Chaya, Chāyā: 44 definitions

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Chaya means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Chaya has 43 English definitions available.

Alternative spellings of this word include Chhaya.

Ambiguity: Although Chaya has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Caya. It further has the optional forms Chāya.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Chāya (छाय):—

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Chāya (छाय):—

2) b) [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 7, 12.] praveśanirgamacihnaiḥ [WEBER, Nakṣ. 1, 311.] [Sūryasiddhānta 12, 69.] des Sonnenuhrzeigers [3, 2. 7. 8. 10. fgg. 22. 25. 27. 35. fg. 7, 15.] der Erde [4, 6. 9. 12, 64.] — c) zu streichen, da die Stellen zu d) gehören. — d) dīpāṅkura [Spr. 2589.] śaśī vigalitacchāyaḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 124, 190.] nirmalacchāya (darpaṇa) [Spr. 5397.] — f) [Oxforder Handschriften 39,a,22.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 105,59.] — g) so v. a. Menge: kamala [Spr. 118.] — n) unter den śabdālaṃkārāḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 208,a, No. 489.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Chāya (छाय):——

1) Adj. beschattend , Schatten verleihend (Śiva). —

2) f. chāyā (adj. Comp. f. ā) — a) Schatten , schattiger Ort. etasya bhujacchāyāyām im Schatten seiner Arme , so v.a. unter seinem Schutze [157,5.] Daher = pālana bei den Lexicographen. — b) Schatten , Abbild , Widerschein. — c) Lichtschattirung , Farbenspiel , Lichtglanz , Schimmer , Farbe ; insbes. Gesichtsfarbe und die durch den Schatten hervortretenden Gesichtszüge. — d) Schönheit , Anmuth [107,26.134,30.] [Meghadūta] — e) Reihe , Menge [Indische sprüche 345.] — f) ein Wenig. salila [Veṇīsaṃhāra 91,18.] [92,7.] — g) *Bestechung. — h) *Alpdrücken. — i) das Abbild der Saṃjṅā und wie diese Gattin der Sonne und Mutter des Planeten Saturn [100,8.] als Śaktī [Hemādri’s Caturvargacintāmaṇi 1,197,2.] v.u. — k) *die Sonne. — l) ein best. Metrum. — m) eine best. rhetorische Figur. — n) ein best. Rāga [Saṃgitasārasaṃgraha 93.] — o) die einem Prākrit-Texte beigefügte Sanskrit-Uebersetzung. — p) *Beiname der Kātyāyanī. —

3) n. am Ende eines Comp. , insbes. nach einem im Gen. aufzufassenden Worte = 2)a) — b) ([Naiṣadhacarita 6,34]), — c) und d).

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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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