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Niryana, ṇa: 15 definitions

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In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by Varahamihira

ṇa (निर्या�) refers to “one’s death�, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “We shall now proceed to give a brief description of (the qualifications of) a dzپṣa첹. [...] He must be able to use the Aṣṭakavarga tables to a given horoscope. He must know how the several Raja, Candra, Dvigraha, and Nabhasa yogas affect the fortunes of men. He must also know how the fortunes of men are affected by the position and look of planets. He must be able to calculate the cause of one’s death [i.e., Ծṇa] and discover his future life�.

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Jyotisha (ज्योति�, dzپṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy� or “Vedic astrology� and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)

: archive.org: The Elephant Lore of the Hindus

ṇa (निर्या�) refers to the “outer corner of the eye� (of an elephant), according to the 15th century ٲṅgī composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient  India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 6, “on determination of measurements”]: �9. Above the trunk tips, the ṇḍūṣa. But the ridge over the eye is the īṣi. The outer corner of the eye is the Ծṇa. But the root of the ear is the ū (‘little crest�)�.

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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.

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Niryana in Marathi glossary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

Ծṇa (निर्या�).—n S Setting forth (on a journey); starting, departing. 2 Going forth or out.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Sanskrit dictionary

: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

ṇa (निर्या�).�1 Exit, issue, setting out, departure.

2) Vanishing, disappearing.

3) Dying, doath.

4) Eternal emancipation, final beatitude.

5) The outer corner of the eye of an elephant; वारण� निर्याणमागेऽमिप्रन� (vāraṇa� Ծṇamāge'mipran) Daśakumāracarita 97; निर्याणनिर्यदसृज� चलित� निषादी (Ծṇaniryadasṛja� calita� niṣādī) Śśܱ 5.41; Mātaṅga. L.6.9. 12.19.

6) A rope for tying cattle or the feet of a calf, a foot-rope in general; निर्याणहस्तस्य पुरो दुधुक्षत� (Ծṇahastasya puro dudhukṣata�) Śśܱ 12.41.

7) Iron.

8) Decamping (of an army)

9) Going out (of cattle to the pasture ground).

1) A road leading out of a town.

Derivable forms: Ծṇam (निर्याणम�).

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

ṇa (निर्या�).�nt. (Pali niyna, in meaning 3; Pali and Sanskrit also going out, literally, and so [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] bhavaty apardatta� sarvapradīpaԾṇai� Ҳṇḍū 502.15, said of a light from which many other flames have been lighted, it does not become exhausted by the going forth from it of all the lights, in Sanskrit also in meaning of a military art, marching forth, as in Ѳ屹ܳٱ貹ٳپ 4986 = Tibetan mdun du bsnur (rnur, rgyu) ba, going forth; and nirṇe Lalitavistara 156.12, in list of arts mastered by the Boddhisattva as prince; پ屹Բ 442.6), (1) as in Sanskrit, departure: (bheruṇḍakā…manuṣyakuṇapāni vi-[WT ca] bhakṣayanta�,) teṣāṃ (sc. bheruṇḍakānā�) ca nirṇu pratīkṣamāṇāḥ śvānā� śṛgālāś ca vasanty aneke 󲹰ṇḍī첹 83.12 (verse), and waiting for them to leave�; Burnouf and Kern, matter, issue (of the putrescent corpses); (2) expertness, surpassing knowledge, skill, as n. act. (abstract) to nirta 2, q.v.: bahulipi-Ծṇata� Lalitavistara 146.1�2, as regards expertness in many scripts; in Ծṇam iva sarvakuśala- mūlasya (Bodhisattvasya) Lalitavistara 10.4 something seems wrong with the reading; mss. vary greatly; Tibetan dge baḥi rtsa ba (= kuśalamūla) ṅes par byas pa, with rightly made or accomplished roots of merit, as if nirta-kuśalamūlasya (per- haps rather nirjāta-?); it is often hard to distinguish this meaning from 3, below; the following cases seem to me more likely to belong here: parārthapratipatti-Ծṇa-Śṣāsܳⲹ 7.16�17, expertness (not dying, Bendall and Rouse) in accomplishing the interests of others; so probably when praṇidhi (°dhāna) depends on this, expertness, skill in accomplishing (the Bodhisattva's vow), -bodhisattvapraṇidhicar-Ծṇa- Ҳṇḍū 98.8; -praṇidhāna-Ծṇa-mukhāni Ҳṇḍū 490.2; (mahā- praṇidhānabala� vā saṃvarṇayitu�) (sc. praṇidhāna-?) Ծṇa-mukha� vāvabhāsayitu� Ҳṇḍū 99.8; less certain, perhaps to (3) deliverance, bodhisattva-Ծṇa-viśuddhi- parimārgaṇa� Ҳṇḍū 59.26; sarvajña-jñāna-Ծṇa-mārga- vidhi� pradarśayamānān Ҳṇḍū 86.5; mahāna-Ծṇam abhidyotayamānān Ҳṇḍū 92.18; surely here, because asso- ciated with nirta, and rendered in Tibetan ṅes par ḥbyu� ba, Ѳ屹ܳٱ貹ٳپ 2543 (tho found in a chapter headed pariśuddha- par�, which might suggest deliverance); -aԾṇa, [Page303-b+ 71] q.v., Tibetan mi ḥgyur ba, not arriving at, in -anyanāԾṇa- Ѳ屹ٳ 785; (3) (= Pali niyna) deliverance, salvation (compare nirṇika, nair°), often hard to distinguish from 2 above: na cātyanta-Ծṇa-vihāriṇa� Ҳṇḍū 472.13 (this is a distinction of Bodhisattvas in the Mahāna); ya� punar dharma� pratikṣipati śrāvaka-Ծṇa-bhāṣita� vā pra- tyekabuddha-nir°-bhā° vā mahāna-nir°-bhā° vā pra- tikṣipati Śṣāsܳⲹ 59.15�16, seems most likely to mean deliver- ance, ‘Scheme of Deliverance� (Bendall and Rouse); if so, the same must follow with parapudgalānā� ca na- traya-nirṇāya ǻ󾱲ٳٱū 87.20; śrāvakana-nirṇādhi- muktinānātvam avatarati ٲśū첹ūٰ 56.11; less certain, perhaps to 2 above, nidarśayitāro Ծṇa-mukhānām Ҳṇḍū 463.7; bodhisattvasvibhrānta-Ծṇam abhidyotita� bhavati ǻ󾱲ٳٱū 258.2; -paramana-Ծṇa- Ѳ屹ܳٱ貹ٳپ 795 = Tibetan ḥbyu� ba, arriving at�; (4) deliverance from, curing of (a disease): ū-پ岹-վԲⲹ i.x.15.

