One of twenty or twenty-four so-called secondary mental defilements/afflictions (upakleśa), the basis of which seems to be feelings of jealousy and anger. Edgerton translates pradāsa as “envious rivalry” (BSHD, s.v. “pradāsa”). In Pāli commentaries it is defined as “yugaggāha [imperiousness], grasping after preëminence for oneself over others, […] primarily, concealment of the good qualities of others, jealous disparagement, nasty disposition, ill-will” (BHSD, s.v. “mrakṣa”).