Shunyata, Śūnyatā: 17 definitions

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Shunyata has 17 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Śūnyatā can be transliterated into English as Sunyata or Shunyata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Śūnyatā (शून्यता):—(von śūnya) f.

1) Leerheit, Oede, Verödung: āśramasya [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 1, 35.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 47. 89, 16.] aṅkam tasya ninyaturaśūnyatāmubhe füllten [Raghuvaṃśa 19, 13.] ṛtūnāmaśūnyatā das Vollwerden der Jahreszeiten [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 10, 4, 3, 19.] na paraṃ hṛdi saṃkrāntā citraṃ dikṣvapi śūnyatā [Kathāsaritsāgara 33, 138.] dṛṣṭipāte so v. a. ein stierer Blick [Dhūrtasamāgama 72, 10.] —

2) Leere im Herzen, das Denken an Nichts, Gedankenlosigkeit, Zerstreutheit [SARVADARŚANAS. 176, 16.] [Suśruta 1, 48, 20. 49, 1.] [Sāhityadarpana 201.] —

3) am Ende eines comp. das Ermangeln, das ohne Etwas Sein: karṇotpala [Kumārasaṃbhava 5, 47.] mātṛ [Spr. (II) 2774.] svarūpa [Oxforder Handschriften 229,a, No. 561.] sarva [Scholiast] zu [Kapila 1, 159.] Eigentlich nom. abstr. von śūnya . —

4) Nichtigkeit [BURNOUF,] [?Intr. 442. Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, 5],a. [SARVADARŚANAS. 23, 10.] — Vgl. mahā .

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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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