Nimitta: 40 definitions

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

Nimitta (निमित्त):—n.

1) Ziel (nach dem geschossen wird) [Halāyudha 2, 313.] calaṃ nimittaṃ viprarṣe sadā sūryasya gacchataḥ [Mahābhārata 13, 4632.] vedhin das Ziel treffend [5, 3480. 6, 1658.] —

2) Zeichen, Anzeichen, Vorzeichen, Omen [Amarakoṣa.3,4,14,79.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.3,3,163.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha.3,270.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 118.] [Oxforder Handschriften 184,b,6.] nimittaṃ yattvayā dṛṣṭaṃ bāhuke daivamānuṣam [Mahābhārata 3, 2925. 2928.] na cotpātanimittābhyām (bhikṣāṃ lipseta) [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 6, 50.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 203. 3, 171.] dadarśa viparītāni nimittāni [Mahābhārata 16, 1.] [Bhagavadgītā 1, 31.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 51, 38.] [Suśruta 1, 30, 5. 104, 17.] jña [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 86.] nimittaṃ sūcayan [Śākuntala.8,17. 63,11. 101,14.] [Vikramorvaśī.7,4.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S.5,16. 21,35. 36. 27,c,7. 42] [?(43),10. 30. 47,78. 48,8. 50,7. 52,108. 53,6. 57,1. morgenländischen Gesellschaft 14,569,12. Bhāgavatapurāṇa.1,14,2. 5.] Vgl. durnimitta . —

3) Veranlassung, Grund, Ursache, das Bestimmende [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 14, 79. 28, 218.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1513.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 2, 11. 7, 14. 25, 4, 45.] [ŚVETĀŚV. Upakośā 1, 4.] rephanimittasaṃśayāt [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 11, 5.] akṣarāṇyeva sarvatra nimittaṃ balavattaram [17, 13.] vairāgyeṇa nimittena prakṛtilayaḥ [Sânkhya Philosophy 8.] [Jaimini 1, 3.] [Kapila 3, 67. 68.] [SĀṂKHYAK. 42.] [Mahābhārata 1, 2178. 5, 1036. 13, 1458.] [Śākuntala 44. 189.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 92, 5.] [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 255.] [Pañcatantra II, 35.] [Hitopadeśa I, 156.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 30, 25.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 84.] tasya tyāge nimittaṃ kim [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8, 20, 6.] saptamī [Kāśikīvṛtti] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 1, 57.] dhātvaṃśalopanimitta ārdhadhātuke pare [Scholiast] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 1, 4.] nāmartyo vidyate martyo nimittāyurbhaviṣyati so v. a. sein Leben soll so lange dauern als dasjenige besteht, wonach es bestimmt wird, [Mahābhārata 3, 10738.] yatheme parvatāḥ śaśvattiṣṭhanti surasattamāḥ . akṣayāstannimittaṃ (so lange dauernd als die Berge) me sutasyāyurbhaviṣyati [10739.] nimittamasya (d. i. die Berge) mahiṣairbhedayāmāsa [17043. fg.] nimitta causa efficiens neben upādāna causa materialis [Vedānta lecture No. 40.] mayaiva te nihatāḥ pūrvameva nimittamātraṃ (blosses Werkzeug) bhava [Bhagavadgītā 11, 33.] dravatvaṃ syandane heturnimittaṃ saṃgrahe tu tat [Bhāṣāpariccheda 155.] Alle obliquen Casus adverbialisch in der Bed. wegen gebraucht [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 3, 23, Vārttika von Kātyāyana.] kanyānimittaṃ viprarṣe tatrāsīdutsavo mahān [Mahābhārata 5, 6069.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 48, 28. 58, 24.] [Suśruta 1, 2, 10.] [SĀṂKHYAK. 57.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 24, 10.] strīnimittena [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 90, 12 (99, 15 Gorresio).] vanavāsanimittāya bhartāramidamabravīt [30, 1.] Am Ende eines adj. comp. dieses zur Veranlassung —, zum Grunde habend, veranlasst —, hervorgerufen durch [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 4, 6, 3.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 10, 111. 11 80.] viṣanimittā (pīḍā) [Nalopākhyāna 14, 19.] tannimittābhiḥ kathābhiḥ [Daśaratha’s Tod 2, 5.] [Suśruta 1, 4, 9. 45, 1. 254, 17. 2, 1, 5.] [Śākuntala 95, 14.] [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [?S. 76. Scholiast zu Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 1, 5.] animittanimittena dharmeṇa durch keine besondere Ursache hervorgerufen, uneigennützig [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 15, 14.] Vgl. a . —

4) falsche Lesart für nimiṣa [Rgva tch’er rol pa 384.] — Nach [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] hat das Wort noch die Bedeutungen āgantu, deha, ādeśa und parvan, welche weder [WILSON] noch [Śabdakalpadruma] kennen. — Vgl. naimitta, naimittika .

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

Nimitta (निमित्त):—n. (adj. Comp. f. ā) —

1) Ziel (nach dem geschossen wird). —

2) Zeichen , Anzeichen , Wahrzeichen , Vorzeichen , Omen.

3) Veranlassung , Grund , Ursache , das Bestimmende , causa efficiens , Werkzeug. ttaṃ yā die Veranlassung sein , die Schuld tragen [Kād. (1872) 214,3.] Alle obliquen Casus (Abl. , Gen. und Loc. nicht zu belegen) werden adverbialisch in der Bed. wegen gebraucht. Am Ende eines Comp. dieses zur Veranlassung , zum Grunde habend , veranlasst — , hervorgerufen — , bewirkt durch.

4) * = āgantu , deha , ādeśa und parvan.

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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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