Brahmanirvana, Brahmanirvāṇa, Brahman-nirvana: 8 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarybrahmanirvāṇa (ब्रह्मनिर्वाण).—n S Absorption into and identification with brahma.
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 dictionaryBrahmanirvāṇa (ब्रह्मनिर्वाण).—absorption into the Supreme Spirit; स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति (sthitvāsyāmantakāle'pi brahmanirvāṇamṛcchati) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 2.72.
2) = ब्रह्मानन्द (brahmānanda) q. v.; तं ब्रह्मनिर्वाणसमाधिमाश्रितम् (taṃ brahmanirvāṇasamādhimāśritam) Bhāgavata 4.6.39.
Derivable forms: brahmanirvāṇam (ब्रह्मनिर्वाणम्).
Brahmanirvāṇa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms brahman and nirvāṇa (निर्वाण).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryBrahmanirvāṇa (ब्रह्मनिर्वाण) or Brahmanirvvāṇa.—n.
(-ṇaṃ) Absorption into or identification with the Supreme. E. brahma, and nirvāṇa final absorption.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryBrahmanirvāṇa (ब्रह्मनिर्वाण).—[neuter] extinction in Brahman.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryBrahmanirvāṇa (ब्रह्मनिर्वाण):—[=brahma-nirvāṇa] [from brahma > brahman] n. extinction in Brahmă, absorption into the one self-existent Spirit, [Bhagavad-gītā; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryBrahmanirvāṇa (ब्रह्मनिर्वाण):—[brahma-nirvāṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Absorption.
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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.
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Partial matches: Brahman, Brahma, Nirvana.
Full-text: Brahmanirvvana, Nirvana, Bhoja, Vrit.
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