Apacaya: 21 definitions
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Apacaya means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, 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 Apachaya.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Apacaya (अपचय):—Emaciation
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
apacaya : (m.) falling off; diminution; unmaking.
Apacaya, (fr. apa + ci) falling off, diminution (opp. ācaya gathering, heaping up), unmaking, esp. loss (of wordliness), decrease (of possibility of rebirth Vin.II, 2 = III, 21 = IV.213; cp. J.III, 342; S.II, 95 (kāyassa ācayo pi apacayo pi); A.IV, 280 = Vin.II, 259 (opp. ācaya); J.III, 342 (sekho °ena na tappati); Vbh.106, 319, 326, 330. —gāmin going towards decrease, “making for the undoing of rebirth” (Dhs.trsl. 82) A.V, 243, 277; Dhs.277, 339, 505, 1014; Vbh.12, 16 sq.; Nett 87 (cp. Kvu 156). (Page 50)
apacaya (အပစယ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[apa+ci+a]
[အပ+စိ+အ]
[Pali to Burmese]
apacaya—
(Burmese text): (၁) ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း။ (၂) ကိလေသာတို့ကို-ဖျက်ဆီးတတ်-ဖျက်ဆီးကြောင်းဖြစ်-သော တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ အပစယဘူတ-ကြည့်။ (က) ကိလေသာတို့ကို-ဖျက်ဆီးတတ်-ဖျက်ဆီးကြောင်းဖြစ်-သော နိဗ္ဗာန်၏ အကြောင်းဖြစ်သော တရား၊ သံဝရတရား။ (ခ) ဝဋ်ကို ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း။ အပစယာရာမ-(က)-ကြည့်။ (ဂ) စုတိပဋိ-သန္ဓေကို ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်း။ (၃) မတိုးပွါးခြင်း၊ ဆုတ်ယုတ်-ပျက်စီး-ခြင်း။ (က) အလုံးစုံသော ဝဋ်ဆင်းရဲ၏-ဆုတ်ယုတ်-ပျက်စီး-ငြိမ်းအေး-ခြင်း၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ (၄) ဆည်းပူးအပ်-ပွါးစေအပ်-သော အာစယဟူသော စယ-မှ ကင်းသော တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ အပစယဂါမီ-ကြည့်။ (က) ကံ,ကိလေသာတို့သည်-ဆည်းပူးအပ်-ပွါးစေအပ်-သော ပဋိသန္ဓေ,စုတိ,ဂတိ-ဟု ဆိုအပ်သော ဝဋ်တရားမှ ကင်းသော တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ အပစယဂါမီ-(က)-ကြည့်။ (ခ) (အာသဝ၏ အာရုံဖြစ်သော) ကုသိုလ်,အကုသိုလ်မှ ကင်းသော တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ အပစယဂါမီ-(၁)-ကြည့်။ (ဂ) ကိလေသာရန်သူတို့၏ ပွါးစီးခြင်းမှ-ကင်းသော-ကင်းရာဖြစ်သော-တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ အပစယာရာမ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Destruction. (2) The Dharma that leads to the destruction of aggregates - Nirvana. Look into the aggregates. (a) The Dharma that explains the reason for the destruction of aggregates, the ultimate truth of Nirvana. (b) The destruction of ignorance. Look into the aggregates. (c) The destruction of the aggregates such as form and consciousness. (3) Non-increase, devastation and disintegration. (a) The complete cessation of all suffering, Nirvana. (4) The reality free from attachment and clinging, Nirvana. Look into the aggregates. (a) The aggregate, which is subject to clinging and attachment, is different from the reality referred to as Nirvana. Look into the aggregates. (c) The phenomena free from the perceptions of existence and non-existence, Nirvana. Look into the aggregates. (g) The Dharma that is free from the suffering of enemies of the aggregates is Nirvana. Look into the aggregates.
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
apacaya (अपचय).—m (S) Loss: also decline, decrease, deterioration.
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
Apacaya (अपचय).—
1) Diminution, decrease, decay, decline, fall (fig. also.); कफापचयः (kaphāpacayaḥ) Daśakumāracarita 16; तेनास्यापचयं यान्ति व्याधे- र्मूलान्यशेषतः (tenāsyāpacayaṃ yānti vyādhe- rmūlānyaśeṣataḥ) Suśr. येषां राज्ञा सह स्यातामुच्चयापचयौ ध्रुवम् (yeṣāṃ rājñā saha syātāmuccayāpacayau dhruvam) H.3. 126. शिवस्योपचयं वीक्ष्य तथापचयमात्मनः (śivasyopacayaṃ vīkṣya tathāpacayamātmanaḥ) Śiva. B.25.32.
2) Loss, privation, failure, defect; H.3.126.
3) Name of several planetary mansions.
