- 2. habit, practice, conduct Vin ii.20 (dassan˚); SnA 140 (id.); J iii.280. -- 3. way, means application, use of (esp. of spells etc.) J iii.280 (mantassa); vi.180; Miln 153, 154 (dur˚ an evil spell); VvA 127 (gram. t.t. kāraṇ˚). -- 4. entrance, access, i. e. immediate vicinity or neighbourhood of ( -- ˚) J iv.182 (nagar˚); usually as gām˚ Vin i.109; iii.46; iv.230; KhA 77; SnA 83, 179. -- 5. attention, attendance Vin iv.272; J vi.180; Miln 154. -- 6. civility, polite behaviour J ii.56; vi.102. -- 7. On upacāra as philos, t.t. and its relation to appanā see Dhs trsln. 53, 54; Cpd. 55; Mystic p. xi. Thus used of samādhi (neighbourhood -- , or access -- concentration, distinguishing it from appanā -- samādhi) at Vism 85, 126, 144 and passim.

Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,

施設

upa-cārá m. approach, service, attendance Hcat. i, 111, 2 seqq

• act of civility, obliging or polite behaviour, reverence ŚBr. MBh. Śak. &c. (64 Upacāras are enumerated in the Tantra-sāra, quoted by T.)

• proceeding, practice

• behaviour, conduct

• mode of proceeding towards (gen.), treatment ŚBr. MBh. Āp. Mn. &c

• attendance on a patient, medical practice, physicking Suśr. Pañcat. Vikr

• a ceremony Kum. vii, 86

• present, offering, bribe

• solicitation, request L

• ornament, decoration Kum. Ragh. vii, 4

• a favourable circumstance Sāh. 300

• usage, custom or manner of speech Nyāyad

• a figurative or metaphorical [removed]upacārāt ind. metaphorically), metaphor, figurative application Sāh. Sarvad. Comm. on Śiś. &c

• pretence, pretext L

• a kind of Sandhi (substitution of s and ṣ in place of Visarga) Kāś. on Pāṇ. 8-3, 48

• N. of a Pariśishṭa of the Sāma-veda

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William

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[translation-san] {MV} prajñapta

[translation-san] {MV} prajñapti

[translation-san] {LCh} upacāra

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} impute; imputed; designate; designated

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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[translation-san] {LCh,C,MSA,MV} prajñapti

[translation-san] {C.MV} prajñapta

[translation-san] {N} parikalpita

[translation-san] {LCH} upacāra

[translation-san] {C} prakṣipta = prajñaptam = adhyāropitaṃ saṃvṛti-mātram

[translation-san] prajñaptir

[translation-eng] {Hopkins} imputed; imputation; designated; designation; impute; designate; hang; imputed [phenomena]

[translation-eng] {C} concept; conception; nominal concept/existence; conceptual entity; nominal entity; intimation; conceptual existence; spread; conceived; arranged; placed into; added on; put/thrown into; plunged into

Jeffrey Hopkins' Tibetan-Sanskrit-English Dictionary