Vetala, Vetāla: 24 definitions
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Vetala has 24 English definitions available.
Alternative spellings of this word include Vetal.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVetāla (वेताल):—
1) m. [Amarakoṣa 3, 6, 2, 21.] a) Bez. eines Dämons, der von todten Körpern Besitz nimmt und sich derselben als Hülle bedient, [Harivaṃśa 14533.] [KĀM. NĪTIS. 17, 52.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 12, 48. 18, 151. 25, 136.] vihasannapi vetālaḥ (hanyāt) [Spr. 1430.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī.1,292.3,349. 351.6,191.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.2,10,39.7,8,38.] [Oxforder Handschriften 94,b,37.] bhūtavetālamatanibarhaṇa [?251,a,45. WILSON, Sel. Works I,26. Hitopadeśa 65,11. fg. Vetālapañcaviṃśati in Lassen’s Anthologie (III)4,14 u.s.w. TĀRAN. 228.] siddhi [206.] [WASSILJEW 196.] [Oxforder Handschriften 94,b,27.] sādhana [Kathāsaritsāgara 26, 235.] karmajña [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 15, 4.] vetālotthāpana [Rājataraṅgiṇī 8, 2188.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 310,] [Nalopākhyāna 4.] vetālākhyāyikā [Oxforder Handschriften 354,a,37.] pañcaviṃśati und pañcaviṃśatikā [25] Erzählungen vom Vetāla [Bibliothecae sanskritae 366.] von Śivadāsa [Colebrooke] [?II,87. Oxforder Handschriften 152,b,3.] von Jambhaladatta [152,a, No. 327.] von Somadeva [84,b,9.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 75. fgg.] — b) Nomen proprium α) eines Wesens im Gefolge Śiva’s [VYĀḌI] beim Schol. zu [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 210.] [Kalikāpurāṇa 45. 49] nach [Śabdakalpadruma] — β) eines Lehrers [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 12, 6, 58.] — c) = dvārapālaka [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) f. ī ein Name der Durgā [Harivaṃśa 10240.] —
3) vetālī indecl. in Verbindung mit kar u. s. w. gaṇa ūryādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.1, 4, 61.] — Vgl. uṣṇavetālī ( [Harivaṃśa 9542]), lomavetāla, vaitālīya . Das Wort wird gewöhnlich in veta = aveta + āla = ālaya zerlegt und durch in Verstorbenen hausend übersetzt, wogegen zu bemerken ist, dass aveta nicht = preta ist.
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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Starts with (+15): Vetala bhatta, Vetalabhatta, Vetalaci Khari, Vetalaci Pheri, Vetaladarshana, Vetalajanani, Vetalaka, Vetalakalpa, Vetalakarmajna, Vetalakarman, Vetalakavaca, Vetalakhyayika, Vetalakkanni, Vetalakshema, Vetalam, Vetalamalamantra, Vetalamantra, Vetalamardana, Vetalamardanatantra, Vetalanem.
Ends with: Agnivetala, Agyavetala, Bhutavetala, Cauvetala, Cavetala, Lomavetala, Nanavetala, Savetala, Shmashanavetala.
Full-text (+528): Vetalapancavimshati, Yamashikha, Bhetala, Mantradhiraja, Vaitala, Vetalasadhana, Bhutaketu, Vaitaliya, Mandaravati, Agnivetala, Savetala, Vetalapancavimshatika, Vetalaci Pheri, Vetalika, Vetalasiddhi, Vetalakarmajna, Vetalavimshati, Vetalastotra, Vetalotthapana, Vetalaci Khari.
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Yoga Vasistha [English], Volume 1-4 (by Vihari-Lala Mitra)
Chapter XXXIX - Description of the battlefield infested by nocturnal fiends < [Book III - Utpatti khanda (utpatti khanda)]
Chapter XLIX - Description of daivastras or supernatural weapons < [Book III - Utpatti khanda (utpatti khanda)]
Chapter LXX - Interrogatories of vitala < [Book VI - Nirvana prakarana part 1 (nirvana prakarana)]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 8.13.85 < [Chapter 13 - A Thousand Names of Lord Balarāma]
Verse 6.1.30 < [Chapter 1 - Jarāsandha’s Defeat]
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 8 - Sudarśana Becomes a Vampire < [Section 1 - Setu-māhātmya]
Chapter 9 - Redemption of Sudarśana and Sukarṇa < [Section 1 - Setu-māhātmya]
Chapter 36 - The Glory of Dhanuṣkoṭi: Durācāra Liberated < [Section 1 - Setu-māhātmya]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Vetāla 5: Somaprabhā and her Three Suitors < [Appendix 6.1 - The Twenty-five Tales of a Vetāla]
Chapter XCIX < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]
Notes on vampires < [Notes]
Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika) (by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat)
Verse 17.22 < [Chapter 17 - Shraddha-traya-vibhaga-yoga]
Bhagavad-gita-mahatmya (by Shankaracharya)