Alternative spellings of this word include Vikiran.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Vikiraṇa (विकिरण) refers to “suppression”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as Bodhisattva Gaganagañja explains to Bodhisattva Ratnaśrī what kind of concentration should be purified: “[...] (7) [when the Bodhisattvas attain] the concentration called ‘Suppression’ (vikiraṇa-samādhi), all vices will be conquered; (8) [when the Bodhisattvas attain] the concentration called ‘Turning,’ the way of right side will be fulfilled. (9) [when the Bodhisattvas attain] the concentration called ‘Returning,’ they will turn back from rationalistic heresy; [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Vikirana in India is the name of a plant defined with Calotropis procera in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Asclepias gigantea Willd. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Les Figures des Plantes et Animaux d'Usage en Medecine (1764)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1903)
· Journal of South China Agricultural University (1991)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)
· Atti dell’Istituto Botanico dell’Università di Pavia (1936)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Vikirana, for example health benefits, diet and recipes, chemical composition, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, side effects, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

vikiraṇa : (nt.) scattering; dispersion.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Vikiraṇa, (nt. & adj.) (fr. vikirati) 1. scattering, dispersing; being scattered or dispersed D. I, 11 (cp. DA. I, 96). -Vbh. 358 (T. reads vikī°; v. l. vikāraṇa & vikkir°)=Pug. 23 (which reads nikaraṇā; trsl. “guilefulness”). In this connection VbhA. 493 interprets vikiraṇa (or °ā) as “denial, abnegation” (pretext?), by saying “nâhaṃ eva karomī ti pāpānaṃ vikkhipanato vikiraṇā. ” — With ref. to Arahantship (the dissolution of the body) at DhA. III, 109 in formula bhedana-vikiraṇa-viddhaṃsanadhamma i.e. “of the nature of total destruction. ” Cp. BSk. formula śatana-patana-vikiraṇa-vidhvaṃsana (-dharmatā) AvŚ I. 96 (where S. Speyer in Index considers vikaraṇa the correct form)=Divy 299 (reading cyavanapatana°)=Lal. V, 242. See also S. III, 190 (under vikirati).—2. (adj.) scattering, spending, squandering, f. °ī Sn. 112. (Page 613)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

vikīraṇa (विकीरण).—n S Scattering, strewing, spreading about or abroad.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

vikīraṇa (विकीरण).—n Scattering.

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vikiraṇa (विकिरण).—

1) Scattering, throwing about, dispersing.

2) Spreading abroad.

3) Tearing up.

4) Killing (hiṃsana).

5) Knowledge.

-ṇaḥ The Arka tree.

Derivable forms: vikiraṇam (विकिरणम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Vikiraṇa (विकिरण) or Vikaraṇa.—q.v.; also in sarvasattva-tamo-vikaraṇa- (dispelling the darkness of all creatures)-dharmā- vabhāsa- Gaṇḍavyūha 234.7; (om. sattva) 235.5.

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Vikiraṇa (विकिरण).—(1) (nt., = Pali id., occasionally Sanskrit in meaning strewing about; also vikaraṇa, q.v., which is recorded by [Paia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo] from AMg.), destruction: (kāmāḥ…) vikiraṇa sarvaśubhasya Lalitavistara 242.6 (verse), the destruction (? destroyers) of all that is fair; Mahāvastu ii.269.15 and 278.1, see ucchādana; in the cpds. cited s.v. śatana, q.v. (instead of vikir°, vikaraṇa is read Avadāna-śataka i.50.14; 348.3, see note here, et alibi; also in ms., Śikṣāsamuccaya 229.12); cyavana-patana-vikiraṇa- [Page481-a+ 71] vidhvaṃsanādīni (duḥkhāni) manuṣyāṇāṃ Divyāvadāna 299.22; (see s.v. ucchada) Kāśyapa Parivarta 152.3; in Lalitavistara 4.19 text tuṣitavara- bhavana-vikiraṇa-, no v.l., but read certainly °bhavanā- vataraṇa-, with Tibetan ḥbab pa (vikiraṇa is senseless; Foucaux descente); (2) m., name of a samādhi: Mahāvyutpatti 569; Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 1420.18.

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

Vikiraṇa (विकिरण).—n.

(-ṇaṃ) 1. Scattering, spreading about or abroad. 2. Killing. 3. Knowledge. m.

(-ṇaḥ) Gigantic swallow wort, (Asclepias gigantea.) E. vi before, kṝ to scatter, aff. yu .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vikiraṇa (विकिरण).—i. e. vi-kṛ10 + ana, I. n. Scattering. Ii. m. Gigantic swallow-wort, Asclepias gigantea.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vikiraṇa (विकिरण).—[neuter] scattering.

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

1) Vikiraṇa (विकिरण):—[=vi-kiraṇa] [from vi-kira > vi-kṝ] n. scattering, strewing, [Manvarthamuktāvalī, kullūka bhaṭṭa’s Commentary on manu-smṛti on Manu-smṛti iii, 245]

2) [v.s. ...] m. a [particular] Samādhi, [Buddhist literature] ([varia lectio] vikiriṇa).

3) Vikīraṇa (विकीरण):—[=vi-kīraṇa] [from vi-kira > vi-kṝ] m. Calotropis Gigantea, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vikīraṇa (विकीरण):—[vi-kīraṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. m. Gigantic swallow wort. n. Scattering.

[Sanskrit to German]

Vikirana in German

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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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Vikiraṇa (विकिरण) [Also spelled vikiran]:—(nm) radiation/radiance; diffusion; ~[māpī] radiometer; ~[miti] radiometry; -[vijñāna] radiology; ~[vaijñānika] radiologist.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Vikiraṇa (ವಿಕಿರಣ):—

1) [noun] the act of spreading in different direction or over a wide area.

2) [noun] the process in which energy in the form of rays of light, heat, etc. is sent out through space from atoms and molecules as they undergo internal change; radiation.

3) [noun] the rays sent out; radiant energy.

4) [noun] the act or fact of tearing or mincing into small pieces.

5) [noun] a killing of a person by another or inflicting great pain.

6) [noun] the act, fact or state of knowing; knowledge.

7) [noun] the plant Calotrophis gigantea of Ascipiadaceae family.

8) [noun] (phys.) energy emitted as electromagnetic waves, as gamma or X-rays or as energetic nuclear particles, as neutrons, alpha and beta particles, etc.; radiation.

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Vikīraṇa (ವಿಕೀರಣ):—[noun] = ವಿಕಿರಣ - [vikirana -] 7.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Kirana, Vi.

Starts with: Vikirana-anuvamshika-vijnana, Vikirana-cikitsa, Vikirana-cikitsaka, Vikirana-jivavijnana, Vikirana-matra, Vikirana-pravidhi, Vikirana-upacara, Vikiranacitra, Vikiranamapi-yantra, Vikiranamutra, Vikiranasamadhi, Vikiranavijnana.

Ends with: Laghutarangi-vikirana, Paravaijani-vikirana, Ravikirana, Sauryavikirana, Vimativikirana.

Full-text (+2): Vikiran, Vikiranamutra, Vikira, Vikiranem, Vikiran-pravidhi, Vikirana-cikitsa, Vikirana-jivavijnana, Vikiran-maatra, Vikiran-chikitsa, Vimativikirana, Vikkhipana, Vikarana, Vinardita, Vikiram, Shatana, Saur, Saura, Vikirati, Ucchada, Ucchadana.

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