Anupama, Anūpama, Anupamā: 22 definitions
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Anupama means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, biology. 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 Anupam.
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In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
1. Anupama - City where Vessabhu Buddha was born (BuA.205, 206). The Buddhavamsa (xxii.v.18), however, gives the name of the city as Anoma.
2. Anupama - Pleasaunce in Anupama where Vessabhu was born and where, after Enlightenment, he performed the twin miracle. BuA.206.
3. Anupama - Son of Phussa Buddha (BuA.193, 194). The Buddhavamsa (xix.16) gives his name as Ananda.
4. Anupama - Son of Siddhattha Buddha. Bu.xvii.15.
5. Anupama - City where, in Anomarama, Atthadassi Buddha died. BuA.181.
6. Anupama - A brahmin village in the time of Anomadassi Buddha. BuA.142.
7. Anupama - An ajivaka who gave grass to Sumana Buddha for his seat (BuA.125).
8. Anupama - Son of Sumana Buddha. Bu.v.23.
9. Anupama - A banker, father of Anupama (1). BuA.122.
10. Anupama - A banker, father of Anupama (2). BuA.125.
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1. Anupama - Daughter of the banker Anupama (9), of the village of the same name. She gave a meal of milk rice to Anomadassi Buddha just before his Enlightenment. BuA.142.
2. Anupama - Daughter of the banker Anupama (10), of the village Anoma. She gave a meal of milk rice to Sumana Buddha just prior to his Enlightenment. BuA.125.
3. Anupama - See Magandiya.
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).
Biology (plants and animals)
Anupama in India is the name of a plant defined with Zingiber officinale in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Curcuma longifolia Wall (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Zingiberoideae.
· Chromosome Science (1998)
· Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1820)
· Current Science (1982)
· Bull. Sichuan Sch. Chinese Mater. Med. (1987)
· Deutsche Flora. Pharmaceutisch-medicinische Botanik (1881)
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Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
anūpama : (adj.) that which has no comparison.
Anūpama, at It.122 is metric reading for anupama (see upama). (Page 45)
1) anupama (အနုပမ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[na+upamā]
[န+ဥပမာ]
2) anupama (အနုပမ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[na+upamā]
[န+ဥပမာ]
3) anūpama (အနူပမ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[na+upamā. u- dīghapru.]
[န+ဥပမာ။ ဥ-ကို ဒီဃပြု။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) anupama—
(Burmese text): နှိုင်းယှဉ်ဖွယ်ရာ-ဥပမာ-မရှိသော၊ သူ။ အနောပမ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): There is no comparable example; he will also look forward.
2) anupama—
(Burmese text): (၁) သုမနမြတ်စွာဘုရား၏ သားတော် အနုပမ။ (၂) သိဒ္ဓတ္ထမြတ်စွာဘုရား၏ သားတော်အနုပမာ။ (၃) ဖုဿမြတ်စွာဘုရား၏ သားတော် အနုပမ။ (၄) သုမနမြတ်စွာဘုရားအား ဃနာနို့ဆွမ်းဆက်ကပ်သည့် အနောမသူဌေး၏သမီး အနုပမာ။ (၅) ယင်းဘုရားရှင်အားပင် မြက်ရှစ်ဆုပ်ကို လှူဒါန်းသည့် အနုပမမည်သော-တက္ကတွန်း-အာဇီဝက။ (၆) အနောမဒဿီမြတ်စွာဘုရားလက်ထက် အနုပမမည်သော ပုဏ္ဏားရွာ။ (၇) ယင်းဘုရားရှင်အား ဃနာနို့ဆွမ်း ဆက်ကပ်သည့် အနုပမာမည်သော အမျိုးသမီး။ (၈) ယင်းအမျိုးသမီး၏ဖခင် အနုပမမည်သော သူဌေး။ (၉) အတ္ထဒဿီမြတ်စွာဘုရား ပရိနိဗ္ဗာန်စံတော်မူရာ အနုပမမည်သော မြို့တော်။ (၁ဝ) ဝေဿဘူမြတ်စွာဘုရားလောင်း ဖွားမြင်တော်မူရာ အနုပမမည်သော ဥယျာဉ်။ အနောမလည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The son of the Supreme Buddha, Anupama. (2) The son of the Excellent Dhamma, Anupama. (3) The son of the Blessed Buddha, Anupama. (4) The daughter of the Noble Lady who offers milk to the Supreme Buddha, Anupama. (5) The illustrious Anupama who offers her cloth to the Blessed One. (6) The village of the Noble Anupama under the protection of the Excellent Buddha. (7) The lady who offers milk to the Blessed One, Anupama. (8) The father of that lady, a nobleman. (9) The city where the Supreme Buddha attained Nirvana, Anupama. (10) The garden where the Blessed Thera was born, Anupama. Please take note.
