Sattva, Sāttva, Shattva: 22 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchṢaṭtva (षट्त्व):—(von ṣaṣ) n. Sechszahl [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 2, 29, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 7.]
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Sattva (सत्त्व):—(von sant), am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā .
1) n. das Sein, Existenz, Realität [Halāyudha 5, 82.] [Vaijayantī] bei [Mallinātha] zu [Kirātārjunīya 12, 40.] smo va.amityāhā.māname.a sa.tvaṃ gamayati [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 2, 5, 9, 5. 5, 2, 1, 6. 4, 6, 5.] [NṚS. TĀP. Upakośā] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 162.] sarvatra [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 287.] [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 7, 294.] [Nīlakaṇṭha 12. 21. 52. 121.] Comm. zu [Jaimini 1, 31.] zu [Kapila 1, 4.] asti sattve [Amarakoṣa 3, 5, 18.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1541.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 9, 9. fgg. 12, 21. 14, 7. 141, 15.] a [?12, 21. 14, 11. NṚS. TĀP. Upakośā in Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 162. Nīlakaṇṭha 164. Sāhityadarpana 269. morgenländischen Gesellschaft 7, 294.] —
2) n. Wesen, Charakter: putrasya putraḥ sattvamaśnute [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 15, 12, 2.] sattvānurūpā sarvasya śraddhā bhavati [Bhagavadgītā 17, 3.] [Spr. (II) 4753.] kriyāsiddhiḥ sattve vasati mahatāṃ nopakaraṇe [?5712 = 6145.] sarvaḥ kṛcchragato pi vāñchati janaḥ sattvānurūpaṃ phalam [7322. 7420.] [Kirātārjunīya 12, 40.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 68, 114.] nābhiḥ svaraḥ sattvamiti pradiṣṭaṃ gambhīrametattritayaṃ narāṇām [85.] [Suśruta 1, 124, 12.] adīna adj. [Mahābhārata 3, 11909. 15599.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 72, 53. 4, 29, 25.] abhinandya adj. [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 31.] ārya, udāra adj. [Mahābhārata 2, 2366.] ucchṛṅkhala, śāstraniyamita [Spr. (II) 369.] unnata [6560.] ūrjita adj. [6511.] ṛjubuddhi adj. [Mahābhārata 15, 672.] kalyāṇasattvatā [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 44, 14.] krūra adj. [Prabodhacandrodaja 115, 11.] tīvra, manda adjj. [Kathāsaritsāgara 35, 75. fg.] dṛḍha adj. [67. 88, 49.] dhīra [35, 63.] laghu adj. [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka 15, 13.] lāghava [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 6, 6.] viśuddhasattvavijñāna adj. [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 22, 12.] śuddha [?ady. 2, 38, 29.] sthira [?ady. Rāmāyaṇa SCHL. 2, 83, 8.] siṃha, vyāghra, varāhamṛga, jala adj. [Mahābhārata 13, 2155.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 68, 108. 111. fgg.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 113, 16.] antaḥsattva eines Rubins [Spr. (II) 867.] sattva = svabhāva [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 540.] [Medinīkoṣa v. 28.] [Vaijayantī a. a. O.] = ātmabhāva [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] = ātmatva [Medinīkoṣa] —
3) n. ein fester Charakter, Festigkeit, Entschlossenheit, Energie, Muth [Bhagavadgītā 10, 36.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 21, 38.] [KĀM. NĪTIS. 1, 16. fg. 4, 6. 29. 43. 68. 5, 13. 13, 2. 19, 62.] [Suśruta 1, 130, 2.] tulyasattvānāṃ siṃhānām [Raghuvaṃśa 4, 72.] [Spr. (II) 646. 2781, v. l. 3161. 3502. 4387. 4465. 7504.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 196. 283. 389] (doppelsinnig). sattvamanudhāvanti saṃpadaḥ [27, 134. 208. 35, 43. 53, 143. 66, 109.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 53. 4, 65. 