Avajjana, Āvajjana: 7 definitions
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Avajjana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Adverting;
Avajjana is made up of aa and vijjana.
avajjana means adverting.
'advertence' of the mind towards the object, forms the first stage in the process of consciousness (s. viññāna-kicca).
If an object of the 5 physical senses is concerned, it is called 'five-door advertence' (pañca dvārāvajjana); in the case of a mental object, 'mind-door advertence' (mano-dvārāvajjana).
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Āvajjana, (nt.) (fr. āvajjati, cp. BSk. āvarjana in diff. meaning) turning to, paying attention, apprehending; adverting the mind.—See discussion of term at Cpd. 85, 227 (the C. derive āvajjana fr. āvaṭṭeti to turn towards, this confusion being due to close resemblance of jj and ṭṭ in writing); also Kvu trsl. 221 n. 4 (on Kvu 380 which has āvaṭṭanā), 282 n. 2 (on Kvu 491 āvaṭṭanā).—Ps. II, 5, 120; J. II, 243; Vbh. 320; Miln. 102 sq. ; Vism. 432; DA. I, 271. (Page 111)
āvajjana (အာဝဇ္ဇန) [(na,thī) (န၊ထီ)]—
[ā+vajja+yu．bhavaṅgacittaṃ āvajjayatīti āvajjanā,aṃ,ṭī,1．75．bhavaṅgasantānato apanetvā rūpārammaṇe cittasantānaṃ āvajjeti nāmetīti āvajjanaṃ．paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,1．265]
[အာ+ဝဇ္ဇ+ယု။ ဘဝင်္ဂစိတ္တံ အာဝဇ္ဇယတီတိ အာဝဇ္ဇနာ၊ အံ၊ဋီ၊၁။၇၅။ ဘဝင်္ဂသန္တာနတော အပနေတွာ ရူပါရမ္မဏေ စိတ္တသန္တာနံ အာဝဇ္ဇေတိ နာမေတီတိ အာဝဇ္ဇနံ။ ပဋိသံ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၁။၂၆၅]
[Pali to Burmese]
āvajjana—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) အာဝဇ္ဇန်း၊ အာဝဇ္ဇန်းစိတ်၊ ပဉ္စဒွါရ မနောဒွါရတို့၌ ထင်လာသော အာရုံကို ဆင်ခြင်-ဘွင်စိတ်ကို ပြန်လည် ဆုတ်နစ်သွားစေ-ဘွင်အစဉ်မှ ပယ်ရှား၍ ထင်လာသော အာရုံအသစ်၌ စိတ်အစဉ်ကို ညွတ်စေ-တတ်သော စိတ်။ (ခ) ဆင်ခြင်ခြင်းသဘော။ (၂) အာဝဇ္ဇန်း၊ ရှေ့အဖို့က ဖြစ်သော သဒ္ဓါအစရှိသော တရား။ (၃) (ဥပေက္ခာဟုဆိုအပ်သော)-အာဝဇ္ဇန်း-မနောဒွါရာဝဇ္ဇန်း- ယှဉ်သော စေတနာ။ အာဝဇ္ဇနုပေက္ခာ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) The consciousness that is produced through awareness, mental perception, and a sense of the five aggregates is what can guide the mind to turn back to its original state by distancing itself from the habitual patterns and allowing new perceptions to arise. (b) The notion of contemplation. (2) The law that constitutes the foundation of existence, stemming from antecedent causes. (3) (As referred to as) Awareness - a compassionate state that considers the suffering of existence - mindful awareness of afflictions.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Āvajjaṇa (आवज्जण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Āvarjana.
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.
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Partial matches (+0): Ao, Yu, Yu, Vajja, A.
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