Alternative spellings of this word include Vyamoh.

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (kavya)

Vyāmoha (व्यामोह) refers to a “deluded (desire)”, according to Bāṇa’s Kādambarī (p. 226).—There are apparently several Tantric rites that Bāṇa pejoratively associates with the priest: [...] “he had written down the [work known as ] the ‘Doctrine of Mahākāla’ instructed to him by a withered Mahāpāśupata mendicant”; “he was one in whom the disease of talking about [finding] treasure had arisen”; “in him the wind [disease] of alchemy had grown”; “he entertained the deluded desire (manoratha-vyāmohena) of becoming the lover of a Yakṣa maiden”.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

vyāmōha (व्यामोह).—m S Bewilderment or stupefaction: also oblivion, loss of remembrance.

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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

Vyāmoha (व्यामोह).—

1) Infatuation.

2) Bewilderment, embarrassment, perplexity; कंसस्यालमभूज्जितं जितमिति व्यामोह- कोलाहलः (kaṃsasyālamabhūjjitaṃ jitamiti vyāmoha- kolāhalaḥ) Gītagovinda 1; Kāv.3.11.

Derivable forms: vyāmohaḥ (व्यामोहः).

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

Vyāmoha (व्यामोह).—m.

(-haḥ) Embarrassment, bewilderment.

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

Vyāmoha (व्यामोह).—i. e. vi-ā-muh + a, m. Error, foolishness, [Prabodhacandrodaya, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 76, 9.

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

Vyāmoha (व्यामोह).—[masculine] unconsciousness, bewilderment, error, uncertainty.

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

1) Vyāmoha (व्यामोह):—[=vy-āmoha] [from vyā-muh] m. loss of consciousness, mental confusion, bewilderment, embarrassment, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] (ifc.), error or uncertainty regarding, [Kāvyādarśa; Manvarthamuktāvalī, kullūka bhaṭṭa’s Commentary on manu-smṛti; Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra [Scholiast or Commentator]]

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

Vyāmoha (व्यामोह) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vāmoha.

[Sanskrit to German]

Vyamoha 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

Vyāmoha (व्यामोह) [Also spelled vyamoh]:—(nm) illusion, mental confusion; bewilderment; ~[hita] under an illusion; mentally confused, bewildered.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Vyāmōha (ವ್ಯಾಮೋಹ):—

1) [noun] excessive love.

2) [noun] strong liking (often that lacks judgement oris foolish) for or interest in something, often lacking sound judgement; infatuation.

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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: Vy, Amoha.

Starts with: Vyamohana, Vyamohavidravana.

Ends with: Durvyamoha.

Full-text: Vyamohavidravana, Vyamoh, Vyamohin, Vyamohita, Vyamohitacitta, Yamukam, Vamoha, Uccheda, Muh.

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