3) anūpama—
(Burmese text): (၁) နှိုင်းယှဉ်ဖွယ်-အတူ-ဥပမာ-မရှိသော၊ သူ။ (ပု) (၂) အနူပမအမည်ရှိသော၊ သူ။ (မထေရ်)။ (ပု) (၃) အနူပမအမည်ရှိသော၊ သူ။ (သုမနဘုရားရှင်၏သားတော်)။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Uncomparable - Together - Unexampled, He. (Noun) (2) With an unexampled name, He. (Noun) (3) With an unexampled name, He. (Son of the Supreme Being).
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
anupama (अनुपम).—a (S) corruptly anupamya a Incomparable, unparalleled, unrivaled.
anupama (अनुपम).—a Incomparable, most excellent.
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
Anupama (अनुपम).—a. [na. ba.] Incomparable, matchless, peerless, best, most excellent.
-matiḥ Name of a contemporary of Śākya muni.
-mā The female elephant of the southwest (mate of kumuda).
Anupamā (अनुपमा).—name of the daughter of Mākandika (in Pali called Māgandiyā): Divyāvadāna 515.22 ff.
Anupama (अनुपम).—mfn.
(-maḥ-mā-maṃ) Excellent, best. f.
(-mā) The female elephant of the south-east, or of the north-east. E. an neg. and upamā resemblance; above comparison.
Anupama (अनुपम).—[adjective] incomparable, excellent.
1) Anupama (अनुपम):—[=an-upama] mf(ā)n. incomparable, matchless
2) [v.s. ...] excellent, best
3) Anupamā (अनुपमा):—[=an-upamā] [from an-upama] f. the female elephant of the south-east or of the north-east.
Anupama (अनुपम):—[bahuvrihi compound] I. m. f. n.
(-maḥ-mā-mam) Incomparable, ex-cellent, best. Ii. f.
(-mā) The female elephant of the south-west (as the wife of the elephant Kumuda) or according to others, of the north-east (as the wife of the elephant Supratīka). E. a priv. and upamā.
Anupama (अनुपम):—[(maḥ-mā-maṃ) a.] Excellent.
Anupama (अनुपम):—(3. a + upamā)
1) adj. unvergleichlich, vorzüglich [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 214.] [Medinīkoṣa Manu’s Gesetzbuch 58.] unübertrefflich, mit dem instr.: balaṃ pramāṇaṃ śaktiśca parairanupamaṃ mama [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 62, 17.] —
2) f. mā Nomen proprium ibhyām [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 214.] das Weibchen des Weltelephanten Kumuda [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 2, 26.] Supratīka [Medinīkoṣa Manu’s Gesetzbuch 58.] [Hārāvalī 148.]
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Anupamā (अनुपमा):—f. Nomen proprium eines Frauenzimmers [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s 277 (47).] einer Stadt [242 (12).] [WILSON, Sel. Works 2, 5.]
Anupama (अनुपम):——
1) Adj. (f. ā) unvergleichlich , unübertrefflich. —
2) f. ā Nomen proprium — a) *des Weibchens eines Weltelephanten. — b) eines Frauenzimmers. — c) einer Stadt.
Anupama (अनुपम) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Aṇuvama, Aṇuvamā, Aṇovama.
Anupamā (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 無比女人 [wú bǐ nǚ rén]: “Anupamā” [Sanskrit personal name].
2) 無喩 [wú yù]: “incomparable”.
3) 無比 [wú bǐ]: “incomparable”.
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
Anupama (अनुपम) [Also spelled anupam]:—(a) matchless, unparalleled; out and away; ~[meya] unparalleled; matchless.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Anupama (ಅನುಪಮ):—
1) [adjective] beyond comparison; unequalled; matchless.
2) [adjective] ಅನುಪಮವಾಗು [anupamavagu] anupamavāgu to excel others; to become peerless.
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Anupama (ಅನುಪಮ):—[noun] a matchless, unequalled, peerless man.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Anupama (अनुपम):—adj. 1. incomparable; unique; 2. excellent; best;
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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