Samyama, Saṃyama, Saṃyāma: 27 definitions

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

Saṃyama (संयम):—(wie eben) m. = saṃyāma [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 3, 63. 6, 2, 144.] [Amarakoṣa 3, 3, 18.]

1) das Zusammenbinden, Aufbinden: kuntalasaṃvyānasaṃyamavyapadeśataḥ [Sāhityadarpana 59, 10.] kabarīmokṣasaṃyamau 19. —

2) Fesselung [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 52, 5.] —

3) das Schliessen: netra der Augen [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 77, 4.] —

4) das in - Zucht-Halten, Bändigung, Zügelung: visarge kaubere vāruṇe caiva saṃyame [Mahābhārata 2, 2578.] indriyāṇām [Spr. (II) 1113.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 12, 83.] [Spr. (II) 960] (a). indriya [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 11, 5, 7, 1.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 77, 10.] [Halāyudha 2, 242.] ṣaḍvarga [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 15, 28.] ātma [Bhagavadgītā 4, 27.] manaḥ [Spr. (II) 3169.] vāk [1487. 6017.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 1. 53.] nirviṇṇaḥ śokasaṃyame [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 11, 26, 4.] saṃyamāt so v. a. mit genauer Noth [Spr. (II) 3715]; vgl. jedoch [6559.] —

5) Bändigung der Sinne, Selbstbeherrschung [Bhagavadgītā 4, 26.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 14] (Anhalten des Athems [STENZLER][?). Mahābhārata 11, 185. 12, 9602. 13, 1369 (pl.). Rāmāyaṇa 2, 1, 17.] ugra [5, 42, 17.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 2, 59.] [Spr. (II) 1060. 1195. 2943.] paradhanaharaṇe [4310. 6559.] [Śākuntala 92. 171. 177.] nisargacapalānāṃ hi mādṛśāṃ saṃyamaḥ (hier so v. a. vāksaṃyamaḥ) kutaḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 121, 151.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 33.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 51, 54.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 21, 41. 22, 6.] —

6) im Yoga Concentration des Geistes: dhāraṇādhyānasamādhitrayamantaraṅgaṃ saṃyamapadavācyam [SARVADARŚANAS. 154,9. 10. 177,3.] [Oxforder Handschriften 229,a, No. 561, Z. 20.] —

7) Unterdrückung so v. a. Vernichtung (der Welt) neben utpatti (janman, udaya, sarga) und sthiti [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 45, 28. 46, 7.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 5, 16. 42. 4, 11, 16. 5, 17, 21. 18, 38. 7, 8, 40. 8, 5, 22. 6, 8. 10, 16, 49. 11, 6, 15.] saṃyamāmbhas das Wasser am Ende der Welt [6, 9, 23.] sargasthityantaniyamāḥ (quiescence) [Nīlakaṇṭha 41.] —

8) Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Dhūmrākṣa und Vaters des Kṛśāśva [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 2, 34.] — Vgl. prāṇa [?(Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 22).]

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Saṃyāma (संयाम):—m. = saṃyama [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 3, 63. 6, 2, 144.] [Amarakoṣa 3, 3, 18.]

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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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