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

ṇa (निर्या�).—n.

(-ṇa�) 1. Going forth or out, exit, issue. 2. Eternal emancipation, final beatitude. 3. A rope for tying cattle, a foot- rope. 4. The outer corner of an elephant’s eye. 5. Vanishing. 6. Death. E. nir before, to go, affix karaṇe lyu�.

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

ṇa (निर्या�).—i. e. nis- + ana, n. 1. Setting out, Mahābhārata 1, 333. 2. Vanishing, [Ჹٲṅgṇ�] 3, 261. 3. Death, Mahābhārata 15, 1050. 4. The outer corner of an elephant’s eye, [Śśܱ] 5, 41. 5. A rope for binding a calf’s feet, 12, 41.

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

ṇa (निर्या�).—[neuter] going out or off, departure, disappearance, death.

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) ṇa (निर्या�):—[=nir-ṇa] [from nir-] n. going forth or out, exit, issue

2) [v.s. ...] setting out, decamping (of an army), going out (of cattle to the pasture ground), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.

3) [v.s. ...] departure, vanishing, disappearance, [Ჹٲṅgṇ�; Sāhitya-darpaṇa]

4) [v.s. ...] departure from life, death, [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa; Varāha-mihira]

5) [v.s. ...] final emancipation ([wrong reading] for Ծ-ṇa ?), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

6) [v.s. ...] a road leading out of a town, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

7) [v.s. ...] the outer corner of an elephant’s eye, [Daśakumāra-carita; Śiśupāla-vadha] (cf. Ծ-ṇҲԲ)

8) [v.s. ...] a rope for tying cattle, a foot-rope

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

ṇa (निर्या�):—[nir-ṇa] (ṇa�) 1. n. Going out issue; travelling; final; the outer corner of an elephant’s eye; beatitude; tether for cattle.

: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

ṇa (निर्या�) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇiṇa.

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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.

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Kannada-English dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Niryana in Kannada glossary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

ṇa (ನಿರ್ಯಾ�):�

1) [noun] a leaving from a place; a going away; departure.

2) [noun] a going out of sight; disappearance.

3) [noun] death; cessation of life.

4) [noun] a string for tying a cow’s legs while drawing milk from its udder.

5) [noun] the outer corner of an elephant’s eye.

6) [noun] liberation from the worldly life; emancipation.

7) [noun] a shifting of a camp (as of soldiers).

8) [noun] a way out (to go out of a town).

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Nepali dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Niryana in Nepali glossary
: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

ṇa (निर्या�):—n. 1. exit; issue; departure; 2. vanishing; disappearing; 3. death; 4. eternal emancipation; 5. a rope for tying cattle on the feet;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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