Kushala, Kusala, Kuśala, Kuṣala: 44 definitions

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The Sanskrit terms Kuśala and Kuṣala can be transliterated into English as Kusala or Kushala, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Kushal.

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

Kuśala (कुशल):—[The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa] kuśala gaṇa sidhmādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 2, 97.] in comp. mit kṛta u.s.w. gaṇa śreṇyādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 1, 59.] mit kumāra gaṇa śramaṇādi zu [70.]

1) adj. f. ā a) sich in gutem Zustande —, in der gehörigen Ordnung befindend, vollkommen entsprechend: na dveṣṭyakuśalaṃ karma kuśale nānuṣajjate [Bhagavadgītā 18, 10.] kuśalānyāśu sidhyanti netarāṇi kṛtāni yat [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 18, 7.] kuśalākuśalā miśrāḥ karmaṇāṃ gatayaḥ [2, 10, 40.] kuśalena samādhinā [4, 24, 7.] kuśalaṃ man für entsprechend halten, billigen: tadye jyāyāṃso na te kuśalaṃ menire [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 7, 18.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 15, 26, 4. 8.] kuśalam adv. auf die gehörige Weise, recte: kuśalamagnīnparicacārīt [Chāndogyopaniṣad 4, 10, 2.] bewahrt im comp. vor einem adj. seinen Ton gaṇa vispaṣṭādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 2, 24.] kuśalīkar in die gehörige Ordnung bringen: alaṃkṛtaṃ kumāraṃ kuśalīkṛtaśirasam [ĀŚV. GṚHY. 1, 19. 17.] kuśalīkārayanti (das Haupthaar) yathāgotrakulakalpam [GOBH. 2, 9, 20. 10, 4.] — b) dem es wohlgeht, gesund: kuśalaste pitā [Nalopākhyāna] [?(BOPP) 16, 29] (v. l. kuśalī). kuśalāste naravyāghra yeṣāṃ kuśalamicchasi [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 70, 12.] Vgl. kuśalin . — c) einer Sache gewachsen, bewandert, geschickt, erfahren [Amarakoṣa 3, 1, 4.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 343.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 636. fg.] [Medinīkoṣa l. 76.] ete kuśalā manyamānāḥ [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 11, 4, 2, 1. 4. 13.] āścaryo vaktā kuśalo sya labdhāścaryo jñātā kuśalānuśiṣṭaḥ [Kaṭhopaniṣad 2, 7.] [Nalopākhyāna 19. 17. 18.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 7, 18.] etenāpi hi paṇyena kuśalo dhanamarjayet [Kathāsaritsāgara 6, 36.] kuśalabuddhi adj. [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 349.] Die Ergänzung α) im loc. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 3, 40.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 5, 29.] udgīthe [Chāndogyopaniṣad 1, 8, 1.] sthāne yuddhe ca [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 7, 190.] śulkasthāneṣu [8, 398.] daṇḍanītyām [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 312.] śīghrayāneṣu [Nalopākhyāna 18, 6.] gītasāmasu [Indralokāgamana 2, 28.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 7, 7. 9. 8.] daṇḍakāraṇye [2, 84, 12.] [Pañcatantra V, 33.] kuśalo mṛgavye (śvā) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1281.] — β) im gen. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 3, 40.] kaṭakaraṇasya [Scholiast] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 5, 29.] dravyāṇāṃ kuśalāḥ [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 181.] — γ) im comp. vorangehend gaṇa śauṇḍādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 1, 40.] samudrayāna [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 157.] vaitāna [11, 37.] sarvārtha [Nalopākhyāna 8, 4.] aśva [?22, 12. Rāmāyaṇa 1, 9, 8. 3, 59, 25. 4, 2, 21. Pañcatantra I, 421. Hitopadeśa I, 193. Raghuvaṃśa 3, 12. Brahmapurāṇa in Lassen’s Anthologie 51, 16. 55, 16.] (śvā) mṛgayākuśalaḥ [Amarakoṣa 2, 10, 23.] — δ) im infinit.: vyākhyātuṃ kuśalāḥ kecidgranthāndhārayituṃ pare [Mahābhārata 1, 53.] janma cāprativīryasya kuśalo hyasi bhāṣitum [3, 10426. 14, 2846.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 75, 41.] —

