Abhivimana, Abhivimāna: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAbhivimāna (अभिविमान).—a. Of unlimited dimensions, an epithet of the Supreme Being; यस्त्वेतमेवम् प्रादेशमात्रमभिविमानमात्मानम् वैश्वानरमुपास्ते (yastvetamevam prādeśamātramabhivimānamātmānam vaiśvānaramupāste) Chānd. Up.5.18.1.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhivimāna (अभिविमान):—[=abhi-vimāna] mfn. endowed with the faculty called abhimāna (‘self-reference’), [Chāndogya-upaniṣad]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhivimāna (अभिविमान):—[tatpurusha compound] m.
(-naḥ) The same as abhimāna 1. q. v. and therefore used in the Chhāndogya Upanishad as an epithet of Vaiśvānara or the worldly form of the Supreme Soul, since he conceives the whole of mankind as referring to him exclusively (viz. ‘I am Brahman’); Chh. Up.: yastvetamevaṃ prādeśamātramabhivimānamātmānaṃ vaiśvānaramupāste sa sarveṣu lokeṣu sarveṣu bhūteṣu sarveṣvātmasvannamatti (Śaṅkara: pratyagātmatayābhivimīyatehamiti jñāyata ityabhivimānaḥ ‘because it is conceived as Supreme Soul under the notion of I, it is called Abhivimāna’; and comp. the passage of the Vedānta Sāra where Vaiśvānara is defined as the Supreme Soul conceived as wordly Totatily: etatsamaṣṭyupahitaṃ caitanyaṃ vaiśvānaro virāḍiti cocyate sarvanarābhimānitvāt, this passage and esp. the latter word being founded on the quoted words of the Chh. Upan.; as Vaiśvānara is the Supreme Soul in its reference to the world there is a tendency to equivocation in the Upan., for prādeśa which means there ‘space’ in general, might convey the notion of limitedness—in its sense ‘span’ —and abhivimāna remind of vimāna ‘absence of measure’; or abhivimāna might be taken in the sense ‘creator’, scil. of the universe; these possibilities are alluded to by Śankara in his commentary on the Vedānta Sūtras, but the first explanation is clearly that adopted in preference by him and the Vedāntists; comp. Śaṅk. on the Vedānta Sūtra (I. 2. 24.): vaiśvānaraḥ sādhāraṇaśabdaviśeṣāt where the given passage is alleged, and on the Ved. Sūtra: āmananti cainamasmin (I. 2. 32.) where he observes: abhivimānaśrutiḥ pratyagātmatābhiprāyā . pratyagātmatayā sarvaiḥ prāṇibhirabhivimīyata ityabhivimānaḥ (i. e. 1. as above) . abhigato vāyaṃ pratyagātmatvādvimānaśca mānaviyogādityabhivimānaḥ (i. e. 2. ‘resorted to, because he has the nature of the Supreme Soul, and illimited, because he is devoid of measure’) . abhivimimīte vā sarvaṃ jagatkāraṇatvādityabhivimānaḥ (i. e. 3. ‘creator’) . tasmātparameśvaro vaiśvānara iti siddham; Govindānanda: ābhimukhyenāhaṃ brahmeti vimimīyate jñāyata ityabhivimānaḥ pratyagātmā (i. e. 1.) . abhigataścāsau vimānaḥ sarvasvarūpatve satyānantyāt . mānamatra parimāṇam (i. e. 2.) . abhivimimīta iti nirmimīte (i. e. 3.) . tasmādvaiśvānaravākyamupāsye brahmaṇi samanvitamiti siddham. E. 1. (and 3.) mā with vi and abhi, kṛt aff. lyuṭ; (2. abhi and vimāna).
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