Upadana

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Up¤d¤na

Majjhima Nikaya I, Middle Length Sayings or Discourses.
38. Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta (Mahaata.nhaasankhaya), I.256
WP: The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving, 349
PTS: Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving, I.311

Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta The Major Discourse on Destruction of Craving (Part 2/2) Mahayamaka Vagga, Mulapannasa, Majjhima Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka From 'Twenty-five Suttas from Mulapannasa' Burma Pitaka Association (Myanmar Tipitaka Association), 1989

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward	Warren
Up¤d¤na	upkeep, going-after-getting, grasping	grasping	grasping	personalization	clinging		grasping	grasping	clinging/sustenance	clinging		Attachment
K¤macchanda	upkeep of, going after getting pleasures
DiÂÂhi	upkeep of, going after points of view, theories, working hypotheses	view	view	perspective	view	view	view	view	view	view	view
Silabbat-	upkeep of, going after rules and rituals	morals	moral habit	acts of omission letting go of behaviors rooted in self-centered emotional impulses	Virtue, Habits, Rule	Virtue, Habits, Rule	Morality	Morality	Virtue	Morality	Habit
Attav¤d-	upkeep of, going after getting self

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):**
Up¤d¤na[fr. upa + ¤ + d¤] - (lit. that (material) substratum by means of which an active process is kept alive or going), fuel, supply, provision; adj. (-) supported by, drawing one's existence from S I.69; II 85...; 2. (appld.) "drawing upon", grasping, holding on, grip, attachment; adj. (-) finding one's support by or in, clinging to, taking up, nourished by. ...They are classified as 4 up¤d¤n¤ni or four Graspings viz. k¤m-, diÂÂh-, s¨labbat-, attav¤d- or the graspings arising from sense-desires, speculation, belief in rites, belief in the soul-theory D II.58; III.230; M I.51, 66; S II.3; V 59;... - For up¤d¤na in var. connections see the foll. passages: D I.25; II.31, 33, 56; III.278; M I.66, 136 (attav¤d-) 266; S II.14, 17, 30, 85; III.10, 13 sq., 101, 135, 167, 191; IV.32, 87 sq., 102..., 390, 400 (= ta¼h¤); A IV.69; V.111 (up¤y-);... -kkhandha, usually as pa¾c- up¤d¤na-kkhandh¤ the factors of the "fivefold clinging to existence"...D II.35, 301 sq.; III.223, 286; M I.61, 144, 185; III.15, 30, 114, 295;... -kkhaya extinction or disappearance of attachment S II.54; A III.376 sq.;... -nid¤na the ground of up¤d¤na; adj. founded on or caused by attachment... -nirodha destruction of "grasping" Vin I.1 (in formula of paÂicca-samupp¤da); S II.7; III.14; A I.177. -paccaya = -nid¤na S II.5; III 94...