A bahuvrīhi epithet of the third quarter (tṛtīya pāda) of the self in the Māṇḍūkya scheme, meaning "having deep sleep (suṣupta) as its place/locus (sthāna)." In the supplied attestations it characterizes the prājña — the self in dreamless sleep, in which one neither desires any object nor sees any dream. There, the self is described as unified (ekībhūta), a dense mass of cognition (prajñānaghana), made of bliss (ānandamaya), an enjoyer of bliss (ānandabhuk), with consciousness as its gateway (cetomukha). In the syllabic correlation, the suṣuptasthāna prājña is identified with the sound "m" (makāra), the third measure (mātrā) of Om, glossed through miti/apīti ("measure" or "merging/dissolution").
Senses
The reading surface. A later ingestion attaches a locus to a settled sense, or proposes a new one (dashed) for human triage — it never rewrites settled prose.
1 · Epithet of the third pāda of the self: that which has dreamless deep sleep as its locus/co…settledadded v1
Epithet of the third pāda of the self: that which has dreamless deep sleep as its locus/condition — the state in which one desires no object and sees no dream, characterized as the prājña who is unified, a mass of cognition, made of bliss, an enjoyer of bliss, having consciousness as its gateway.
upaniṣadic
mandukya.upanisad:5mandukya.sankarabhasya:5
2 · In the syllabic correlation of the self with Om: the suṣuptasthāna prājña identified with …settledadded v1
In the syllabic correlation of the self with Om: the suṣuptasthāna prājña identified with the sound 'm' (makāra), the third measure (mātrā), explained via miti ('measure') or apīti ('merging/dissolution'), since this self measures (minoti) all and is that into which all merges (apīti).
upaniṣadic
mandukya.upanisad:11mandukya.sankarabhasya:11
Attestation concordance — tier 2, every locus
Append-only. Grows by locus as texts arrive; stays one collapsed table so the senses remain the reading surface.
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Locus
Witness
Tradition
Stratum
Snippet
mandukya.upanisad:5
Māṇḍūkya (mūla)
upaniṣadic
mula
yatra supto na kañcana kāmaṃ kāmayate na kañcana svapnaṃ paśyati tat suṣuptam | suṣuptasthāna ekībhūtaḥ prajñānaghana evāndamayo hy ānandabhukcetomukh
mandukya.upanisad:11
Māṇḍūkya (mūla)
upaniṣadic
mula
suṣuptasthānaḥ prājño makāraḥ tṛtīyā mātrā miter apīter vā | minoti ha vā idaṃ sarvam apītiś ca bhavati ya evaṃ veda
mandukya.sankarabhasya:5
Śaṅkara (bhāṣya)
advaita-vedānta
bhasya
yatra yasmin sthāne kāle vā supto na kañcana svapnaṃ paśyati na kañcana kāmaṃ kāmayate / na hi suṣupte pūrvayor ivānyathāgrahaṇalakṣaṇaṃ svapnadarśana
v1Māṇḍūkya mūla + Gauḍapāda kārikā — +2 loci 2 sense(s) drafted from 2 loci.
v2Śaṅkara bhāṣya — +2 loci · 2 routed to existing Attestation :5 glosses suṣuptasthāna as the third pāda characterized by dreamless sleep, no dream-seeing and no desire — matching s1's definition of the third quarter whose locus is dreamless deep sleep. Attestation :11 explicitly correlates suṣuptasthāna prājña with the makāra (third mātrā) of Om and explains it via measure (miti/māna) and dissolution (pralaya), matching s2's syllabic correlation. Both witnessed by Śaṅkara's bhāṣya; no genuinely new sense required.
Caveats
The corpus supplied here consists solely of the Māṇḍūkya mūla text; no commentary loci (Gauḍapāda or Śaṅkara) were supplied, so no commentary positions can be attributed.
The two glosses of the third measure (miter apīter vā — 'from measure or from merging') appear at locus 11 as alternatives within the mūla itself; this is a stated double etymology rather than an interpretive split between witnesses.
The 'grounded glosses' provided as leads (e.g. associating the epithet specifically with prājña) are consistent with the attestations, but the term itself is strictly the locative compound 'having deep sleep as its place' applied to the third pāda/prājña.