Vastu, Vāstu: 35 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVastu (वस्तु):—
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Vastu (वस्तु):—2. (von 5. vas) [Uṇādisūtra 1, 76.] n. [Amarakoṣa 3, 6, 2, 13.]
1) Sitz, Ort: vraṇa [Suśruta 1, 83, 7. 11.] Vgl. kapila . —
2) Ding, Gegenstand, ein reales Ding [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 15, 88.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 8.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 168.] āpaṇe prasāritaṃ vastu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 1, 82, Scholiast] iṣṭa [Meghadūta 111.] spṛhāvatī keṣu vastuṣu [Raghuvaṃśa 3, 5. 5, 18.] anāsthā vāhyavastuṣu [Kumārasaṃbhava 6, 13.] darśanīya [Śākuntala 25, 1.] parihārya [8. 175.] alpānāmapi vastūnāṃ saṃhatiḥ kāryakārikā [Spr. 237.] avasthā vastūni prathayati ca saṃkocayati ca [1713.] svabhāvasundaraṃ vastu [3331.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 51, 27.] asyāṃ (karaṇḍikāyāṃ) asti ca vastu kim [Kathāsaritsāgara 29, 10. 36, 65.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 81, 63.] strīvastvaicchat [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [S. 138.] yannāsti tadasti vastviti mṛṣā jalpadbhirāstikaiḥ [Prabodhacandrodaja 27, 9.] dhī [108, 5.] vāstava [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 1, 2. 2, 6, 4. 10, 23.] vastūni paṇyāni [?6, 16, 6. 8, 6, 25. 8, 35. PAÑCAR. 1, 11, 12. Pañcatantra 157, 22. 253, 19. Hitopadeśa 114, 17, v. l.] bhakṣya [Hitopadeśa ed. JOHNS. 1916.] śrāddha [PAÑCAR. 1, 13, 21.] [Nīlakaṇṭha 26. 259.] [Bālabodhanī 14.] nityānityavastuviveka [Vedānta lecture No. 9.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 13, 4. 22, 20. fgg. 35, 1. 22. 44, 10.] vastujātam die Dinge [17, 12. 53, 10.] nāvastuno vastusiddhiḥ aus Nichts wird nicht Etwas [Kapila 1, 79.] aho vastuni mātsaryamaho bhaktiravastuni was da ist, was nicht da ist [Kathāsaritsāgara 21, 49.] avastunirbandhapara [Kumārasaṃbhava 5, 66.] [Kapila 1, 20.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 10, 6. 7, 4, 33.] [Vedānta lecture No. 20. 79.] pratibuddhavastu adj. Realität [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 28, 38.] kriyā hi vastūpahitā prasīdati ein würdiger Gegenstand [Raghuvaṃśa 3, 29.] vastūni so v. a. Geräthe [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 2, 6, 24.] vastupāṇayaḥ die zu Etwas erforderlichen Dinge in der Hand haltend [10, 84, 45.] vastu am Anfange eines comp. so v. a. vastutas (s. bes.) in Wirklichkeit [5, 18, 37.] —
3) Sache, Angelegenheit, das worum es sich handelt: yaccāpi sarvagaṃ vastu taccaiva pratipāditam [Mahābhārata 1, 70.] vastuṣvaśakyeṣu samudyamaścecchakyeṣu mohādasamudyamaśca [KĀM. NĪTIS. 15, 25.] nirvāhaḥ pratinnavastuṣu [Spr. 672.] smaraṇaṃ priyavastuṣu [1217.] na kiṃcitkvacidastīha vastvasādhyaṃ vipaścitām [1351.] satāṃ hi saṃdehapadeṣu vastuṣu pramāṇamantaḥ karaṇapravṛttayaḥ [273.] jñāta adj. [Kathāsaritsāgara 17, 53. 22, 191. 32, 131. 60, 226. 232.] vastuni vyaktimāgate [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 231.] vastu nirṇīyatāṃ svayam [6, 27.] hāsyavastuṣu [Mahābhārata 4, 118.] vaktāraḥ śāstravastuṣu [Harivaṃśa 13767.] udāharaṇavastuṣu [Kumārasaṃbhava 6, 65.] kasminnabhinayavastunyupadeśaṃ darśayiṣyāmi [Mālavikāgnimitra 16, 12.] pānabhojanavastuṣu [Spr. 402.] kopaprasādavastūni [749.] bhītaparitrāṇa [3172.] —
4) Stoff, Gegenstand einer Rede u.s.w. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 21.] im Gegens. zu vāc Form der Rede [Spr. 3975.] kālidāsagrathita (nāṭaka) [Śākuntala 3, 12.] [Vikramorvaśī 2. 3, 8.] [Mālavikāgnimitra 3, 9.] [DAŚAR. 1, 11. 51.] [Sāhityadarpana 5, 9. 129, 19. 257. fg. 281.] prādhānya [PRATĀPAR.7,a,5. 15,b,4. 20,a,2.] prativastubhāva [77,b,2.] dhvani [15,b,4. 9. 16,a,2. 8.] kathā [Rājataraṅgiṇī.1,8.] [Oxforder Handschriften 50,a, Nalopākhyāna 1.] nirdeśa Inhaltsangabe [Sāhityadarpana 559.] [kāvyādarśa 1, 14.] —
5) bei den Buddhisten so v. a. Statut [WASSILJEW 85.] —
6) vastusama [Mahābhārata 13, 5519] fehlerhaft für babhrusama, wie die ed. Bomb. liest. [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 4, 27] liest die ed. Bomb. pattiṣu statt vastuṣu . — Vgl. prati, bhoga, maṅgalya, yathā, yuddha, raṅga .
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Vāstu (वास्तु):—
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Ends with (+75): Adivastu, Adrishtavastu, Advitiyavastu, Aggalavastu, Ailapailavastu, Amtaravastu, Amtarvastu, Anatmavastu, Antarvastu, Apavastu, Ashcaryavastu, Ativastu, Atmavastu, Avastu, Avyakrita-vastu, Bahyavastu, Bhakshyavastu, Bhautavastu, Bhogavastu, Bhogyavastu.
Full-text (+1235): Vatthu, Vastuvidya, Kapilavastu, Vastushanti, Yuddhavastu, Vastushastra, Vastuvidhana, Vastujnana, Vastutattva, Vastukala, Vastuvicara, Vastukrita, Vastuyaga, Vastubhuta, Sauvastava, Shubhavastu, Vastupala, Vastuhani, Vastupurusha, Vastutas.
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Chapter XXXI - On the Time-measure (tāla)
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Vastu-shastra (1): Canons of Architecture (by D. N. Shukla)
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Gati in Theory and Practice (by Dr. Sujatha Mohan)
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
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Bhūmi 5: the ground difficult to conquer (sudurjayā) < [Chapter XX - (2nd series): Setting out on the Mahāyāna]
Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Kashyapa Shilpa-shastra (study) (by K. Vidyuta)
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