2) m. a) pl. Nomen proprium eines Volkes [Mahābhārata 6, 359.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 190.] Bewohner von Kuśadvīpa [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 20, 16.] — b) ein Beiname Śiva’s [Śivanāmasahasra] — c) Nomen proprium eines Fürsten [Viṣṇupurāṇa 470,] [Nalopākhyāna 23.] eines Grammatikers [Colebrooke II, 49.] —

3) f. kuśalā Nomen proprium (?) eines Frauenzimmers gaṇa bāhvādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 96.] —

4) f. kuśalī Name zweier Pflanzen: a) = aśmantaka . — b) = kṣudrāmlikā [Vaidyaka im Śabdakalpadruma] —

5) n. die gehörige Ordnung, ein guter, gedeihlicher Zustand, Wohlfahrt, Wohlergehen, Wohlbefinden [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 636.] [Medinīkoṣa l. 76.] sarpirmiśraṃ syātkuśalena ordnungsgemäss [GOBH. 1, 5, 30.] puṇye nakṣatre dārāṃkurvīta lakṣaṇapraśastāṃkuśalena [2, 1, 2.] kuśalaśṛtamiva sthālīpākaṃ śrapayet [1, 7, 7.] dharmānna pramaditavyam . kuśalānna ([]: kuśalāt = ātmarakṣārthātkarmaṇaḥ) pramaditavyam [TAITT. Upakośā 1, 11, 1.] aho mamopari vidheḥ saṃrambho dāruṇo mahān . nānubadhnāti kuśalam [Nalopākhyāna] [?(BOPP) 13, 31.] aho etāvadevāsmadbhūpateḥ kuśalaṃ durgaṃ ca [Pañcatantra 192, 23.] kaccidbhagavatāmiha . tapasyagniṣu kuśalaṃ svadharmacaraṇeṣu ca .. [Nalopākhyāna 12, 50. 51.] [Viśvāmitra’s Kampf 2, 5. 9. 10.] [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 207.] kaccitte kuśalam [Viśvāmitra’s Kampf 2, 7.] kaccinna kuśalaṃ tava [Mahābhārata 13, 1884. fg.] kuśalaṃ te fragend und wünschend (die Person auch im dat. nach [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 3, 73]) [Duaupadīpramātha 4, 10.] [Hitopadeśa 17, 17. 38, 13.] kā vārtā atidurbalo si kuśalaṃ prīto smi te darśanāt [Pañcatantra I, 283. II, 63.] āvayoḥ kuśalaṃ deva sarvatragatam [Nalopākhyāna 2, 15.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 63, 12.] [Hitopadeśa 39, 10.] [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 184.] brāhmaṇaṃ kuśalaṃ pṛcchetkṣattrabandhumanāmayam [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 127.] [Nalopākhyāna 18, 7. 22, 2.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 73, 2. 3, 2, 20.] kuśalaṃ kauśiko rājñaḥ paryapṛcchat [1, 20, 11.] [Viśvāmitra’s Kampf 2, 4.] [Meghadūta 99.] tataḥ kuśalamavyayam . papracchānāmayaṃ cāpi tayoḥ sarvagatam [Nalopākhyāna 2, 14.] papraccha kuśalaṃ rājye (tam) [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 58.] kuśalānāmayaṃ prītaḥ papraccha vasudhādhipam [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 20, 10. 68, 4. 3, 4, 40.] kuśalapraśna m. eine Erkundigung nach Jmdes Wohlbefinden [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 7, 10.] [Hārāvalī 133.] [Hitopadeśa 25, 17.] [Vetālapañcaviṃśati 10, 20.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 22, 14.] ākruṣṭaḥ kuśalaṃ vadet [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 6, 48.] svāgataṃ te manuṣyendra kuśalaṃ te bravīmyaham [Nalopākhyāna 22, 6.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 73, 3.] vācyastato yavīyānme kuśalaṃ vacanānmama [4, 55, 13. 14.] āsate kuśalaṃ kaccidye ca śatrujidādayaḥ [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 14, 29.] svādhīnakuśalāḥ siddhimantaḥ [Śākuntala 64, 23.] kuśalena mit Wohlbefinden d. i. heiter, wohlgemuth: prasthitaṃ daṇḍakāraṇyaṃ paśya tvaṃ kuśalena mām spricht Rāma zum trauernden Vater [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 34, 22] ([Gorresio]: con occhio benevolo). Vgl. akuśala, wo die adj. Bed. jetzt durch folgendes Beispiel belegt werden kann: na hi tvasminkule jāto gacchatyakuśalāṃ gatim [Daśaratha’s Tod 2, 44.] Nach den Lexicographen bedeutet kuśala n. a) kṣema Wohlfahrt [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 4, 4. 3, 4, 26, 206.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 86.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 636.] [Medinīkoṣa l. 76.] — b) puṇya Tugend. — c) paryāpti das Gewachsensein [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 26, 206.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] — Nach dem gaṇa sidhmādi soll kuśala von kuśa stammen; [Sāhityadarpana 11, 11] wird eine Etymologie kuśaṃ lāti angeführt.

