Abhibhuta, Abhibhūta, Abhibhavita, Abhibhāvita, Abhi-bhavita, Abhi-bhu-ta: 20 definitions
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Alternative spellings of this word include Abhibhut.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत).—The son of Durdama or Durmada:1 of the Rohiṇi family.2
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत) refers to “overcome (with fever)”, according to the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā, belonging to the Pāñcarātra tradition which deals with theology, rituals, iconography, narrative mythology and others.—Accordingly, “If a King, a minister or a common person is overcome with fever (jvara-abhibhūta). [...]”.
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत) refers to “being overcome (with greed and the like)”, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, “Those who are overcome (abhibhūta) with greed and the like do what is forbidden. The goddesses take away from him whatever they have uttered before. Then the goddesses take away from the one who has transgressed Śiva's pledge (whatever) other accomplishment (he may have achieved). The Siddhas of the Śrīsamaya and the rest, who are in the maṇḍala have been mentioned in due order”.
Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Agriculture (Krishi) and Vrikshayurveda (study of Plant life)
Abhibhāvita (अभिभावित) refers to “culturing a seed”, as prescribed by certain bio-organical recipes for plant mutagenesis, according to the Vṛkṣāyurveda by Sūrapāla (1000 CE): an encyclopedic work dealing with the study of trees and the principles of ancient Indian agriculture.—Accordingly, “If a seed is cultured (abhibhāvita) in the oil of Alangium salviifolium, fish, Gangetic porpoise, human being, hog and crocodile and then dried up, sown in a good soil and nourished by coconut water (gale water?) the tree thereof produced flowers and fruits at once”.
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत) refers to “(those elephants becoming) overpowered (by their must-fluid)”, according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā 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 9, “on kinds of must”]: “7. Of old the Unborn (Brahma) created must, and then deposited half of it in (all other) creatures, moving and stationary, and deposited the other half in elephants. So, intoxicated, they fight and become enraged, mastered by it (abhibhūta)”.
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
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
A Thera. He was born in the Rajas family in Vettha (v.l. Vetthipura) and succeeded to his fathers estate. When the Buddha came to the city during a tour, Abhibhuta heard him and invited him for a meal; he later entered the Order and became an arahant.
Three verses ascribed to Abhibhuta occur in the Theragatha, uttered, it is said, when his kinsmen and retainers came to him lamenting that he had left them without a leader (Thag.vv.255-7; ThagA.i.372f). The second of these verses is elsewhere (S.i.156) attributed to Abhibhu, chief disciple of Sikhi Buddha. But in the Milindapanha (245), Nagasena ascribes the second verse to the Buddha, and in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta (D.ii.121) the third verse also is ascribed to him. The second verse is also assigned to the Buddha in the Divyavadana (p.200), but elsewhere in the same books (p.569) it is said to have been uttered by devas.
In a former birth Abhibhuta had been a householder in the time of Vessabhu Buddha and became a believer in the Faith, to which he was led by his friends. When the Buddha died, the populace gathered together to obtain relics, but Abhibhuta, having quenched the pyre with fragrant water, was first able to take those which he desired (ThagA.i.372).
He is evidently to be identified with Citakanibbapaka Thera of the Apadana (ii.408).
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
abhibhūta : (pp. of abhibhavati) overpowered; vanquished.
Abhibhūta, (pp. of abhibhavati) overpowered, overwhelmed, vanquished D.I, 121; S.I, 137 (jāti-jarā°); II, 228 (lābhasakkāra-silokena); A.I, 202 (pāpakehi dhammehi); J.I, 189; PvA.14, 41 (= pareta), 60 (= upagata), 68, 77, 80 (= pareta). Often neg. an° unconquered, e. g. Sn.934; Nd1 400; & see phrase under abhibhū. (Page 67)
1) abhibhavita (အဘိဘဝိတ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[abhi+bhū+ta]
[အဘိ+ဘူ+တ]
2) abhibhūta (အဘိဘူတ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[abhi+bhū+ta]
[အဘိ+ဘူ+တ]
[Pali to Burmese]
abhibhavita—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) လွှမ်းမိုး-နှိပ်နင်း-အပ်သော၊ မလှုပ်ရှား-မထကြွ-မသောင်းကျန်း-အောင် ပြုအပ်သော။ (ခ) လွှမ်းမိုး-နှိပ်နင်း-အပ်ပြီးသော၊ မလှုပ်ရှား-မထကြွ-မသောင်းကျန်း-အောင်ပြုအပ်ပြီးသော။ (၂) လွှမ်းမိုး-နှိပ်နင်း-ပြီးသော၊ မလှုပ်ရှား-မထကြွ-မသောင်းကျန်း-အောင် ပြုပြီးသော။ အဘိဘဝတိ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Dominated-subjugated, made to be inactive-non-vibrant-non-energetic. (b) Having been dominated-subjugated, made to be inactive-non-vibrant-non-energetic. (2) Having been dominated-subjugated, properly finished to be inactive-non-vibrant-non-energetic. Also, look at the definition.
