Vaishishtya, Vaiśiṣṭya: 11 definitions

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Vaishishtya has 11 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Vaiśiṣṭya can be transliterated into English as Vaisistya or Vaishishtya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Vaishishty.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Vaiśiṣṭya (वैशिष्ट्य):—(von viśiṣṭa) n.

1) Besonderheit, Eigenthümlichkeit [ŚĀṆḌ. 32.] [TARKAS. 52.] [Sāhityadarpana 27. 31.] [Vedānta lecture No. 69.] [KUSUM. 41, 10. 44, 16.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 507, Scholiast] —

2) Vorzüglichkeit, Vorzug, das Hervorragen, Ausgezeichnetsein, Superiorität: vivāha [Mahābhārata 13, 2559.] triṣu lokeṣu tāvacca vaiśiṣṭyaṃ pratipatsyase [7441.] karmaṇā tasya vaiśiṣṭyaṃ kathayet [KĀM. NĪTIS. 5, 27.] [ŚĀṆḌ. 70.] [Sāhityadarpana 109, 14. 678.] Comm. zu [Prātiśākhya zur Taittirīyasaṃhitā 21, 1.] — Vgl. viśiṣṭavaiśiṣṭya .

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Vaiśiṣṭya (वैशिष्ट्य):—

2) füge Ueberlegenheit hinzu.

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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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