Abhijnana, Abhijñāna: 15 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchAbhijñāna (अभिज्ञान):—(wie eben) n.
1) das Wiedererkennen: rāmanāmāṅkitaṃ cedaṃ pragṛhāṇāṅgurīyakam . tadabhijñānahetorhi dattaṃ tena mahātmanā [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 32, 44.] tayā ca tasya prāptasya tatrābhijñānasiddhaye . putrakasya prasuptasya nyastaṃ vāsasyalaktakam (so ist zu lesen für vāsasya la) .. [Kathāsaritsāgara 3, 71.] —
2) das Gedenken, Erinnerung: pūrvavṛttamabhijñānaṃ bhūyaḥ saṃpratyabhāṣata [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 68, 1.] etāvadāryā abhijñānamuvāca [43.] —
3) Kenntniss: lakṣaṇaṃ tvanabhijñānāṃ tadabhijñānasūcakam [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 26, 219.] —
4) woran man Jmd oder Etwas erkennt, wobei man sich Jmdes oder Etwas erinnert, Erkennungszeichen, Erinnerungsmahl: rāmasya dadarśāśramameyuṣaḥ . kṛtaṃ vṛkṣeṣvabhijñānaṃ kuśacīraiḥ kvacitkvacit .. [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 100, 6.] upapannairabhijñānairdūtaṃ tamavagacchata [5, 33, 14. 6, 8, 3.] cihnabhūtaṃ tvabhijñānaṃ tvamaṅge kartumarhasi . yena tvāmabhijānīyāṃ dvandvayuddhamupāgatam .. [4, 12, 44.] tasyai bharturabhijñānamaṅgulīyaṃ dadau [Raghuvaṃśa 12, 62.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 72. 6, 110, 51.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 3, 72.] ityuktā śaktidevena sābhijñānam [?26, 102. Meghadūta 111. zu 112, v. l.] Zeichen [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 106.] Zeichen, Beweis für Etwas mit prati oder mit dem loc.: paryāptaṃ cāpyabhijñānamiha svādhīnatāṃ prati . yat u. s. w. [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 81, 24.] paryāptaṃ cāpyabhijñānaṃ dharmasya parirakṣaṇe . yat u. s. w. [86, 7.]
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Abhijñāna (अभिज्ञान):—
1) füge das Erkennen (Jmdes) und tvadabhijñānacihna [Daśakumāracarita] in [Benfey’ Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken 192, 11] hinzu. —
4) [Daśakumāracarita] in [Benfey’ Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken 196, 15.] dāna [Oxforder Handschriften 138,a, No. 270.] maṇi [344,b,4.] —
5) = śakuntalābhijñāna [Sāhityadarpana 138, 13.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungAbhijñāna (अभिज्ञान):—n. —
1) das Erkennen , Wiedererkennen Jmdes. —
2) Kenntniss. —
3) Erkennungszeichen , Erkennungsmahl. —
4) Zeichen , Beweis für ( prati oder Loc.). —
5) Erinnerungen [Rāmāyaṇa 5,68,1,4.] —
6) = abhijñānaśakuntala.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Starts with: Abhijnanamarana, Abhijnanamudra, Abhijnanapatra, Abhijnanapattra, Abhijnanaratnavali, Abhijnanashakuntala, Abhijnanashakuntalam.
Ends with: Apratyabhijnana, Pratyabhijnana, Sabhijnana, Vishayapratyabhijnana.
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