abhibhūta—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) လွှမ်းမိုး-နှိပ်စက်-အပ်သော။ (ခ) လွှမ်းမိုး-နှိပ်နင်း-အပ်သော။ (ဂ) လွှမ်းမိုးအပ်-မလှုပ်ရှားနိုင်အောင် ဖမ်းယူအပ်-သော။ (ဃ) လွှမ်းမိုးအပ်-ရှုံးစေအပ်-တဖန် ခေါင်းထောင်ခွင့် မပေးခြင်းအားဖြင့် လှုပ်ရှားခြင်းမရှိ ငြိမ်ဝင်စေအပ်-သော။ (ပု) (၂) အဘိဘူတ မင်းသား၊ (အဘိဘူတမထေရ်အလောင်း)။ အဘိဘူဘတ္ထေရ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Dominated - oppressed - imposed. (b) Dominated - crushed - imposed. (c) Captured to make it unable to move - imposed. (d) By not granting permission to move as it is dominated - subjected to a state of inactivity and quietness. (2) Abhibhuta prince, (Abhibhuta Maharalaung). Also look at Abhibhubatthera.
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
abhibhūta (अभिभूत).—p S Defeated.
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
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत).—mfn.
(-taḥ-tā-taṃ) 1. Humbled, surpassed, defeated, subdued. 2. Ignorant. 3. Overcome with feelings or wants, with passion, with hunger, &c. 4. Injured, aggrieved. E. abhi, and bhūta been, being; part. past.
1) Abhibhūta (अभिभूत):—[=abhi-bhūta] [from abhi-bhū] mfn. surpassed, defeated, subdued, humbled
2) [v.s. ...] overcome, aggrieved, injured.
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.
(-taḥ-tā-tam) 1) Overpowered, de-feated, subdued; e. g. Bhaṭṭik.: daityābhibhūtasya yuvāmavoḍhaṃ magnasya dorbhirbhuvanasya bhāram.
2) Overcome with, aggrieved by; e. g. Mahābh. Vanap.: hṛcchayenābhibhūtātmā bhīmasenamakāmayat; or Suśruta: tamobhibhūte tasmiṃstu nidrā viśati dehinām; or pittābhibhūte srehe &c.; or pitṛgrahābhibhūtaḥ.
3) Made latent; (compare abhibhava 2.); e. g. Gauḍapāda on the Sāṅkhyakār.: yadā sattvena rajastamasī abhibhūte tadā &c.; or tamasābhibhūte sattvarajasī &c.
4) Humiliated, humbled, surpassed; e. g. Bhaṭṭik.: tapovanaṃ prādhyayanābhibhūtasamuccaraccārupatatriśiñjam.
5) Confused, bewildered, perplexed; Jatādhara (E. I. H. 217): itikartavyatāmūḍhe vihastavyākulāvubhau . abhibhūtobhimāyaśca vikrūro (? Rādhāk.: viklavo) vihvalo pi ca. E. bhū with abhi, kṛt aff. kta.
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत):—[abhi-bhūta] (taḥ-tā-taṃ) a. Humbled; defeated; ignorant.
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Abhibhūya.
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
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत) [Also spelled abhibhut]:—(a) overwhelmed; overpowered; overawed.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Abhibhūta (ಅಭಿಭೂತ):—
1) [adjective] overpowered; defeated; given way to; submitted; succumbed.
2) [adjective] addicted to.
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Abhibhūta (ಅಭಿಭೂತ):—
1) [noun] a man is defeated.
2) [noun] a man who is humiliated.
3) [noun] a man in distress.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Abhibhūta (अभिभूत):—adj. overwhelmed;
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Bhu, Bhavita, Abhi, Luo, Bhuta, Da, Ta.
Starts with: Abhibhutabhava, Abhibhutacitta, Abhibhutacittata, Abhibhutakayata, Abhibhutata, Abhibhutatta, Abhibhutatthera.
Full-text (+78): Anabhibhuta, Shokabhibhuta, Jarabhibhuta, Maranabhibhuta, Vayvabhibhuta, Nivaranabhibhuta, Unhabhibhuta, Kuttharogadhibhuta, Maranabhayabhibhuta, Gelannabhibhuta, Kuttharogabhibhuta, Vicikicchabhibhuta, Abhibhutabhava, Abhibhutatta, Abhibhutatthera, Abhibhutata, Ayasabhibhuta, Ghammaparilahabhibhuta, Jighacchabhibhuta, Kodhalobhabhibhuta.
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