Visheshana, Viśeṣana, Visesana: 23 definitions

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Visheshana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Visheshana has 22 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Viśeṣana can be transliterated into English as Visesana or Visheshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Visheshan.

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

Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण):—(vom caus. von śiṣ mit vi)

1) adj. unterscheidend, einen Unterschied ausdrückend, specialisirend; n. das näher Bestimmende, Attribut, Adjectiv, Apposition, Prädicat: viśeṣāḥ pañca bhūtānāṃ teṣāṃ cittaṃ viśeṣaṇam [Mahābhārata 14, 1404.] etadviśeṣaṇaṃ tāta manobuddhyoryadantaram [3, 12515.] sa me bhavān śaṃsatu sarvametatsāmānyaśabdaiśca viśeṣaṇaiśca [12, 7374.] tacca svaśabdākārasya viśeṣaṇam [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 7, 3, 47, Scholiast] [TARKAS. 26.] karma [Suśruta.1,247,4.] [Scholiast] zu [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi.1,4,19.4,3,9.] [Vedānta lecture No. 96. 98.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 62,19. 101,22. 104,9. 119,22.] [Oxforder Handschriften 193,a,29.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik.5,9.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.5,18,30.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.1,2,52.2,1,57.3,35.] [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 343.] [Vikramorvaśī 20,3.] saviśeṣaṇamākhyātaṃ vākyam ein Verbum finitum mit seinen Ergänzungen und näheren Bestimmungen heisst Satz [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 242.] viśeṣaṇatā [Bhāṣāpariccheda 60.] [KUSUM. 40,13.] [Oxforder Handschriften 240,a, No. 581.] —

2) n. Art, Species (= viśeṣa): nānāpraharaṇairnānāyuddhaviśeṣaṇaiḥ [Mahābhārata 7, 1124.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 2, 8, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 3.] —

3) n. das Unterscheiden, Unterscheidung [Sāhityadarpana 4, 1. 452.] kakāro naḥ kya iti viśeṣaṇārthaḥ [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 1, 8, Scholiast 4, 1, 2, Scholiast] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 26, 46. 33, 25.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 127, 17.fg.] das Specialisiren, genauere Angabe [Oxforder Handschriften 49,a,5. 56,a,13.] hi syādviśeṣaṇe [Halāyudha 5, 95.] —

4) n. das Bessermachen, Uebertreffen: asya kāvyasya kavayo na samarthā viśeṣaṇe . viśeṣaṇe gṛhasthasya śeṣāstraya ivāśramāḥ .. [Mahābhārata 1, 73. 653.] —

5) n. = viśeṣokti [Sāhityadarpana 434.] — Vgl. kriyā, nirviśeṣaṇa .

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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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