Derivable forms: apacayaḥ (अपचयः).
Apacaya (अपचय).—(m., = Pali id.), in good sense, diminution (sc. of karman, or worldliness; in Pali sometimes virtually = nirvāṇa): Avadāna-śataka ii.188.10; 189.6 °yāya, dat.; see saṃcaya.
Apacaya (अपचय).—m.
(-yaḥ) 1. Loss, privation. 2. Respect, obeisance. E. apa opposite to, and caya from ci to collect, with ac aff.
Apacaya (अपचय).—i. e. apa-ci + a m. Decrease, [Hitopadeśa] iii. [distich] 131.
Apacaya (अपचय).—[masculine] decrease, decline.
1) Apacaya (अपचय):—[=apa-caya] [from apa-ci] m. diminution, decay, decrease, decline
2) [v.s. ...] Name of several planetary mansions.
Apacaya (अपचय):—[tatpurusha compound] m.
(-yaḥ) Decrease, decline, deterioration, loss; e. g. parimāṇāpacayelpaśabdaḥ; used in opposition to upacaya; e. g. priyaśirastvādyaprāptirupacayāpacayau hi bhede; or pratikṣaṇaṃ śarīreṣūpacayāpacayadarśanānnānātvam; or in opposition to vṛddhi; e. g. yā śabdasamūhatyāgaparigrahasaṃkhyāvṛddhyapacayavarṇasamāsānubandhānāṃ vyaktānupacārādvyaktiḥ; also in opposition to udaya; e. g. in the passage cintayanvṛddhikṣayau munīndrāṇām the word vṛddhikṣayau is explained udayāpacayau.
2) (In Astrology.) The collective name of eight bhāvas or planetary mansions, which are called severally tanu, dhana, suhṛd, suta, jāyā, mṛtyu, dharma, vyaya (the remaining four, viz. sahaja, ripu, karman and aya being called upacaya). E. ci with apa, kṛt aff. ac.
Apacaya (अपचय):—[apa-caya] (yaḥ) 1. m. Loss; respect.
Apacaya (अपचय):—(von ci mit apa) m.
1) Abnahme, Verminderung [Amarakoṣa 3, 3, 16.4, 147. 6, 7.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1524.] ekāpacayena [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 8, 3, 2.] tenāsyāpacayaṃ yānti vyādhermūlānyaśeṣataḥ [Suśruta 2, 52, 18.] dehasyāpacayaḥ [Śihlana’s Śāntiśataka 1, 7.] in [Kāvya-Saṅgraha 411.] balāpa [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 319,] [Scholiast] Gegens. upacaya [Suśruta 1, 30, 12.] yeṣaṃ rājñā saha syātāmupacayāpacayau (Gewinn und Verlust) dhruvam [Hitopadeśa III, 131.] —
2) in der Astrol. Name verschiedener Häuser [Weber’s Indische Studien II, 275. 281.]
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Apacaya (अपचय):—, āyuṣo pacayaṃ kṛtvā maraṇāyopaneṣyati [Mahābhārata 3, 1380.] [Sp. 279, Z. 3] lies yeṣāṃ .
Apacaya (अपचय):—m. —
1) Abnahme , Verminderung [Gautama's Dharmaśāstra 10,35.27,12.] —
2) in der Astrol. das 1te , 2te , 4te , 5te , 7te , 8te , 9te und 12te Haus.
Apacaya (अपचय) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Apacaya, Avacaya.
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
Apacaya (अपचय) [Also spelled apchay]:—(nm) reduction; catabolism; hence ~[cita] (a).
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Apacaya (अपचय) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Apacaya.
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
Apacaya (ಅಪಚಯ):—
1) [noun] a growing less; a declining.
2) [noun] the disruptive process of chemical change in organism; destructive metabolism.
3) [noun] the act or process of collecting; collection; gathering.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Apacaya (अपचय):—n. 1. loss; damage; waste; 2. reduction;
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: A, Apa, Caya, Ci, Ce.
Starts with (+3): Apacayabhuta, Apacayagami, Apacayagamibhava, Apacayagamicetana, Apacayagamidhamma, Apacayagaminicetana, Apacayagamipatipada, Apacayagamita, Apacayagamitta, Apacayagamivacana, Apacayagamivinnana, Apacayahetubhuta, Apacayaka, Apacayanakara, Apacayanaparicariya, Apacayanappatta, Apacayanasahagata, Apacayanata, Apacayapakkhika, Apacayapannatti.
Full-text: Ekapacaya, Apasayam, Apacayapannatti, Apacayahetubhuta, Apacayarama, Upacayapacaya, Apacayagami, Shun, Apacayabhuta, Acaya, Apachay, Apacayapakkhika, Apchay, Nirhrasa, Avacaya, Caya, Sancaya, Upaccati, Apacinati, Nyaya.
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