Samkhya, Sāṅkhya, Saṃkhyā, Sāṃkhya, Saṅkhyā, Sankhya, Shankhya, Saṃkhya: 39 definitions

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Śāṅkhya (शाङ्ख्य):—(von śaṅkha)

1) adj. a) aus Muscheln bereitet [Suśruta 2, 324, 17.] — b) aus Śaṅkha gebürtig gaṇa śaṇḍikādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 92.] —

2) m. patron. von śaṅkha gaṇa gargādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 105.]

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Saṃkhya (संख्य):—(von khyā mit sam)

1) adj. am Ende eines comp. zählend, überzählend [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 2, 7.] go, paśu Schol. zu d. St. und zu [6, 2, 66.] —

2) m. Nomen proprium eines Mannes [Weber’s Indische Studien 2, 292.] —

3) f. ā a) Zählung: hatānāṃ yudhi vīrāṇām saṃkhyā na śakyate kartum [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 73, 11.] saṃkhyāmivaiṣāṃ bhramaraścakāra [Raghuvaṃśa 16, 47.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 699.] kecidetāṃ mṛṣā teṣāṃ kālasaṃkhyāṃ pracakrire [1, 49.] mūḍhaiḥ pāṣāṇakhaṇḍeṣu ratnasaṃkhyā vidhīyate [Spr. (II) 4186.] tathā tavāpi puṇyasya saṃkhyā naivopapadyate [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 15, 72.] lekhyasaṃkhyāvid so v. a. Arithmetik [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 80, 2.] [Vyutpatti oder Mahāvyutpatti 119. fg.] am Ende eines adj. comp.: labdhādhipatyasaṃkhyānāṃ bhūbhujām die zu denen gezählt werden (gehören), die regiert haben, [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 50.] — b) Zahl, Anzahl [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 323.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 872.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 386. fg.] [Medinīkoṣa y. 59.] [Halāyudha 5, 50.] [Yāska’s Nirukta 3, 10. 4, 26.] ahnāṃ saṃkhyāḥ saṃkhyātāḥ [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 10, 1, 16.] pūraṇa [17.] [GṚHY. 3, 4, 1.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 7, 3, 1, 43.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 8, 20. 15, 8, 21. 20, 7, 1.] etena nyāyena tāṃ tāṃ saṃkhyāṃ pūrayati [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 13, 15, 11.] [LĀṬY. 6, 10, 24. 8, 1, 2.] [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 11, 11. 12, 9.] na doṣāṇām anto gamyaḥ saṃkhyayā [14, 28.] [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 1, 49.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 31. 97.] [KAṆ. 1, 1, 6. 2, 2, 37.] [Yogasūtra 2, 50.] [TARKAS. 15.] [Bhāṣāpariccheda 110.] [Suśruta 1, 336, 19.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 53, 26. 65. 68, 105. 77, 21.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 172.] nākāraṇaruṣāṃ saṃkhyā so v. a. sind unzählig [Spr. (II) 3537.] teṣāṃ saṃkhyā na vidyate [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 37, 28.] [Spr. (II) 6619.] na kaścidavatārāṇāṃ saṃkhyāṃ jānāti te bhuvi [WEBER, KṚṢṆAJ. 291.] saṃkhyayā parivarjitāḥ unzählig [Pañcatantra II, 62.] parityaktāḥ dass. ebend. (eig. 63). taṃ putriṇām samāropayadagrasaṃkhyām so v. a. ganz vornan stellen [Raghuvaṃśa 18, 29.] saṃvatsarasaṃkhya n. cop. comp. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 7, 3, 15.] grāma Anzahl [Halāyudha 2, 129.] ṣaṭka 128. sahasra [Kirātārjunīya 5, 34.] ṣaṣṭi Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 1, 1.] catuḥ zu [23, 16.] am Ende eines adj. comp. nach einem Zahlworte: sahasra [Mahābhārata 1, 3132.] śata [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 101, 4.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 11, 20.] śatārdha [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 54, 81.] daśārdha [Mahābhārata 1, 7052.] aneka [Kirātārjunīya 5, 34.] katipaya [Pañcatantra 156, 6.] — c) so v. a. nāman, śabda Zahlwort [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 16, 25.] [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 5, 15.] [Śāntanācārya’s Phiṭsūtrāṇi 2, 5.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 1, 23. 2, 1, 10. 19. 50. 52. 2, 2, 25. 5, 1, 22. 2, 47. 4, 17. 43. 6, 2, 35. 163. 3, 47. 7, 3, 15.] [Amarakoṣa 2, 9, 83. 3, 6, 3, 24. 8, 43.] Comm. zu [Prātiśākha zum Atharvaveda 4, 27.] — d) der grammatische Numerus [Scholiast] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 2, 52, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 2.] — e) Berechnung d. h. genaue Erwägung des pro und contra: doṣāṇāṃ ca guṇānāṃ ca pramāṇaṃ pravibhāgataḥ . kaṃcidarthamabhipretya sā saṃkhyetyupadhāryatām .. [Mahābhārata 12, 11934. 2, 2036.] = vicāraṇā, vicāra [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 4, 11.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1373.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] = medhā u.s.w. [Halāyudha 2, 179.] Vgl. noch [HALL] in der Einl. zu [SĀṂKHYAPR. S. 2. fgg.] — e) = ākhyā Benennung, Name: dvāpara [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 74, 23. 25.] am Ende eines adj. comp. 24. — f) eine best. hohe Zahl bei den Buddhisten Mél. asiat. [4, 641.] —

4) n. Schlacht, Kampf [Amarakoṣa 2, 8, 2, 72.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 796.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha 2, 298.] nur im loc. saṃkhye [das 2, 17.] [Bhagavadgītā 1, 47.] [Mahābhārata 3, 12125. 15710. 4, 1401. 13, 6814. 14, 385.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 54, 28. 6, 72, 2.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 149.] — Vgl. asaṃkhya, go, niḥ, śata, kulasaṃkhyā, yathāsaṃkhyam, yathāsaṃkhyena (auch Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 2, 19. 10, 105]), sāṃkhya, sāṃkhyāyana .

