Arupa, Arūpa, Arūpā: 27 definitions
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Alternative spellings of this word include Arup.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Arūpā (अरूपा).—One of Dakṣa’s daughters. (Mahābhārata, Ādi Parva, Chapter 65, Verse 46).
Arūpa (अरूप) refers to the “formless” and is used to describe Śiva, in the Śivapurāṇa 2.2.15. Accordingly as Brahmā narrated to Nārada:—“[...] On arrival there, after paying respects to the lord [Śiva] with great excitement we lauded Him with various hymns with palms joined in reverence. The Devas said: [...] Obeisance to the formless (arūpa) Being of immense form, the great, of unlimited power, the lord of the three worlds, the witness of all and all-pervasive”.
1a) Arūpa (अरूप).—A mantrakṛt.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 59. 97.
1b) The people of a Janapada on the other side of the Vindhyas. (anūpas—vā. p.).*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 114. 54; Vāyu-purāṇa 45. 134.
2) Arūpā (अरूपा).—A daughter of Riṣṭa.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 7. 13; Vāyu-purāṇa 69. 48.
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.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Arūpa (अरूप) refers to the “formless”, according to the Śrīmatottara-tantra, an expansion of the Kubjikāmatatantra: the earliest popular and most authoritative Tantra of the Kubjikā cult.—Accordingly, “Abandon (both) form (rūpa) and the formless [i.e., arūpa]. Practice what is beyond form. All this (divine body) is in the form of a container (of the supreme state). It is the radiant energy which is all things. One who desires the (supreme) good should abandon everything. It is as useless as rotten meat. O god, there is nothing at all (of deity) in the navel, heart, mouth, and nose, nothing at all between the eyebrows, forehead, in the middle of the palate, or within the uvula, head and eyes. [...]”.
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.
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Arūpa (अरूप) refers to “non-personal (categories)”, as discussed in chapter 6 (Jñānapāda) of the Padmasaṃhitā: the most widely followed of Saṃhitā covering the entire range of concerns of Pāñcarātra doctrine and practice (i.e., the four-fold formulation of subject matter—jñāna, yoga, kriyā and caryā) consisting of roughly 9000 verses.—Description of the chapter [brahmaprāpti-upāya]: Brahmā, having heard the foregoing description of Ultimate Reality in terms that are reminiscent of personality, now seeks to know about the same Ultimate Reality in non-personal [arūpa] categories. A series of similes is given (2-29) which attempts to show the nature, extent and relation to this world of Ultimate Reality. [...]
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Absence of matter.
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).
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
In Jainism, 'arupi' stands for 'non-material'. Probably the same as arupa.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Biology (plants and animals)
Arupa in the Sanskrit language is the name of a plant identified with Triticum aestivum from the Poaceae (Grass) family. For the possible medicinal usage of arupa, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.
Arupa in India is the name of a plant defined with Triticum aestivum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zeia vulgaris var. aestiva (L.) Lunell (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Enciclopedia Argentina de Agricultura y Jardineria (1959)
· Systema Vegetabilium. Editio decima tertia (1774)
· Flora Helvetica (1828)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)
· Taxon (2000)
· La flore adventice de Montpellier (1912)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Arupa, for example side effects, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, extract dosage, health benefits, have a look at these references.
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Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
arūpa : (adj.) formless; incorporeal; non-substantial.
Arūpa, (adj.) (a + rūpa) without form or body, incorporeal, D. I, 195 sq. ; III, 240; Sn. 755; It. 62; Sdhp. 228, 463, 480. See details under rūpa.
