ādāna

taking up, getting, grasping, seizing; fig. appropriating clinging to the world, seizing on (worldly objects).

  1. (lit.) taking (food), pasturing MN.iii.133; Ja.v.371 (& ˚esana)
  2. getting, acquiring, taking, seizing SN.ii.94; AN.iv.400 (daṇḍ˚); Pv-a.27 (phal˚); esp. freq in adinn˚; seizing what is not given, i.e. theft: see under adinna
  3. (fig.) attachment, clinging AN.v.233, AN.v.253 (˚paṭinissagga); Dhp.89 (id.; cp. Dhp-a.ii.163); Snp.1103 (˚taṇhā), Snp.1104 (˚satta); Mnd.98 (˚gantha); Cnd.123, Cnd.124 -an˚; free from attachment SN.i.236 (sādānesu anādāno “not laying hold mong them that grip” trsl.); AN.ii.10; Iti.109; Ja.iv.354; Mil.342; Dhp-a.iv.70 (= khandhādisu niggahaṇo). Cp. upa˚, pari˚.

ād + āna, or directly from ā + , base 1 of dadāti