Arhant: 5 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchArhant (अर्हन्त्):—(part. praes. von arh)
1) adj. a) verdienend, Ansprüche auf Etwas (acc.) habend [Ṛgveda 1, 94, 1. 2, 3, 3. 5, 7, 2.] statt des verb. fin. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 2, 133.] arhanniha bhavānvidyām [Scholiast] — b) vermögend, dürfend [Ṛgveda 2, 3, 1. 5, 52, 5. 10, 2, 2. 99, 7.] — c) würdig, subst. ein Würdiger [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 157.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 84.] tadyathaivādo manuṣyarāja āgate nyasminvārhatyukṣāṇaṃ vā vehataṃ vā kṣadante [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 1, 15.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 3, 4, 1, 3. 6.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 51.] [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 55. 5, 11.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 6, 56.] [Śākuntala 112.] arhattama überaus ehrwürdig [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 128.] anarhant [Duaupadīpramātha 6, 20.] — d) gelobt (stuta) [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) m. a) ein Buddha [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 10.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 81.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 84.] — b) die höchste Würde in der buddh. Hierarchie (kṣapaṇaka) [Medinīkoṣa t. 84.] [Burnouf 294.] [Lot. de Lassen’s Anthologie b. l. 287.] — c) ein Arhant oder Obergott bei den Jaina [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 24. fgg.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 157.] devo rhan (v. l. arhatāṃ devaḥ) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 58, 45] in [Weber’s Verzeichniss 246]; vgl. auch [No. 964.]
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Arhant (अर्हन्त्):—
1) c) arhattama [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 3, 5.] —
2) a) [Oxforder Handschriften 264,b,21.]
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Arhant (अर्हन्त्):—
2) c) [Hemacandra] [Yogaśāstra 1, 1. 2, 4. 3, 148.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungArhant (अर्हन्त्):——
1) Adj. — a) verdienend , Ansprüche auf Etwas (Acc.) habend. — b) vermögend , dürfend. — c) würdig , ein Würdiger. arhattama Superl. — d) *gepriesen. —
2) m. — a) ein Buddha. — b) Bez. der höchsten Würde in der buddh. Hierarchie. — c) Obergott bei den Jaina.
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: Arhamtyadharma, Arhamtyakriye, Arhamtyalakshmi, Arhanta, Arhanti, Arhantika, Arhantya.
Ends with: Anarhant, Svarhant.
Full-text (+194): Paragata, Ashaiksha, Arhattva, Kshinashtakarman, Jinottama, Bodhida, Dattatirthakrit, Dharmashreshthin, Jineshvara, Tirthankara, Devadhideva, Trikalavid, Pottila, Pedhala, Devarya, Nirvanin, Anantajit, Astaga, Arhanti, Yakshesh.
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