arūpa (အရူပ) [(na) (န)]—
[na+rūpa]
[န+ရူပ]
[Pali to Burmese]
arūpa—
(Burmese text): (၁) ရုပ်မဟုတ်သော-ရုပ်မှတစ်ပါးသော-တရား၊ (က) (နာမက္ခန္ဓာလေးပါး,နိဗ္ဗာန်-ဟူသော) နာမ်တရား။ (ခ) အရူပါဝစရစိတ်,စေတသိက်တည်းဟူသော) အရူပါဝစရတရား၊ အရူပဘဝ။ (ဂ) အရူပသမာပတ်။ (ဃ) အရူပပဋိသန္ဓေ။ (င) အရူပဈာန်။ (စ) အရူပတဏှာ၊ အရူပရာဂ။ (ဆ) ကသိုဏ်းရုပ်နိမိတ်-ကသိုဏ်းရုပ်အာရုံ-မဟုတ်သော အာရုံ၊ အဇ္ဈတ္တ (ခန္ဓာကိုယ် ကာယမှ) ကသိုဏ်းရုပ် မဟုတ်သော အာရုံ၊ (ကောင်းကင်ပညတ်စသော အာရုံလေးပါး)။ (၂) ရုပ်မရှိရာဖြစ်သော ဘုံ၊ အရူပဘုံ။ (၃) ရုပ်မရှိသော ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်၊ အရူပပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ (တိ) (၄) ရုပ်သဘောကို လွန်မြောက်-ဖောက်ပြန်ခြင်းမရှိ-အသွင်သဏ္ဌာန်မရှိ-အကြောင်းတရားမရှိ-သော၊ တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ (တိ) (၅) အသွင်သဏ္ဌာန်-အဆင်း-မရှိသော တရား၊ စိတ်။ (တိ) (၆) (က) ရုပ်မရှိသော၊ ရုပ်နှင့် မရောနှောသော။ (ခ) အကြောင်းမရှိသော။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Non-material - beyond form - truth; (a) (the four ultimate realities of name, nirvana) named reality. (b) (matter and mind, known as) immaterial reality, immaterial existence. (c) immaterial sphere of existence. (d) immaterial binding. (e) immaterial element. (f) immaterial consciousness. (g) immaterial awareness. (h) non-material sensory perception - a sense that is not derived from physical form - (the four divine senses). (2) The state of being without form, immaterial realm. (3) An individual without form, immaterial individual. (4) The truth that transcends form - without distortion - without distinctive character - without cause - that is, reality, nirvana. (5) The state without distinctive character - without shape - that is truth, mind. (6) (a) Non-physical, not mixed with form. (b) Without cause. Please refer to the original text.
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
arupa (अरुप).—a S (Poetry.) Void of figure or form;--used of Brahma, air, sound &c. Ex. a0 tēṃ rupāsa ālēṃ ||
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
Arūpa (अरूप).—a.
1) Formless, shapeless.
2) Ugly, deformed.
3) Dissimilar, unlike.
-pam 1 A bad or ugly figure. तामरूपामसतीं भक्षयिष्यामि मानुषीम् (tāmarūpāmasatīṃ bhakṣayiṣyāmi mānuṣīm) Rām
2) The Pradhāna of the Sāṅkhyas and Brahman of the Vedāntins.
4) Not possessed of द्रव्य (dravya) and देवता (devatā); अरूपः शब्दः श्रूयमाणः (arūpaḥ śabdaḥ śrūyamāṇaḥ) &c. ŚB. on MS.4.4.1. (It may be observed that dravya and devatā form the rūpa or form of a sacrifice).
Ārūpa (आरूप).—nt. (= ārūpya; compare ārūpin), formlessness: Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 312.8(—9) ārūpya-rūpaṃ hy ārūpair…(9) rūpaṃ darśyanti sattvānāṃ.
Arūpa (अरूप).—mfn.
(-paḥ-pā-pī-paṃ) 1. Formless, shapeless. 2. Ugly. ill formed, mishapen. 3. Dissimilar, unlike. E. a neg. rūpa beauty.
Arūpa (अरूप).—adj., f. pā, disfigured, [Rāmāyaṇa] 2, 23, 43.
Arūpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms a and rūpa (रूप).
Arūpa (अरूप).—[adjective] shapeless, ill formed, ugly.
1) Arūpa (अरूप):—[=a-rūpa] mf(ā)n. formless, shapeless, [Pbr.; Śvetāśvatara-upaniṣad; Nṛsiṃha-tāpanīya-upaniṣad]
2) [v.s. ...] ugly, ill-formed, [Rāmāyaṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] emancipation (= nirvāṇa), [Monier-Williams’ Buddhism 137]
1) Arūpa (अरूप):—[a-rūpa] (paḥ-pā-paṃ) a. Ugly.
2) [(paḥ-pā-paṃ) a.] Unseen, invisible.
Arūpa (अरूप):—(3. a + rūpa) adj. f. ā .
1) gestaltlos [ŚVETĀŚV. Upakośā 3, 10.] —
2) missgestaltet: imāmarūpāmasatīm [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 23, 43.]
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Arūpa (अरूप):—(3. a + rūpa)
1) farbund gestaltlos; davon nom. abstr. tva so v. a. Blindheit [Sânkhya Philosophy 35.] —
2) arūpatva das Missgestaltetsein [Kathāsaritsāgara 56, 410.]
Arūpa (अरूप):—Adj. (f. ā) —
1) gestaltlos [Tāṇḍyabrāhmaṇa 24,1,3.] —
2) missgestaltet. —
3) farblos , so v.a. dem Auge nicht zugänglich [Indische studien von Weber 9,164.]
Arūpa (अरूप) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Arūva.
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
Arūpa (अरूप) [Also spelled arup]:—(a) formless.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Arūpa (ಅರೂಪ):—[adjective] having no shape or form; formless; shapeless.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Arūpa (अरूप):—adj. 1. formless; shapeless; 2. ugly; deformed;
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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