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Sāṃkhya (सांख्य):—(von saṃkhyā)

1) a) ein Mann, der das pro und contra genau erwägt oder ein Anhänger der aufzählenden philosophischen Methode d. h. der Sāṃkhya-Lehre (Gegens. yogin, yoga) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 862.] [CŪLIKOP.] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 16] (wir lesen sāṃkhyā a). tvaṃ gatiḥ sarvasāṃkhyānāṃ yogināṃ tvaṃ parāyaṇam [Mahābhārata 3, 167. 12741. 12, 1642. 7889. 8685. 11038.] pratyakṣahetavo yogāḥ sāṃkhyāḥ śāstraviniścayāḥ [11043.] sāṃkhyānāṃ kapilo hyasi [13, 916. 1040. 1079.] [Harivaṃśa 14922. fg.] [Bhagavadgītā 3, 3. 5, 5.] sāṃkhyaiḥ saṃkhyātasaṃkhyeyaiḥ sahāsīnaṃ punarvasum [CARAKA 1, 13.] [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 335.] [Oxforder Handschriften 113], b, [46.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 13, 9. 23, 20.] [Śatruṃjayamāhātmya 2, 383.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 85. 3. 131, 19. 147, 11.] [KUSUM. 13, 5.] Viṣṇu [Mahābhārata 13, 901.] Śiva [12, 10388.] mukhya ebend. śāstra [13, 1079.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 147, 13.] darśana [153, 22.] — b) Nomen proprium eines Mannes [CARAKA 1, 1] (nach dem Comm. Beiw. von Gautama). [Bhāvaprakāśa] [?(= CARAKA) in Oxforder Handschriften 310], a, 25. yogau (so ed. Bomb.) [Mahābhārata 13, 7123.] —

2) n. die auf der genauen Erwägung des pro und contra beruhende Lehre oder die aufzählende philosophische Methode d. h. die auf Kapila zurückgeführte Sāṃkhya-Lehre (Gegens. yoga) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 13.] [Yāska’s Nirukta 14, 6.] [ŚVETĀŚV. Upakośā 6, 13.] yogavibhāgajña [Mahābhārata 2, 141.] parama [7, 8857.] yogaṃ yo veda cātmanaḥ . yaḥ sāṃkhyamātmano veda [8, 1439. 12, 11038. 11041. 13, 470. 1542. 7075.] [Bhagavadgītā 2, 39. 5, 4. 5. 13, 24. 18, 13.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 86, 10.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 3, 10. 2, 1, 6. 3, 3, 19. 7, 30. 25, 31. 10, 47, 34] (= ātmānātmaviveka Comm.). pl. [3, 29, 2.] sāṃkhyātman [Mahābhārata 12, 1642.] jñāna [1, 3132.] yogapravartin [12, 10388.] praṇetar [PAÑCAR. 4, 3, 124.] sāṃkhyācāryāḥ [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 24, 17. 33, 35.] [Sânkhya Philosophy 22.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 150, 9.] Vgl. [HALL] in der Einl. zu [SĀṂKHYAPR.] — Titel von Werken, die über diese Lehre handeln und das Wort am Anf. eines comp. enthalten: kārikā [Bibliothecae sanskritae 409. 412. fg.] kārikābhāṣya [HALL 5.] kaumudī [5. 8.] [Notices of Skt. Mss. 266.] kramadīpikā [HALL 5.] candrikā [7.] [Oxforder Handschriften 237,b, No. 569.] tattvakaumudī [No. 570. fgg.] [Notices of Skt. Mss. 266.] [Verz. d. Tüb. H. 20.] [HALL 5.] tattvapradīpa 7. tattvavibhākara [8.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 638.] tattvavilāsa [HALL 6.] taraṃga 2. pravacana und pravacanabhāṣya herausg. von [HALL] in der Bibl. ind. [SARVADARŚANAS. 154. 2.] vṛtti [HALL 8.] vṛttiprakāśa 6. vṛttisāra [1. 3.] sāra [Oxforder Handschriften 232], a, [No. 562.] sāraviveka [HALL 7.] siddhānta [Oxforder Handschriften 113] , b, [46. fg.] sūtra [HALL 1.] sūtraprakṣepikā 3. sūtravivaraṇa ebend. sūtravṛtti [Oxforder Handschriften 238,a, No. 574.] sūtravṛttisāra [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 636.] sāṃkhyārthatattvapradīpikā [HALL 7.] sāṃkhyārthasaṃkhyāyika 6. sāṃkhyālaṃkāra 3.

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Sāṃkhya (सांख्य):—adj. den grammatischen Numerus betreffend: vidhi ebend. [?2,360,b. Z. 1 ist] m. nach

1) einzuschalten.

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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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