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'''Anupādaka''' is a word used in the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature derived from the [[Sanskrit]] ''anupapādaka'', "parentless" or "having no material parent",<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=DI&beginning=0+&tinput=anupapAdaka&trans=Translate&direction=AU.# Anupapādaka] at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary.</ref> or ''upapāduka'', "self-produced".<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=DI&beginning=0+&tinput=upapAduka&trans=Translate&direction=AU# Upapāduka] at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary.</ref> [[H. P. Blavatsky]] applied this term to the hierarchy of the [[Dhyāni-Buddhas]]:
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<blockquote>“The one merged with the absolute,” can have no parents since he is Self-existent, and one with the Universal Spirit (Svayambhu), the Svâbhâvat in the highest aspect.  The mystery in the hierarchy of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal Spirit-Soul, and the lower rung the Mânushi-Buddha; and even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka in a latent state.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 52.</ref></blockquote>
 
== Misspelling of the original term ==
 
According to [[David Reigle]]'s research, the term ''anupādaka'' used by [[H. P. Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] appears in Emil Schlagintweit's ''Buddhism in Tibet'' published in 1863. This was miscopied by her from the ''anupapādaka'' present in Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary, which was taken from Brian H. Hodgson, the first Westerner to gain access to [[Sanskrit]] [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] texts, during his residency in Nepal. In its turn, ''anupapādaka'' seems to be a misspelling from the original ''aupapāduka'' or ''upapāduka''.<ref>[http://www.easterntradition.org/book%20of%20dzyan%20research%20report%201-technical%20terms%20in%20stanza%201.pdf# ''Technical Terms in Stanza I'' by David Reigle, 7-9]</ref>
 
== Notes ==
 
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==Further reading==
 
*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Anup%C4%81daka# Anupādaka] at Theosopedia
 
*[http://www.easterntradition.org/book%20of%20dzyan%20research%20report%201-technical%20terms%20in%20stanza%201.pdf# Technical Terms in Stanza I by David Reigle] at Eastern Tradition Research Institute
 
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