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Kuṣala (कुषल):—schlechte Schreibart für kuśala [Bharata] zu [Amarakoṣa im Śabdakalpadruma]

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Kusala (कुसल):—schlechte Schreibart für kuśala [Scholiast] zu [Amarakoṣa] [Śabdakalpadruma]

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Kuśala (कुशल):—

1) a) erspriesslich [Spr. 1484.] —

2) c) Grammatiker [Oxforder Handschriften 176,a,4.] —

5) c) Geschicklichkeit: kulakuśalaśīlavikala [Spr. 3259.]

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

Kuśala (कुशल):——

1) Adj. (f. ā) — a) in gutem Zustande — , in der gehörigen Ordnung sich befinden , vollkommen entsprechend. kuśalaṃ man so v.a. billigen. kuśalam Adv. auf die gehörige Weise , recte. — b) erspriesslich [Indische sprüche 3476.] — c) dem es wohlgeht , gesund. kuśalam-ās sich wohl befinde [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1,14,29.] — d) einer Sache gewachsen , bewandert , geschickt , erfahren ; die Ergänzung im Loc. , Gen. , Infin. oder im .Comp. ([Gautama's Dharmaśāstra 8,6]) vorangehend. —

2) m. — a) Ben. Śiva's. — b) Pl. Bez. der Brahmanen in Kuśadvīpa. — c) Nomen proprium — α) Pl. eines Volkes. kosala v.l. — β) verschiedener Personen [Wilson's Uebersetzung des Viṣṇupurāṇa ,4,48.] —

3) *f. ā Nomen proprium eines Frauenzimmers. —

4) f. kuśalī Oxalis corniculata und eine andere Art Sauerampfer. —

5) n. — a) ein guter Zustand , die gehörige Ordnung. kuśalena und kuśala ordnungsgemäss. — b) Wohlfahrt , Wohlergehen , Wohlbefinden [Gautama's Dharmaśāstra 5,41.] [Āpastamba’s Dharmasūtra] kuśalaṃ te geht es dir wohl? und es gehe dir wohl kuśalaṃ brū , vac oder vad Jmd «es ergehe dir wohl» zurufen. — c) Wohlwollen [Rāmāyaṇa 2,34,22.] — d) Geschicklichkeit , Erfahrenheit. — e) Nomen proprium eines von einem Kuśala beherrschten Varṣa [Wilson's Uebersetzung des Viṣṇupurāṇa ,4,48.]

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Kuśāla (कुशाल):—m. Nomen proprium eines Fürsten [VP.².,4,189.]

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