Jihma, : 17 definitions
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Jihma means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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.
In Hinduism
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Source: Wisdom Library: Nṭya-śstra(जिह्मा, “crooked�) refers to a specific “glance� (ṛṣṭi), according to the Nṭyaśstra chapter 8. This is a type of glance that expresses a ‘transitory state� (ṃc屹). There are a total thirty-six glances defined.
: archive.org: The mirror of gesture (abhinaya-darpana)A type of glance (or facial expression): Jihma (oblique): bent back, a slow and hidden glance; used to convey secret meanings, and in envy.
: archive.org: Natya Shastra(जिह्मा).—A type of glance (ṛṣṭi) expressing a transitory state (ṃc屹);—The Glance in which the eyelids are hanging down and slightly contracted and the eyeballs are concealed, and which casts itself obliquely and slyly is called (crooked).
Uses of (crooked)—in envy, stupor and indolence.
: Shodhganga: Elements of Art and Architecture in the Trtiyakhanda of the Visnudharmottarapurana (natya)(जिह्मा) refers to one of the Thirty six kinds of Glances (ṛṣṭi) or “proper accomplishment of glances� (in Indian Dramas), according to the Viṣṇudharmottarapurṇa, an ancient Sanskrit text which (being encyclopedic in nature) deals with a variety of cultural topics such as arts, architecture, music, grammar and astronomy.—Dṛṣṭi is very important in a dance form. The appropriate movements of eyes, eyeballs and eyebrows of an artist make the performance more charming. There are thirty six kinds of glances (ṛṣṭi) accepted in the Viṣṇudharmottarapurṇa, for example ᾱ, belonging to the styībvaṛṣṭi division.

Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, ṭyśٰ) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
Ayurveda (science of life)
: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of termsJihma (जिह्�):—[jihmaṃ] Tortuous, Curved, Distorted

Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan BuddhismJihma (जिह्�) is the name of a Śrvaka mentioned as attending the teachings in the 6th century Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa: one of the largest Kriy Tantras devoted to Mañjuśrī (the Bodhisattva of wisdom) representing an encyclopedia of knowledge primarily concerned with ritualistic elements in Buddhism. The teachings in this text originate from Mañjuśrī and were taught to and by Buddha Śkyamuni in the presence of a large audience (including Jihma).

