Arhant: 6 definitions
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Sanskrit dictionary
Arhant (अर्हन्त्).—also (MIndic) arahant, q.v., the ideal personage in Hīnayāna Buddhism, fourth and last stage in religious development (see srota-āpanna), Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 1.6 et passim. In Mahāvyutpatti 4, 5138, etymologically rendered Tibetan dgra bcom pa, having conquered the enemy, as if ari plus root han! Fem. arhantī Avadāna-śataka ii.4.12; Śikṣāsamuccaya 171.16; arhantinī Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.22.9 (prose); abstract arhattva, nt., Mahāvyutpatti 5137 etc.
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Arhant (अर्हन्त्) or Arhavant.—(§ 22.50; not otherwise recorded; m.c.?): Lalitavistara 283.7, repeated 19 (verses), bhāvi (read bhāvī m.c.) tvam adyārhavān, thou shalt become an arhat today (no v.l.).
Arhant (अर्हन्त्).— (ptcple. of the pres. of arh), f. hatī, Venerable, [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] [distich] 112.
— Superlat. arkattama, Most venerable, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 3, 128.
Arhant (अर्हन्त्).—[adjective] deserving, entitled to ([accusative]); worthy, venerable, [superlative] arhattama [masculine] an Arhant, i.e. a Jaina saint.
Arhant (अर्हन्त्):—(part. praes. von arh)
1) adj. a) verdienend, Ansprüche auf Etwas (acc.) habend [Ṛgveda 1, 94, 1. 2, 3, 3. 5, 7, 2.] statt des verb. fin. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 2, 133.] arhanniha bhavānvidyām [Scholiast] — b) vermögend, dürfend [Ṛgveda 2, 3, 1. 5, 52, 5. 10, 2, 2. 99, 7.] — c) würdig, subst. ein Würdiger [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 157.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 84.] tadyathaivādo manuṣyarāja āgate nyasminvārhatyukṣāṇaṃ vā vehataṃ vā kṣadante [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 1, 15.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 3, 4, 1, 3. 6.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 51.] [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 55. 5, 11.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 6, 56.] [Śākuntala 112.] arhattama überaus ehrwürdig [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 128.] anarhant [Duaupadīpramātha 6, 20.] — d) gelobt (stuta) [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) m. a) ein Buddha [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 10.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 81.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 84.] — b) die höchste Würde in der buddh. Hierarchie (kṣapaṇaka) [Medinīkoṣa t. 84.] [Burnouf 294.] [Lot. de Lassen’s Anthologie b. l. 287.] — c) ein Arhant oder Obergott bei den Jaina [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 24. fgg.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 157.] devo rhan (v. l. arhatāṃ devaḥ) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 58, 45] in [Weber’s Verzeichniss 246]; vgl. auch [No. 964.]
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Arhant (अर्हन्त्):—
1) c) arhattama [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 3, 5.] —
2) a) [Oxforder Handschriften 264,b,21.]
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Arhant (अर्हन्त्):—
2) c) [Hemacandra] [Yogaśāstra 1, 1. 2, 4. 3, 148.]
Arhant (अर्हन्त्):——
1) Adj. — a) verdienend , Ansprüche auf Etwas (Acc.) habend. — b) vermögend , dürfend. — c) würdig , ein Würdiger. arhattama Superl. — d) *gepriesen. —
2) m. — a) ein Buddha. — b) Bez. der höchsten Würde in der buddh. Hierarchie. — c) Obergott bei den Jaina.
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.
Nepali dictionary
Arhant is another spelling for अर्हन्त [arhanta].—n. 1. Buddha; 2. a Buddhist monk;
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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Starts with (+0): Arhamtyadharma, Arhamtyakriye, Arhamtyalakshmi, Arhanta, Arhantaghatin, Arhanti, Arhantika, Arhantya.
Full-text (+199): Paragata, Ashaiksha, Arhattva, Jinottama, Bodhida, Dattatirthakrit, Jineshvara, Trikalavid, Pedhala, Pottila, Devadhideva, Anantajit, Kshinashtakarman, Nimishvara, Munisuvrata, Arhanti, Madhyantika, Dharmashreshthin, Astaga, Nirvanin.
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