In Hinduism

Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Abhojyānna (अभोज्यान्न) refers to “food that should not be consumed”, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] Adopting external sectarian emblems such as [carrying] one staff, three staffs and so on; [wearing] matted hair, ashes and the like; plucking out the hair and nakedness; wearing ochre robes; pretending to be mad, adopting the way of a non-vedic religion and [consuming] food and drink that should not be consumed [e.g., abhojyānna], [are all] seen in various religions. [...]”.

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

abhōjyānna (अभोज्यान्न).—a S (a, bhōjya, anna) Of whose hands food is forbidden to be eaten.

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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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abhojyānna (अभोज्यान्न).—[adjective] whose food is not to be eaten.

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

Abhojyānna (अभोज्यान्न):—[from a-bhojya > a-bhoktṛ] mfn. one whose food is not allowed to be eaten, [Manu-smṛti iv, 221.]

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

Abhojyānna (अभोज्यान्न):—[bahuvrihi compound] m. f. n.

(-nnaḥ-nnā-nnam) One whose food must not be eaten (because eating it makes impure or brings misfortune); e. g. Manu: ya ete (those mentioned in the preceding verses) nye tvabhojyānnāḥ kramaśaḥ parikīrtitāḥ . teṣāṃ tvagasthiromāṇi vadantyannaṃ manīṣiṇaḥ ‘…their food, the wise say, is (like) skin, bones and hair’. Such persons are, for instance, an insane man, a wrathful person, a thief, a public singer, a carpenter, a eunuch, a woman in her courses or in childbed, a backbiter, a tailor, a blacksmith, a physician, a libidinous woman, a usurer &c.; see Manu 4. 205-221.; Yājnav. 1. 160-168.—One who has unknowingly eaten the food of such persons must fast during three days; but, having eaten it knowingly he must perform the penance called Kṛṣchhra, as if he had tasted seminal impurity, ordure or urine; according to Manu 4. 222. In another verse, however, Manu (11. 152.) is satisfied, if such a sinner drinks barleygruel for seven days and nights (see the quot. s. v. abhojya). Comp. Raghunand. I. p. 317 ff. E. abhojya and anna.

[Sanskrit to German]

Abhojyanna 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.

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Partial matches: Anna, Abhojya.

Full-text: Abhojya.

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