Amiva, Amīvā: 8 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAmīvā (अमीवा).—[am-van-īḍāgamaḥ nipātaḥ] Ved.
1) Affliction, sickness, disease.
2) Distress, terror.
3) A demon, tormenting spirit.
-vaḥ An enemy, one who afflicts or torments;
-vam 1 Affliction, distress, pain, injury, कच्चिद् बुधः स्वस्त्यनमीव आस्ते (kaccid budhaḥ svastyanamīva āste) Bhāgavata 3.1.32. कुठारैश्चिच्छिदुः क्रुद्धाः स्मरन्तोऽमीवमस्य तत् (kuṭhāraiścicchiduḥ kruddhāḥ smaranto'mīvamasya tat) Bhāgavata 4.28.26.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAmīva (अमीव).—n.
(-vaṃ) 1. Sin. 2. Pain.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryAmīva (अमीव).—[am + īva], n. Pain, [Rāmāyaṇa] 3, 59, 23.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryAmīva (अमीव).—[neuter] pain, disease, distress, grief; [feminine] amīvā the same, concr. tormentor, fiend.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Amīva (अमीव):—n. (√am), pain, grief, [Rāmāyaṇa; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
2) Amīvā (अमीवा):—[from amīva] f. distress, terror, fright, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā]
3) [v.s. ...] tormenting spirit, demon, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda]
4) [v.s. ...] affliction, disease, [Ṛg-veda]
5) Āmīvā (आमीवा):—[=ā-mīvā] f. disease, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryAmīva (अमीव):—[a-mīva] (vaṃ) 1. n. Sin; pain.
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Starts with: Amivacatana, Amivahan, Amivant, Amivat, Amivatka.
Ends with: Adhmatamiva, Alalatantubaddhamiva, Anamiva, Apamiva, Samiva.
Full-text: Anamiva, Amivacatana, Amivahan, Catana, Urvaruka, Madavant, Tamishici, Gayasphana, Abhibha, Anira, Han, Sara.
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita (by Nayana Sharma)
Disease in the Vedas < [Chapter 4]
Rudra-Shiva concept (Study) (by Maumita Bhattacharjee)
2.9. Rudra as Anamīva < [Chapter 6a - The Epithets of Rudra-Śiva]
Journal of the European Ayurvedic Society (by Inge Wezler)
Indo-Iranian Concepts of Disease and Cure < [Volume 3 (1993)]
Vedic influence on the Sun-worship in the Puranas (by Goswami Mitali)
Part 26 - The Ādityas < [Chapter 2 - Salient Traits of the Solar Divinities in the Veda]
Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita (by Laxmi Maji)
Gynaecology and Pediatrics in the Atharvaveda < [Chapter 3 - Diseases and Remedial measures (described in Atharvaveda)]
Maṇis (medical amulets) in the Atharva Veda < [Chapter 3 - Diseases and Remedial measures (described in Atharvaveda)]
Medical Science in the Vedas < [Chapter 2 - The nature of treatment for diseases in the Ancient era]