Bhanj, Bhañj: 8 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bhañj (भञ्ज्).—I. 7 P. (bhanakti, babhañja, abhāṅkṣīt, bhaṅkṣyati, bhaṅktum, bhagna; desid. bibhaṅkṣati)

1) To break, tear down, shatter, shiver or break to pieces, split; भनज्मि सर्वमर्यादाः (bhanajmi sarvamaryādāḥ) Bk. 6.38; भङ्क्त्वा भुजौ (bhaṅktvā bhujau) 4.3; बभञ्जुर्वलयानि च (babhañjurvalayāni ca) 3.22; धनुरभाजि यत्त्वया (dhanurabhāji yattvayā) R.11.76.

2) To devastate, destroy by pulling down; भनक्त्युपवनं कपिः (bhanaktyupavanaṃ kapiḥ) Bhaṭṭikāvya 9.2.

2) To make a breach (in a fortress).

4) To frustrate, foil, disappoint, baffle; पिनाकिना भग्नमनोरथा सती (pinākinā bhagnamanorathā satī) Kumārasambhava 5.1.

5) To arrest, check, interrupt, suspend; as in भग्ननिद्रः (bhagnanidraḥ).

6) To defeat, vanquish; क्षत्राणि रामः परिभूय रामात् क्षत्राद्यथाऽभज्यत स द्विजेन्द्रः (kṣatrāṇi rāmaḥ paribhūya rāmāt kṣatrādyathā'bhajyata sa dvijendraḥ) N.22.133; नृपा भीष्मादयो भग्नाः (nṛpā bhīṣmādayo bhagnāḥ) Pañch.2.41. -With अव (ava) to break down, shatter; वनस्पतिं वज्र इवावभज्य (vanaspatiṃ vajra ivāvabhajya) Kumārasambhava 3. 74.

-pra 1 To break down, shatter, splinter.

2) to stop, arrest, suspend.

3) to frustrate, disappoint. -II. 1 U. (bhañjayati-te)

1) To brighten, illuminate.

2) To speak.

3) To shine.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bhañj (भञ्ज्).—[(o, au) obhañjau] r. 7th cl. (bhanakti) To break, to destroy.

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

Bhañj (भञ्ज्).—ii. 7, bhanaj, bhañj, [Parasmaipada.] 1. To split, [Rāmāyaṇa] 1, 67, 17. 2. To break, [Pañcatantra] i. [distich] 148; to destroy, Mahābhārata 3, 10990. Ptcple. of the pf. pass. bhagna. 1. Broken, [Pañcatantra] 36, 12; torn. 2. Defeated, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 2, 85; [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 5, 340. 3. Disheartened, Chr. 5, 23; [Pañcatantra] iv. [distich] 43. 4. Disappointed, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 2, 82. 5. Extinct, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 148. 6. Disregarded, humbled; † i. 10, [Parasmaipada.] To speak, to shine.

— With the prep. ava ava, To break down, Mahābhārata 1, 7081.

— With ni ni, To break, [Bhaṭṭikāvya, (ed. Calc.)] 15, 117.

— With vinis vi-nis, vinirbhagna, Broken down, Mahābhārata 3, 12477.

— With pra pra, To break down, Mahābhārata 3, 11121. The original form has been probably bhrañj.

— Cf. [Latin] frango; [Gothic.] brikan; A. S. bracan, brecan;

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

1) Bhañj (भञ्ज्):—1. bhañj [class] 7. [Parasmaipada] ([Dhātupāṭha xxix, 16]) bhanakti ([perfect tense] babhañja, [Ṛg-veda] etc., 3. [plural] [Ātmanepada] babhañjire, [Harivaṃśa]; [Aorist] abhāṅkṣīt, [Mahābhārata]; [future] bhaṅkṣyati, ktā, [ib.]; [indeclinable participle] bhaṅktvā, bhaktvā or -bhajya, [ib.]),

—to break, shatter, split, [Ṛg-veda] etc. etc.;

—to break into, make a breach in (a fortress, with [accusative]), [Hitopadeśa];

—to rout, put to flight, defeat (an army), [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa; Rājataraṅgiṇī];

—to dissolve (an assembly), [Harṣacarita];

—to break up id est. divide (a Sūtra), [Siddhānta-kaumudī];

—to bend, [Rāmāyaṇa];

—to check, arrest, suspend, frustrate, disappoint, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.:—[Passive voice] bhajyate ([Epic] also ti; [Aorist] abhāji or abhañji, [Pāṇini 6-4, 33]),

—to be broken or break (intr.) etc., [Atharva-veda] etc. etc.:—[Causal] bhañjayati ([Aorist] ababhañjat) [grammar]:—[Desiderative] bibhaṅkṣati, [ib.] :—[Intensive] bambhajyate or jīti, [ib.]

2) [Perhaps for [originally] bhrañj; cf. bhraj; [Latin] frangere, nau-fraga; [German] brechen; [English] break.]

3) 2. bhañj (√2. bhañj, [class] 10. [Parasmaipada] bhañjayati), ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’, [Dhātupāṭha xxxiii, 86].

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

Bhañj (भञ्ज्):—(dha, au, o) bhanakti 7. a. To break.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Bhañj (भञ्ज्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Karaṃja, Ṇīraṃja, Pariraṃja, Paviraṃja, Piaraṃja, Bhaṃja, Mūra, Vira, Vemaya, Sūra.

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