Agamana, Āgamana: 26 definitions
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Agamana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Aagman.
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Āgamana (आगमन) refers to the “arrival (of the mountains)”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.37 (“The letter of betrothal is dispatched”).—Accordingly, as Himavat prepared the wedding of Menā and Śiva: “[...] Then he began collecting foodstuffs and other requisite articles intended for the performance of the marriage. [...] Delighted in every respect and eagerly awaiting the arrival of his kinsmen he was excited with various emotions. The invitees came there along with their wives, children and attendants. O celestial sage, listen to a detailed narration of the arrival of those mountains (giri-āgamana). [...]”.
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.
Dharmashastra (religious law)
Āgamana (आगमन) [=vadhu-gṛhāgamana] refers to “going (to the bride’s house)” and represents one of the various Marriage Rites (saṃskāra) according to the Saṅkhyāyana-gṛhya-sūtra I.12.1.—The main outlines of the marriage saṃskāra show a remarkable continuity for several thousand years from the times of the Rig Veda down to modern times.
Dharmashastra (धर्मशास्त्र, dharmaśāstra) contains the instructions (shastra) regarding religious conduct of livelihood (dharma), ceremonies, jurisprudence (study of law) and more. It is categorized as smriti, an important and authoritative selection of books dealing with the Hindu lifestyle.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Āgamana (आगमन) is the name of a Vākchomā (‘verbal secrect sign’) which has its meaning defined as ‘kutaḥ’ according to chapter 8 of the 9th-century Vajraḍākamahātantrarāja, a scripture belonging to the Buddhist Cakrasaṃvara (or Saṃvara) scriptural cycle. These Vākchomās (viz., āgamana) are meant for verbal communication and can be regarded as popular signs, since they can be found in the three biggest works of the Cakrasaṃvara literature.
Āgamana (आगमन) means “to return (again)”, according to the Guru Mandala Worship (maṇḍalārcana) ritual often performed in combination with the Cakrasaṃvara Samādhi, which refers to the primary pūjā and sādhanā practice of Newah Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna Buddhists in Nepal.—Accordingly, “Oṃ you have done the aim of all beings, granting the success that follows, Go away, to disperse in the Buddha sphere and return again (punar-āgamana)! Oṃ Āḥ Hūṃ dismissal of the vajra mandala Mūḥ”.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Agamana (अगमन) [=āgamana?] refers to “comings”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “Fool, you must understand, in reality, substance is not acknowledged in a mass of foam, the trunk of a plantain tree or in the body of human beings. The planets, moon, sun, stars and seasons go and come [com.—gamanāgamana—‘goings and comings’] [but] certainly for embodied souls bodies do not [go and come] even in a dream”.
Synonyms: Ayāta, Agata, Saṃpāta.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
āgamana : (nt.) oncoming; arrival.
Āgamana, (nt.) (fr. āgacchati, Sk. same) oncoming, arrival, approach A.III, 172; DA.I, 160; PvA.4, 81; Sdhp.224, 356. an° not coming or returning J.I, 203, 264. (Page 95)
[Pali to Burmese]
1) agamana—
(Burmese text): မသွားခြင်း။
(Auto-Translation): Not going.
2) āgamana—
(Burmese text): (၁) လာခြင်း၊ လာရောက်ခြင်း။ (၂) ဖြစ်ခြင်း။ အာဂမ-(၁-က,ခ)-ကြည့်။ (၃) ထိုးထွင်း၍ သိမြင်ခြင်း။ (၄) ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာရာ အကြောင်းဖြစ်သော အာဂုံတရား။ (က) သုညတ-စသော နာမည် ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာရာ အကြောင်းရင်းဖြစ်သော တရား (ဝိပဿနာ၊ မဂ်)။ (ခ) မဂ်ဖိုလ် ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာကြောင်းတရား (ဝိပဿနာ) (ဂ) ဖိုလ်ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာကြောင်းတရား (မဂ်)။ (ဃ) အာဂုံပရိယတ္တိတရား၊ မဂ်ဉာဏ်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းဖြစ်သော ခန္ဓာအာယတန ဓာတ်တရား၊ ယင်းတရားတို့ကို ကြားနာခြင်း သင်ယူခြင်း၊ မေးမြန်းခြင်း။ (င) ဈာန်၏ ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာရာ အကြောင်းရင်းဖြစ်သော-ဈာန်ရနိုင်လောက်သော- ကသိုဏ်း စီးဖြန်း ပွါးများအားထုတ်ပုံ နည်းလမ်း။ (စ) ဈာန်သမာပတ်ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာရန် ပွါးများ အားထုတ်-ခြင်းကိစ္စ-ရာအခါ။ (ဆ) ပဌမဈာန် စသော အောက်မောက် ဈာန်တို့၏ အာဂုံတရား၊ ယင်းဈာန်တို့ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာကြောင်းဖြစ်သော ပဋိပဒါအဘိညာဉ်။ (ဇ) မဂ်ပညာဖြစ်ပေါ်လာကြောင်းဖြစ်သော ပဋိပဒါအဘိညာဉ်။ (ဈ) မဂ္ဂသမ္မာသတိ ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာကြောင်းဖြစ်သော လောကီသမ္မာသတိ။ (ည) နောက်စိတ်ဖြစ်လာရာအကြောင်း-နောက်စိတ်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း-ဖြစ်သောရှေ့စိတ် (စိတ္တာဓိပတိ)။ (ဋ) ပထဝီဒေဝတာဟူသော နာမည်-ပေါ်ပေါက်လာရာအကြောင်း-ရကြောင်း-ဖြစ်သော ပထဝီကသိဏ ဘာဝနာ။ (၅) ကုသိုလ် အကုသိုလ် ဖြစ်ကြောင်းဖြစ်သော နှလုံးသွင်းဆင်ခြင်မှု။ (တိ) (၆) လာအပ်သော၊ ကြွလာအပ်သော (လမ်းခရီး)။ အာဂမ-(၄)-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Coming, arriving. (2) Being. Refer to Arguing (1-a, b). (3) Understanding through insight. (4) The principle that causes emergence. (a) The principle that causes the emergence of a zero-entity name (metaphysics, logic). (b) The principle of emergence of logic (metaphysics). (c) The principle of emergence of factors (logic). (d) The principle of spiritual agent's existence resulting from body substance's existence, and learning, questioning about those principles. (e) The method of extraction of core elements from storage pertaining to the emergence causation of the entity's qualities. (f) The matter of core elements exerting to cause the emergence of qualities. (g) The essence of principles concerning root qualities, related to the emergence of those qualities and their descriptions in metaphysical texts. (h) The description in metaphysical texts about the emergence of logic. (i) The worldly awareness that leads to the emergence of common awareness. (j) The cause and emergence of subsequent mind addressed as the former mind (mental designation). (k) The origin of the name 'Earth deity' and its emergence in relation to earthly context. (5) The heart's reflection termed as merit or demerit. (6) Concerning the road taken, arriving on a journey. Refer to Arguing (4).
