Ceta, Ceṭa, Cetā, Cētā: 29 definitions
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Ceta means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Hindi, Tamil. 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 Cheta.
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In Hinduism
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Ceṭa (चेट) refers to “menials” (servants, slaves etc.), whose mask should be represented as having either three śikhās (tuft of hair at crown of head) or a shaven head (śiromuṇḍa), according to Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 23. Providing masks is a component of nepathya (costumes and make-up) and is to be done in accordance with the science of āhāryābhinaya (extraneous representation).
According to the Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 35, “a servant (ceṭa) be should be fond of quarrel, garrulous, uncouth in form and give service under bondage, and be expert in distinguishing between persons who are to be honoured and who are not”.
Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
Ayurveda (science of life)
Ceta (चेत):—[cetaḥ] Psyche or mind
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.
Kavya (poetry)
Ceṭa (चेट) (or Ceṭī) in Sanskrit (or Ceḍī in Prakrit) refers to a “servant, slave”, as is mentioned in the Vividhatīrthakalpa by Jinaprabhasūri (13th century A.D.): an ancient text devoted to various Jaina holy places (tīrthas).—(CDIAL 4902; ST p. 17).
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
Shaktism
Cetā (चेता) refers to a “sentient being”, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, “[...] Thus, O god, beyond the god, transcendent and primordial (ādyā), she resides within Saṃvartā. And so she is omniscient, the agent (of all action), the energy Śāmbhavī elucidated in the Ciñciṇīmata who emanates the cosmic form. Above, the sentient being of consciousness (caitanya-cetā) should contemplate the plane of the unfolding (emanation) (prasarabhūmikā). (Kubjikā, who is also called) Kulālikā, sports (ramate) (there) by filling (bharaṇāt) the Lion (who embodies the tradition). Silent (anādinī) and unmanifest (nirābhāsā), she has dissolved (away) into the End of the Sixteen [...]”.
Cetā (चेता) refers to one of the “thousand names of Kumārī”, as mentioned in the Kumārīsahasranāma, which is included in the 10th chapter of the first part (prathamabhāga) of the Rudrayāmala-Uttaratantra: an ancient Tantric work primarily dealing with the practice of Kuṇḍalinī-yoga, the worship of Kumārī and discussions regarding the Cakras. This edition is said to be derived of the Rudrayāmalatantra and consists of 6000 verses in 90 chapters (paṭalas) together with the Saralā-Hindīvyākhyopetam (i.e., the Rudrayamalam Uttaratantram with Sarala Hindi translation).—Cetā is mentioned in śloka 1.10.49.—The chapter notes that one is granted the rewards obtained by reciting the text even without the performance of pūjā (worship), japa, snāna (bathing) and puraścaryā.
Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Ceṭā (चेटा) [=Ceṣṭā?] refers to the “motions, conjunctions and the like” (of the planets), according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “And in horoscopy, the Jyotiṣaka must know such divisions of space as rāśi (a sign of Zodiac or a space of 30°), horā (15° or half a sign), drekkana (10° or one third of a sign), navāṃśaka (3° 20' or one-ninth of a sign), dvādaśāṃśaka (2° 30' or one twelfth of a sign), triṃśāṃśaka (one-thirtieth of a sign), and their strength or weakness considered horoscopically; he must know the horoscopic strength of the planets with respect to their Dik (direction), Sthāna (place), Kāla, (time) Ceṭā (motions, conjunctions and the like)”.
Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
Shyanika-shastra (the science of Hawking and Hunting)
Ceṭa (चेट) refers to one of the eight kinds of Yellow-Eyed Hawks (known as the Pāṭalākṣā division), according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, [while discussing the training of hawks]: “There are different ways of taming them according to the species to which they belong. There are two distinctly separate divisions, namely, ‘black-eyed’ and ‘yellow-eyed’ [e.g., Ceṭa]. The subdivisions of these are many. ”.
