Abhinyasa, Abhinyāsa: 8 definitions

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Ayurveda (science of life)

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Source: Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts: Volume 12 (1898) (ay)

Abhinyāsa (अभिन्यास) or Abhinyāsahara-rasa refers to one of the topics discussed in the Yogāmṛta, a Sanskrit manuscript collected in volume 4 of the catalogue “Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (first series)” by Rajendralal Mitra (1822–1891), who was one of the first English-writing historians dealing with Indian culture and heritage.—The Yogāmṛta is a large Ayurvedic compilation dealing with the practice of medicine and therapeutics authored by Gopāla Sena, Kavirāja, of Dvārandhā. It is dated to the 18th century and contains 11,700 ślokas.—The catalogue includes the term—Abhinyāsa-hara-rasa in its ‘subject-matter list’ or Viṣaya (which lists topics, chapters and technical terms). The complete entry reads: abhinyāsahararasaḥ .

Unclassified Ayurveda definitions

Source: Indian Journal of History of Science: Jvaranirnaya: a rare monograph on diagnosis of fevers from the pre-colonial era

Abhinyāsa (अभिन्यास) is mentioned as a synonym for “fever” (Jvara), according to the Tridoṣaja-Prakaraṇa section of the Jvaranirṇaya: an Ayurvedic manuscript dealing exclusively with types of jvara (fevers) written by Sri Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita in the 16th century CE.—The author mentions that the Tridoṣajaprakaraṇa section is similar to the explanations of Vāgbhaṭa. Names and symptoms of jvara which are uncommon such as Abhinyāsa are mentioned.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Abhinyasa in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Abhinyāsa (अभिन्यास).—A kind of fever.

Derivable forms: abhinyāsaḥ (अभिन्यासः).

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

Abhinyāsa (अभिन्यास):—[=abhi-nyāsa] [from abhiny-as] m. a kind of fever, [Bhāvaprakāśa]

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

Abhinyāsa (अभिन्यास):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-saḥ) (Literally: Combination, mix-ture; esp. in Medicine.) A variety of fever, viz. a mixed remittent or synochus fever, supposed to be produced by the morbid state of the three temperamental elements, air, bile and phlegm collectively; the patient is described by Suśruta as ‘being neither too warm nor too cold, not quite conscious, wandering in his mind, hoarse, with a sharp taste, dry throat, void of perspiration and not having the natural excretions, hiccupping, without appetite, dull, panting (or sighing), lying prostrate, impeded in speech, drowsy and with contracted limbs’; the cure of this fever is believed either very difficult or impossible. It is also called hataujas, as the patient looses his strength by this fever, or from the ‘combination’ of the causes which produce it, sannipātajvara, sarvātmakajvara, sarvadoṣasamutthajvara, sarvajajvara, sarvajvara. E. as (cl. 4.) with ni and abhi, kṛt aff. ghañ; scil. jvara.

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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.

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Hindi dictionary

[«previous next»] — Abhinyasa in Hindi glossary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Abhinyāsa (अभिन्यास) [Also spelled abhinyas]:—(nm) lay-out.

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