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Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions

Audāsīnya (औदासीन्य) refers to “indifference”, consisting of four stages, according to Abhinava’s Tantrāloka chapter 10.—Accordingly, “In the fourth state … knowable entities appear as awareness on the verge of reaching plentitude because [the] indifference (audāsīnya) [that characterized the third state of deep sleep] is abating [...]”.

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Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.

Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (yoga)

Audāsīnya (औदासीन्य) refers to “indifference”, according to the Siddhāntamuktāvalī, an 18th-century text on Haṭhayoga consisting of 1553 verses.—The Siddhāntamuktāvalī significantly extends the original Haṭhapradīpikā by adding sections on the purification of the channels (nāḍīśuddhi), meditation (dhyāna), cheating death (kālavañcana) and indifference (audāsīnya).

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Audāsīnya (औदासीन्य) refers to the “austere practice of detachment”, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise which deals absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Though the Amanaska contains some archaic features such as descriptions of a stonelike Samādhi and the rather austere practice of detachment (audāsīnya), it would be a mistake to think that the Amanaska was written for the ‘bed-of-nails’ ascetic or even those Yogins who performed asceticism (tapas) as it was defined by the Pātañjalayogaśāstra. [...]

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

audāsīnya (औदासीन्य).—n S audāsya n S Indifference, unconcern, stoicism.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

audāsīnya (औदासीन्य).—n Indifference, uncon- cern, stoicism.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Audāsīnya (औदासीन्य).—[udāsīna or udāsa-ṣyañ]

1) Indifference, apathy; पर्याप्तोऽसि प्रजाः पातुमौदासीन्येन वर्तितुम् (paryāpto'si prajāḥ pātumaudāsīnyena vartitum) R.1.25; इदानीमौदास्यं यदि भजसि भागीरथि (idānīmaudāsyaṃ yadi bhajasi bhāgīrathi) G. L.4.

2) Solitariness, loneliness.

3) Perfect indifference (to worldly affairs), stoicism.

Derivable forms: audāsīnyam (औदासीन्यम्).

See also (synonyms): audāsya.

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

Audāsīnya (औदासीन्य).—i. e. ud-āsīna + ya (vb. ās), and audāsya audāsya, i. e. ud-ās + a + ya, n. Indifference, apathy, [Daśakumāracarita] in Chr. 183, 17; [Vedāntasāra, (in my Chrestomathy.)] in Chr. 219, 2.

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

Audāsīnya (औदासीन्य).—[neuter] indifference.

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

Audāsīnya (औदासीन्य):—n. ([from] ud-āsīna), indifference, apathy, disregard, [Rāmāyaṇa; Daśakumāra-carita; Raghuvaṃśa etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Audasinya 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Audāsīnya (ಔದಾಸೀನ್ಯ):—[noun] = ಔದಾಸೀನ [audasina].

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Audasinyanimagna.

Full-text: Audasya, Kalavancana, Nadishuddhi, Vancana, Shuddhi, Vyapatti, Siddhantamuktavali, Samstha, Lalita.

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