In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

1a) Anapāna (अनपान).—See dadhivāhana.^*

• * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 74. 102.

1b) The son of Aṅga and father of Diviratha.^*

• * Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 18. 15; Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 74. 103.

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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.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Dhamma Dana: Pali English Glossary

N Air entering and going out (while breathing).

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Ānāpāna (आनापान) refers to “the inbreath and the outbreath” according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XVI).

In the inbreath and the outbreath (ānāpāna) there are also sixteen aspects:

1. attention to the inbreath;
2. attention to the outbreath;
3. attention to the long breath and the short breath;
4. knowledge that one is breathing in the entire body;
5. knowledge that one is breathing while having eliminated the bodily factors;
6. knowledge that one is breathing while experiencing joy;
7. knowing that one is breathing while experiencing bliss;
8. knowledge that one is breathing while feeling the mental factors;
9. knowledge that one is breathing while gladdening the mind;
10. knowledge that one is breathing while concentrating the mind;
11. knowledge that one is breathing while liberating the mind;
12. knowledge that one is breathing while contemplating impermanence;
13. knowledge that one is breathing while contemplating disappearance;
14. knowledge that one is breathing while contemplating renunciation of desire;
15. knowledge that one is breathing while contemplating cessation;
16. knowledge that one is breathingwhile contemplating renunciation.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Anapana in India is the name of a plant defined with Caryota urens in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Caryota urens Jacq. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Species Plantarum
· Fragmenta Botanica. (1800)
· Taxon (1979)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

āṇāpana : (nt.) the act of commanding.

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āṇāpāṇa : (nt.) inhaled and exhaled breath.

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ānāpāna : (nt.) inhaled and exhaled breath.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Āṇāpana, (nt.) (abstr. fr. āṇāpeti) ordering or being, ordered, command, order PvA.135. (Page 97)

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Ānāpāna, (nt.) (āna + apāna, cpds. of an to breathe) in haled & exhaled breath, inspiration & respiration S.V, 132, 311 sq.; J.I, 58; Ps.I, 162 (°kathā); usually in cpd. °sati concentration by in-breathing & out-breathing (cp. Man. of Mystic 70) M.I, 425 (cp. D.II, 291); III, 82; Vin.III, 70; A.I, 30; It.80; Ps.I, 166, 172, 185 (°samādhi); Nd² 466 B (id.); Miln.332; Vism.111, 197, 266 sq.; SnA 165. See detail under sati. (Page 100)

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Ānāpāna (आनापान).—(= Pali id.), breath (see below): °na-bhā-vanā-vidhiḥ Mahāvyutpatti 1165; °na-smṛti (= Pali °na-sati), mind- [Page096-b+ 71] fulness of breathing, Mahāvyutpatti 1166; Bodhisattvabhūmi 110.24; 204.26; 396.22; Udānavarga xv.1; °nānusmṛti, id., Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 60.8; on this and Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 1443.8 (where text ānāpā-nusmṛtir) see s.v. anusmṛti. The word is an old dvandva; āna (= prāṇa) plus apāna (compare Sanskrit prāṇāpāna, on which see G.W. Brown, JAOS 39.104 ff.). In Pali commentarial diction replaced by assāsa-passāsa (= āśvāsa-praśvāsa, q.v.). Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti 1166 ānāpāna (-smṛtiḥ) renders dbugs rṅub pa daṅ ḥbyuṅ ba, breathing in and out; the same or related terms are used for āśvāsa and praśvāsa. It is clear that Tibetan understands āna = āśvāsa as inbreathing, apāna = pra- śvāsa as outbreathing. There is [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] evidence supporting this interpretation of āśvāsa-praśvāsa, q.v.

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

Anāpāna (अनापान):—[=an-āpāna] m. Name of a prince (son of Aṅga).

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

Anāpāna (अनापान):—[bahuvrihi compound] m.

(-naḥ) The proper name of a prince; according to one authority, the son of Anga, a descendant of Anu. E. a priv. and āpāna.

[Sanskrit to German]

Anapana 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.

Prakrit-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

Āṇāpāṇa (आणापाण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Ānaprāṇa.

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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.

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