Anamaka, Anāmaka, Anama-ka: 12 definitions
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Anamaka means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali. 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.
In Hinduism
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Anāmaka (अनामक) (lit. “the nameless”) refers to “(the silence of the) Supreme Brahman”, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, “The New Moon (Amā) dissolves away into the half-measure and the half-measure into the plane of the Nameless [i.e., anāmaka]. O god, the Nameless [i.e., anāmaka] is Kula where the lord is Kuleśvara. I praise that Kula, the essence of Kaula, the venerable ocean of knowledge”.
Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Anāmaka (अनामक) refers to “(that which is) unnamed” and is used to describe Brahma, according to the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣatkārikā 3.35cd-36.—Accordingly, while discussing Brahma (without attributes): “That very [mind, free of thought and restrained,] is fearless Brahma, [which is] the light of gnosis [pervading] everywhere. [It is] unborn, devoid of sleep and dreaming, unnamed (anāmaka), formless, manifested [all] at once and omniscient [This statement] is not figurative in any way”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Anāmaka (अनामक).—a. [na. ba. svārthe kan] Nameless, infamous.
-kaḥ, -kam = अनामन् (anāman) above.
Anāmaka (अनामक).—mfn.
(-kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) Nameless, nofeless. m.
(-kaḥ) The intercalary menth. n.
(-kaṃ) Piles or hœmorrhoids. E. a bad, nāmaka from nāman a name, with kan aff.
1) Anāmaka (अनामक):—[=a-nāmaka] [from a-nāman] mfn. nameless, infamous
2) [v.s. ...] m. the intercalary month
3) [v.s. ...] n. piles, haemorrhoids.
Anāmaka (अनामक):—[bahuvrihi compound] I. m. f. n.
(-kaḥ-kā-kam) 1) Nameless.
2) Hav-ing a bad name. Ii. m.
(-kaḥ) An intercalary month. See malamāsa. Iii. n.
(-kam) Piles or hœmorrhoids. E. a priv. or deter. and nāman, samāsānta aff. kap.
Anāmaka (अनामक):—[a-nāmaka] (kaṃ) 1. n. Piles. a. Nameless.
Anāmaka (अनामक):—(von 3. a + nāman)
1) adj. namenlos. —
2) m. Schaltmonat [MĀLAMĀSATATTVA im Śabdakalpadruma] —
3) n. Hämorrhoiden [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma]
Anāmaka (अनामक):——
1) m. Schaltmonat. —
2) *n. Hämorrhoiden.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Anāmaka (ಅನಾಮಕ):—
1) [adjective] having no name; nameless.
2) [adjective] not widely known; not famous.
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Anāmaka (ಅನಾಮಕ):—
1) [noun] the finger nearest the smallest one in the human hand; the ring finger.
2) [noun] a painful swelling of a vein in the region of the anus, often with bleeding; haemorrhoids; piles.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Pali-English dictionary
1) anāmaka (အနာမက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[na+āmaka]
[န+အာမက]
2) anāmaka (အနာမက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[anāma+ka]
[အနာမ+က]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) anāmaka—
(Burmese text): အမည်မရှိသော၊ သူ။
(Auto-Translation): Nameless, he.
2) anāmaka—
(Burmese text): သူသေကောင် စွန့်ပစ်ရာသုဿာန်-မဟုတ်သော-မဖြစ်ဘူးသော-အရပ်။ အနာမတ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): He is not a place of abandonment but a physical state. Look at the wound.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Amaka, Namaka, Anaman, Ka, A, Na.
Full-text (+0): Ardhanamaka, Unnamed, Named, Namaka.
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