Shyanika-shastra (श्यैनिकशास्त्र, śyainikaśāstra) deals with ancient Indian skill of hawking/falconry (one of the ways of hunting) which were laid down in a systematic manner in various Sanskrit treatises. It also explains the philosophy behind how the pleasures derived from sense-experience could lead the way to liberation.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
1. A kingdom through which Vessantara passed on his way from Jetuttara.
2. Vessantaras uncle ruled in Ceta, and it was ten leagues from Dunnivittha (J.vi.514ff; Cyp.i.9, vs.38f).
3. The women of Ceta are called Cetiya (J.vi.514).
4. Ceta is probably another name for Cetiya.
5. The people of Cetiya. J.i.256; vi.516.
6. Daughter in law of Vidhura and Anujja. J.vi.290.
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).
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Ceṭa (चेट) refers to a group of beings mentioned as attending the teachings in the 6th century Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa: one of the largest Kriyā Tantras devoted to Mañjuśrī (the Bodhisattva of wisdom) representing an encyclopedia of knowledge primarily concerned with ritualistic elements in Buddhism. The teachings in this text originate from Mañjuśrī and were taught to and by Buddha Śākyamuni in the presence of a large audience (including the Ceṭas).
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
India history and geography
Ceta (चेत) refers to one of the twelve months mentioned in the Bārāmāso (dealing with poetry and riddles), which is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The months are described in the following sequence: [e.g., Ceta] [...]. The tone is that of an evocation of the sounds and things seen during each of the twelve months akin to love poetry (sājana, mere sājana) and profane twelve months songs. But as the poem unfolds the religious tone increases, with reference to ‘the good teacher’ and presence of Jain terms so that this work is also close to Aupadeśik Bāramāso [...]
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
ceta : (m.; nt.) (mano-group), thought; intention; purpose. || ceṭa (m.), a servant boy.
Ceṭa, a servant, a boy J. III, 478. See next. (Page 271)
1) ceta (စေတ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[ceta+ṇa]
[စေတ+ဏ]
2) ceta (စေတ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[cita+ṇa¿]
[စိတ+ဏ¿]
3) ceta (စေတ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[cita+ṇa．cetetīti ceto,cita saṃcetane,ṇo．sūci．194．cinta+ṇa．cintethīti cittaṃ．ceto ca,nalopo．,ṭī,152．(ce,saṃ)]
[စိတ+ဏ။ စေတေတီတိ စေတော၊ စိတ သံစေတနေ၊ ဏော။ သူစိ။ ၁၉၄။ စိန္တ+ဏ။ စိန္တေထီတိ စိတ္တံ။ စေတော စ၊ နလောပေါ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ၊ ၁၅၂။ (စေတသ်၊ သံ)]
4) cetā (စေတာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[¿]
[¿]
5) ceṭa (စေဋ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ciṭa+ṇa．,ṭī．514-．]
[စိဋ+ဏ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၅၁၄-ကြည့်။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) ceta—
(Burmese text): (၁) အာရုံကို သိတတ်သော သဘောတရား၊ စိတ်။ (၂) မိမိနှင့်အတူတကွ သမ္ပယုတ်တရားတို့ကို အာရုံ၌-စေ့စပ်-နှိုးဆော်-တိုက်တွန်း-ကြောင့်ကြစိုက်-တတ်သော သဘောတရား၊ စေတနာစေတသိက်။ (၃) အာရုံကို စူးစူးစိုက်စိုက် ရှုဆင်ခြင်တတ်သော သဘောတရား၊ ဧကဂ္ဂတာ။ စေတောဝိမုတ္တိ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၄) သူတစ်ပါးတို့၏ အကျိုးစီးပွါးကို ဖြစ်စေတတ်သော သဘောတရား၊ မေတ္တာ။ (တိ) (၅) ညှဉ်းဆဲ-သတ်ဖြတ်-တတ်သော၊ သူ။ တံငါမုဆိုး။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The principle of awareness, the mind. (2) The principle that encourages - inspires - urges - causes the attention to connect with the fundamental truths together with oneself, having compassion and understanding. (3) The principle that carefully contemplates with focused awareness, the insight. Also observe the nature of compassion. (4) The principle that can contribute to the well-being of others, love. (5) Able to control and master, one. The one who is a guardian.
2) ceta—
(Burmese text): စေတတိုင်း။
(Auto-Translation): Every prayer.