5, 131.] [Sāhityadarpana 197.] satataṃ sattvamāsthitaḥ [Mahābhārata 12, 4257.] dhārayaṃsattvam [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 22, 2.] sattvamāśritya kevalam [3, 40, 18.] abālasattvo bālaḥ [Śākuntala 101, 21.] āpadyapi tyājyaṃ na sattvam [Kathāsaritsāgara 21, 100.] sattvāvasāda [18, 309.] sattvotkarṣa [Hitopadeśa 100, 6.] saṃpannaḥ sattvasaṃpadā [Amarakoṣa 3, 1, 13.] saṃpanna [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 308.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 78, 2. 101, 17.] yukta [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 39.] sattvānvita [Dhūrtasamāgama 77, 2.] sattvodrikta [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 343.] sattvādhika [Spr. (II) 1431.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 27, 134] (karman). [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie (II) 29, 1. 2.] sattvāḍhya [Kathāsaritsāgara 12, 44] (doppelsinnig). [38, 2.] rūpasattvaguṇopeta [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 40.] vīryaguṇopeta [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 6, 22.] buddhyupapanna [Spr. (II) 6711.] sattvābhijanasaṃpanna [6712.] sattvotsāharahita [Hitopadeśa 30, 2.] vihīnāḥ sattvena [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 27, 8.] hīna adj. [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 13, 69.] [Suśruta 2, 474, 16.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 27, 69. 43, 88.] vihīna adj. [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 16, 32.] uttama, madhyama [?adyy. Suśruta 2, 226, 12. fg. Kathāsaritsāgara 15, 117.] alpa adj. [25, 98.] sattva = vyavasāya [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 27, 215.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Vaijayantī] = sthāman [Halāyudha] = bala [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Vaijayantī] = parākrama [Vaijayantī] —
4) n. das absolut gute Wesen, die erste der drei Qualitäten (guṇa) der Prakṛti [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 4, 7.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha] [Yāska’s Nirukta 14, 3.] [MAITRYUP. 4, 3. 5, 2.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 12, 24.] sattvaṃ jñānam 26. tatra yatprītisaṃyuktaṃ kiṃcidātmani lakṣayet . praśāntamiva śuddhābhaṃ sattvaṃ tadupadhārayet .. [27. 37.] sattvasya lakṣaṇaṃ dharmaḥ 38. yukta [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 159.] [SĀṂKHYAK. 13. 54.] [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 324.] [Sânkhya Philosophy 25.] [Vedānta lecture No. 25.] [Madhusūdanasarasvatī’s Prasthānabheda] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 23, 17.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 147, 17. 151, 13.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 69, 9. 14.] [BṚH. 2, 7.] sattvodreka [Sāhityadarpana 34.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 2, 19. 23. 25. 3, 3. 4, 30, 42.] [MUIR, Stenzler 1, 19. fg. 23. 28. fg. 33.] —
5) n. geistiges Wesen, Geist; = citta [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] = antaḥkaraṇa [Vaijayantī] śuddha [Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3, 2, 6.] śuddhi [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 159.] [Nīlakaṇṭha 22.] puruṣānyatā [25. fg.] [Śiśupālavadha 4, 55] (= prakṛti [Mallinātha][?). Oxforder Handschriften 231], a, 8. b, 27. 232, a, 17. [fg.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 167, 11.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 10, 23. 7, 15, 41.] nirvṛtte tvaṅgasattvābhyāṃ dve triṣvāṅgikasāttvike [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 7, 16.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 283.] [Sāhityadarpana 164. fg.] mūḍha adj. [Mahābhārata 3, 15710.] —