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
āgamana (आगमन).—n (S) Approaching, arriving, coming to.
āgamana (आगमन).—n Approaching.
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
Āgamana (आगमन).—
1) Coming, approaching, arrival; भरतागमनं पुनः (bharatāgamanaṃ punaḥ) R.12.24.
2) Return, returning.
3) Acquisition, getting into; एतत्ते सर्वमाख्यातं वैरस्यागमनं महत् (etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ vairasyāgamanaṃ mahat) Rām.
4) Arising, birth.
5) Approaching a woman for sexual intercourse.
Derivable forms: āgamanam (आगमनम्).
Āgamana (आगमन).—(nt.; = Sanskrit and Pali āgama), traditional or authoritative doctrine: Mahāvastu i.218.20 = ii.21.2 (verse) atra āgamanaṃ śṛṇu, on this point hear what the doctrine is.
Āgamana (आगमन).—n.
(-naṃ) Arriving, coming. E. āṅ before gam to go, lyuṭ aff.
Āgamana (आगमन).—[ā-gam + ana], n. 1. Coming, arrival, [Nala] 3, 21. 2. Origin, [Rāmāyaṇa] 4, 2, 29. 3. Sexual intercourse, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 5, 399.
Āgamana (आगमन).—[neuter] coming, arrival, appearance.
1) Āgamana (आगमन):—[=ā-gamana] [from ā-gam] n. (ifc. f(ā). , [Kathāsaritsāgara]) coming, approaching, arriving, returning, [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Mahābhārata] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] arising, [Rāmāyaṇa iv, 9, 29]
3) [v.s. ...] confirmation (as of the sense), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa]
Āgamana (आगमन):—[ā-gamana] (naṃ) 1. n. Coming.
Āgamana (आगमन):—(wie eben) n.
1) das Kommen (auch Wiederkommen) [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 15, 2, 8. 19, 5, 17.] yāvadāgamanaṃ mama [Mahābhārata 1, 2876.] [Nalopākhyāna 3, 21. 21, 23.] [Viśvāmitra’s Kampf 8, 15.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 18, 13.] mamehāgamanam [Pañcatantra 194, 24.] anāgamanāya um nicht wiederzukehren [89, 8.] = bhūyo nāgamanāya [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 215.] Mit dem subj. compon. [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 38. 3, 15. 35.] [Śākuntala 60, 18.] [Raghuvaṃśa 12, 24.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 12, 120.] [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 51.] mit dem obj.: madgṛhāgamanena [Pañcatantra 214, 5.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 59] in der Unterschr. am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Kathāsaritsāgara 22, 106.] — das Kommen, Entstehen: etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ vairasyāgamanaṃ mahat [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 9, 29.] —
2) das Besuchen einer Frau, fleischlicher Umgang: antyāgamana [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 399.]
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Āgamana (आगमन):—
1) tavāgamanato (āgamavato [Indralokāgamana 5, 23]) vṛtte svargasya mahotsave [Mahābhārata 3, 1839.] labdhārthāgamana das Eintreffen [Sāhityadarpana 397.] —
2) zu streichen; s. oben antyāgamana .
Āgamana (आगमन):—n. (adj. Comp. f. ā) —
1) das Ankommen , Ankunft ; das Wiederkommen. —
2) das Eintreffen. —
3) Entstehung. —
4) Bestätigung [Sāhityadarpaṇa 397.]
Āgamana (आगमन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Āgamaṇa.
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
Āgamana (आगमन) [Also spelled aagman]:—(nm) arrival; approach; induction.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Āgamaṇa (आगमण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Āgamana.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Āgamana (ಆಗಮನ):—[noun] the act of coming; arrival.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Āgamana (आगमन):—n. 1. coming; arrival; approach; appearance; 2. return; returning; 3. acquisition; getting into; 4. origin; 5. (Logic) induction;
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.
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