Cankramana, Camkramana, Caṅkramaṇa: 14 definitions
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Cankramana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.
Alternative spellings of this word include Chankramana.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण):—Person after taking food should walk for a hundred feet slowly , that way reduces the heavyness of the body and aid in easy digestion of consumed food.

Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
caṅkramaṇa (चंक्रमण).—n S (Elliptically for śākhācaṅkramaṇa The skipping from branch to branch of a monkey &c.) Discursive or desultory study.
caṅkramaṇa (चंक्रमण).—n Discursive or desultory study.
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
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण).—a. [kram yaṅ lyuṭ yaño luk Tv.]
1) Moving about, taking exercise.
2) Going slowly or crookedly.
3) Moving or going about, walking; विष चङ्क्रमणं रात्रौ (viṣa caṅkramaṇaṃ rātrau) Chāṇ.97; चक्रे स चक्रेनिभचङ्क्रमणच्छलेन (cakre sa cakrenibhacaṅkramaṇacchalena) N.1.144; स्वजन्मना चङ्क्रमणेन चाञ्चति (svajanmanā caṅkramaṇena cāñcati) Bhāgavata 1.1.26.
4) Going slowly or tortuously.
5) Leap, jump, spring; Pañcatantra (Bombay) 4.
Derivable forms: caṅkramaṇam (चङ्क्रमणम्).
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण).—nt. (= Pali caṅkamana; in sense of caṅkrama 4; in Sanskrit °ṇa only n. act., walking, strolling), place of promenade (for a monk): (tavārthāya divyāni sauvarṇamayāni) °ṇāni kariṣyāmaḥ Kāraṇḍavvūha 42.21; svakasva- kāni caṅkramaṇāni 65.1; 66.6; in both of these followed by forms of caṅkrama, q.v., in the same sense, referring to places of promenade.
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण).—mfn.
(-ṇaḥ-ṇā-ṇaṃ) who or what goes slowly or crookedly. n.
(-ṇaṃ) Going, proceeding, going tortuously or slowly. E. kram to go, and the root reiterated. krama + yaṅ lyuṭ yañoluk.
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण).—i. e. caṅkram ([frequentative.] of kram) + ana, n. Going, walking, [Pañcatantra] 209, 1.
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण).—[adjective] walking; [neuter] = [preceding]
1) Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण):—[from caṅkrama] mfn. going about, walking, [Pāṇini 3-2, 150]
2) [v.s. ...] going slowly or crookedly, [Horace H. Wilson]
3) [v.s. ...] n. going about, walking, [Āpastamba-dharma-sūtra; Suśruta; Pañcatantra; Cāṇakya; Bhāgavata-purāṇa; Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa]
4) [v.s. ...] going tortuously or slowly, [Horace H. Wilson]
5) [v.s. ...] rotation (of a wheel), [Siṃhāsana-dvātriṃśikā or vikramāditya-caritra, jaina recension xvii, 2]
6) [v.s. ...] a place for walking about, [Kāraṇḍa-vyūha xii, 79; xviii, 91 and 112.]
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण):—[(ṇaḥ-ṇā-ṇaṃ) a.] Going, slowly, crookedly, n. A going slowly.
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण):—(vom intens. von kram)
1) adj. oxyt. herumgehend, sich Bewegung machend [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 2, 150.] —
2) n. das Herumgehen, Herumstreichen, Spazierengehen [Cāṇakya 97.] [Suśruta 1, 69, 17. 362, 20. 2, 111, 5. 143, 2.] [Pañcatantra 209, 1.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 10, 26. 3, 21, 50. 4, 31, 5.] acaṅkramaṇaśīla [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 16, 19.]
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण):——
1) Adj. umhergehend , -schreitend , spazierend [Indische sprüche 7749.] —
2) n. — a) das Umherstreichen , -schreiten , Spazierengehen [Āpastamba’s Dharmasūtra] — b) das Rollen [Indische studien von Weber 15,371.] — c) Spazierplatz [Kāraṇḍavyūha 42,21.65,1.66,6.]
Caṅkramaṇa (चङ्क्रमण) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Caṃkamaṇa.
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
Caṃkramaṇa (ಚಂಕ್ರಮಣ):—[noun] the act, fact or an instance of moving from one place to another.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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