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryJihma (जिह्�).�a. [jati saralargam; -man sanvat lopaśca Uṇdi-sūtra 1.138]
1) Sloping, athwart, oblique.
2) Crooked, awry, squint; Ṛtusaṃra 1.12.
3) Tortuous, curved, going irregularly.
4) Curved, bent.
5) Morally crooked, deceitful, dishonest, wicked, unfair; धृतहेतिरप्यधृतजिह्ममति� (ṛtپⲹṛtᾱپ�) Kirrjunīya 6.24; सुहृदर्थमीहितमजिह्मधियाम� (ܳṛdٳīٲᾱ峾) Śiśuplavadha 9.62.
5) Dim, dark, pale-coloured; विधिसमयनियोगाद्दीप्तिसंहारजिह्मम् (ⲹԾDzīپṃhᾱ) Kirrjunīya 1.46.
6) Slow, lazy.
-hmam 1 Dishonesty; falsehood; जिह्माप्रायं व्यवहृतम� (ᾱprya� vyavahṛtam) Bgavata 1.14.4; समर्थस्त्व� रण� हन्तुं विक्रम� जिह्मकारिणम् (samarthastva� raṇe hantu� vikrame jihmakriṇam) 峾.4.27.36.
2) The Tagara tree.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryJihma (जिह्�).�adj. (in these senses recorded nowhere else; Sanskrit, Pali jimha, and Prakrit jimha, jimma, regularly crooked or fig. dishonest), (1) bereft of light, obscured, not shining, dull; regularly said of entities regarded as brightly shining in themselves, but having their light eclipsed or obscured by a greater radiance, especially that emitted or caused by the Buddha; so at the bodhi-tree Buddha causes a radiance which makes the divine abodes of the gods jihma Ѳ屹ٳ ii.316.18 or jihmavarṇa Ѳ屹ٳ ii.313.17; 316.16 and by Senart's em. (for mss. jihmabala) 295.1; 296.9; 304.1; 308.16 (in all these jihma-bala might stand, of obscured, dulled power); similarly, jihma vipaśyatha (so divide) divya tmabv� Lalitavistara 49.12 (verse; Apsarases speak, looking at My's superior beauty), see how (our) divine bodies are eclipsed (in splendor); jihma sarvatuṣilayo bhuto (m.c. for bhūto) 54.3 (verse), the whole abode of the Tuṣita became splendorless; sarvṇi rabhavanni karonti ᾱ 296.16 (verse); jihma (so divide; acc. sg.) kurvati jagat sadevakam ṣṭ貹ṛc 6.15 (verse); also fig. of the intelligence and senses; vijñna, in Ѳ屹ٳ ii.355.14 (verse) ye gṛdd lbhasatkre jihma-vijñna-(dull intelligence)-niśri; and Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 31.12 (apyeṣūpapanno) durgandho bhavati jihmendriyo bhavaty avyaktendriya�,�of dull and obscure (see avyakta) senses; (2) (compare jihmīkṛta� Ѳ屹ܳٱ貹ٳپ 5200, below s.v. jihmīkaroti, with Tibetan) disappointed, depressed, saddened, despondent: in Lalitavistara 193.19 (verse) read (with v.l.) ᾱ-jihma (n. pl., mreḍita) sudurman, very depressed and downcast; con- firmed by Tibetan dman zhi� dman; probably so, a-jihma in ܰ屹īū 25.16 (prose) aśaṅko 'jihmo, free from doubt and despondency (in a description of a Bodhisattva); to be sure the next words are 'śaṭho 'yvī, which suggest the Sanskrit meaning, not deceitful, but these lists of charac- teristics are apt to go in pairs, and aśaṅka suggests this [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] meaning of (a-)jihma, which is otherwise known [Page243-b+ 71] and easily develops from mg (1). See the following items, which support both mgs.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryJihma (जिह्�).—mfn.
(-�--�) 1. Morally Crooked. 2. Dishonest. 3. Slow, lazy. 4. Dim, dark. 5. Oblique squint. m.
(-�) A tree, (Tabernæmontana coronaria.) E. to quit, (a straight line,) man Unadi affix, and the root reduplicated, deriv, irr. man sanvat lopaśca .
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryJihma (जिह्�).� (probably akin to �, for primitive ji�, i. e. redupl. �, + a), adj., f. . 1. Oblique,
Jihma (जिह्�).—[adjective] not straight or upright, oblique, transverse, crooked; [with] i, gam, etc. go awry or astray, fail, miss ([ablative]).
� [neuter] & � [feminine] falsehood, dishonesty.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Jihma (जिह्�):—mf()n. ([Nirukta, by Yska viii 15]) oblique, transverse, athwart, [Ṛg-veda i f.; Taittirīya-saṃhi ii; Śatapatha-brhmaṇa v]
2) squinting (as the eye), [i, 5; śܳٲ; Varha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhi] etc.
3) with �i ([Śatapatha-brhmaṇa iii, v; Aitareya-brhmaṇa v, 9]), gam, Ծ-ṛc ([Atharva-veda xii, 4, 53]), 1. as ([Śatapatha-brhmaṇa xi]), to go irregularly, turn off from the right way, miss the aim ([ablative])
4) crooked, tortuous, curved, [Horace H. Wilson]
5) morally crooked, deceitful, false, dishonest, [Yjñavalkya ii, 165; Mabrata] etc.
6) slow, lazy, [Naiṣadha-carita ii, 102]
7) dim, dulled, [Kirrjunīya]
8) n. falsehood, dishonesty, [Praśna-upaniṣad i, 16; Mabrata; Bgavata-purṇa i, 14, 4];—Tabernaemontana coronaria, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
9) n. cf. , vi-.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryJihma (जिह्�):—[(hma�-h-hma�) a.] Crooked, dishonest, mean. lazy. 1. n. A tree (Tabernæ montana coronaria).
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Jihma (जिह्�) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Jimha.
[Sanskrit to German]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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.
Kannada-English dictionary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusJihma (ಜಿಹ್�):�
1) [noun] a crooked thing.
2) [noun] a lazy, indolent man.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+1): Jihmabara, Jihmadrishti, Jihmaga, Jihmagati, Jihmakarin, Jihmaksha, Jihmam, Jihmamehana, Jihmamina, Jihmamohana, Jihmaprekshin, Jihmashalya, Jihmashi, Jihmashin, Jihmashiras, Jihmata, Jihmatva, Jihmay, Jihmaya, Jihmayodhin.
Full-text (+40): Jihmaga, Ajihma, Vijihma, Jihmashalya, Jihmata, Jihmamohana, Jihmashi, Jihmagati, Jihmaksha, Jihmita, Jaihmya, Jihmabara, Jihmetara, Jihmam, Jihmashiras, Jihmadrishti, Shothajihma, Jihmamina, Vyajihma, Jihmayodhin.
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Vishnudharmottara Purana (Art and Architecture) (by Bhagyashree Sarma)
2.6. Dṛṣṭi (sight or glance) < [Chapter 3 - Drama and Dance]
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Page 315 < [Volume 3 (1906)]
Abhinaya-darpana (English) (by Ananda Coomaraswamy)
Arts in the Puranas (study) (by Meena Devadatta Jeste)
9. Rasa-drishtis (glances) < [Chapter 2 - Dance in the Puranas]
Yajnavalkya-smriti (Vyavaharadhyaya)—Critical study (by Kalita Nabanita)
Chapter 5.20 - Laws Relating to Joint Commercial Undertaking < [Chapter 5 - Modern Indian Laws reflected from the Vyavardhyya]