6) n. Lebensathem; = asu, prāṇa [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 27, 215.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Vaijayantī] tena śabdena sahasā samudre parvatopamāḥ . āplavanta gataiḥ sattvairmatsyāḥ śatasahasraśaḥ .. [Mahābhārata 3, 12098] (= buddhibhiḥ [Nīlakaṇṭha]). udgatānīva sattvāni [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 48, 1 (45, 1 Gorresio).] parikalpitasattvayoga adj. [Śākuntala 42.] gata adj. [Mahābhārata 3, 2683. 15798.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 60, 1. 4, 9, 81.] —
7) n. ein reales Wesen, Gegenstand, Ding; = dravya, vastu [Amarakoṣa] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 8. 21.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Vaijayantī] sattvapradhānāni nāmāni [Yāska’s Nirukta 1, 1. 12. 20. 2, 7. 15. 7, 4. 9, 1.] [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 12, 5. 8.] [Prātiśākha zum Atharvaveda S. 261.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 4, 57. 2, 3, 33. II, S. 451] unter guṇa. gāmin [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 1, 63.] —
8) m. n. ein lebendes Wesen, insbes. ein unvernünftiges [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 27, 215.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1366.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha 5, 82. 3, 34.] [Vaijayantī] asthimant [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 11, 140.] annādyaja, rasaja [143.] hiṃsra [12, 56.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 275.] [Mahābhārata 1, 1135.] rātricārin, divācārin [10, 26. fg.] sattvaiḥ sattvā hi jīvanti durbalairbalavattarāḥ [12, 443. 4258.] strī vā pumānvā yaccānyatsattvaṃ nagararāṣṭrajam [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 9, 21. 40, 20. 2, 25, 18.] audakāni [?33, 13 (15 Gorresio). 55, 7. Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 43, 2. 3, 55, 48. 64, 21. 4, 1, 15. 5, 14, 62. 7, 4, 9. 10. Jaimini 1, 9. Suśruta 1, 114, 7. 2, 399, 18. 538, 12. 15. 18. 495, 20. KĀM. NĪTIS. 15, 9. Kumārasaṃbhava 5, 17. Raghuvaṃśa 2, 8. 14. 38. 6, 46. 14, 75. 15, 15. Śākuntala 38. 192. 17, 20. 93, 5. Spr. (II) 3755. 4424. 4526. 4929. 5609. 6263. Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 54. 21, 23. 32, 1. 25. 33, 5. 91, 2.] yuddha [43, 28.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 12, 44. 18, 389] (an beiden Stellen doppelsinnig). [60, 22. 92.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 133] (hiṃsā mit der ed. Calc. zu lesen). [?3, 4. Sāhityadarpana 38, 10. Brahmapurāṇa in Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 48, 12. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 15, 14. 3, 13, 21. 26, 18. 5, 9, 21. Pañcatantra 69, 5. 165, 9. Hitopadeśa 56, 20. BURNOUF, Intr. 593.] —
9) m. n. ein gespenstisches Wesen, ein böser Geist, Kobold; = piśācādi [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Vaijayantī] = gandharva [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 21, 135.] sattvāstu nārakāḥ [1, 2, 2, 2.] rakṣoyakṣādisattvānāṃ darśanam [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 92.] sattvamāviśya [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 33, 10.] sattvenāviṣṭacetanaḥ [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 2, 33, 11. fg.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 44, 159.] —
10) m. Nomen proprium eines der Söhne des Dhṛtarāṣṭra [Mahābhārata 1, 4543. -] [Śabdakalpadruma] führt noch folgende Bedd. an: rasa, āyus nach [Dharaṇīkoṣa] kubera angeblich nach H. dhana nach [Śabdaratnāvalī] — Vgl. a, antaḥ, āpanna (auch [Suśruta 2, 491, 6]), duḥ, deva, niḥ, bodhi, bhīru, mahā, yāvat, vajra, sa, su, sāttvika .
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Sāttva (सात्त्व):—(von sattva) adj. zur Qualität sattva in Beziehung stehend u.s.w. [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 40, 7. 42, 4.]
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