3) ceta—
(Burmese text): စေတတိုင်း၌ နေသော၊ သူ။
(Auto-Translation): He who lives in every place.
4) cetā—
(Burmese text): [¿]
စေတာမည်သော မိန်းမ။
(Auto-Translation): [¿] A woman who will be laughed at.
5) ceṭa—
(Burmese text): (၁) ငယ်သောသူ၊ သူငယ်။ (၂) စေခိုင်းအပ်သော သူ၊ ကျေးကျွန်၊ အစေခံ။ စေဋက-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Young person, friend. (2) A person who is asked to serve, a servant, someone who is subordinate. Look at the term - service.
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.
Marathi-English dictionary
cēṭa (चेट).—f cēṭaka n ( H) Sorcery or witchcraft. 2 fig. Guile, cunning, wiles, arts; evil machinations; wicked scheming and devising.
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cēṭā (चेटा).—m A son. Little known in Maraṭhi except in Pr. suiṇīpuḍhēṃ cēṭā lapaṇāra nāhīṃ.
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cēta (चेत).—a (Corr. from acētana S) Senseless or motionless. 2 Commonly cīta.
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cēta (चेत).—f m Kindling, catching, taking fire. v ghē, yē.
cēṭa (चेट).—f cēṭaka n Sorcery. Guile.
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cēta (चेत).—a Motionless. f m Kindling. Catch- ing fire.
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
Ceṭa (चेट).—[ciṭ ac, vā ṭasya ḍaḥ] A servant; एतत्तस्य मुखाच्छ्रुत्वा राजचेटस्य दुर्मनाः (etattasya mukhācchrutvā rājaceṭasya durmanāḥ) Kathāsaritsāgara 6.127.
Derivable forms: ceṭaḥ (चेटः).
See also (synonyms): ceḍa.
Ceṭa (चेट).—m.
(-ṭaḥ) A servant, a salve. f. (-ṭī) A female servant. E. ciṭ to serve, affix ac also with kan added ceṭaka. f. ceṭikā; also ceḍa, &c.
Ceṭa (चेट).—m. f. ṭī, A slave, a servant, Kāthas. 6, 127; [Rāmāyaṇa] 2, 91, 62.
Ceṭa (चेट).—[masculine] ī [feminine] male & female servant.
1) Ceṭa (चेट):—m. a servant, slave, [Mṛcchakaṭikā; Kathāsaritsāgara vi, 127] (ifc.), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa]
2) a kind of fish, [Āpastamba-dharma-sūtra i, 17, 38]
Ceṭa (चेट):—[(ṭaḥ-ṭī)] 1. m. 3. f. A servant.
Ceṭa (चेट):—
1) m. Diener, Sclave [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 360.] [Mṛcchakaṭikā 129, 10. fg.] [Sāhityadarpana 77. 85.] rāja [Kathāsaritsāgara 6, 127.] garbha Sclave von Geburt (vgl. garbhadāsa) [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 153. 6, 235.] —
2) f. ī Dienerin, Sclavin [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 534.] preṣyāśceṭyaśca [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 91, 62.] [Śākuntala 77, 11.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 4, 40. 43. 12, 59.] [Bharata] zu [Śākuntala 5, 2.] [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 7, 15.]
Ceṭa (चेट):——
1) m. — a) Diener , Sclave. — b) ein best. Fisch [Āpastamba’s Dharmasūtra 1,17,38.] —
2) f. ī Dienerin , Sclavin.
Ceta (चेत) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Cea, Ceḍa, Ceḍaga, Ceḍaya.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Ceta (चेत) [Also spelled chet]:—(nm) consciousness; senses.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Cēṭa (ಚೇಟ):—[noun] a man employed for personal or menial work; a servant.
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Cēta (ಚೇತ):—[noun] = ಚೇತನ [cetana]2 - 1.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Tamil dictionary
Cētā (சேதா) noun < சேது¹ [sethu¹] + ஆ. [a.] Tawny-coloured cow; சிவப்புப் பசு. சிலம்பின் மேய்ந்த சிறு கோட்டுச் சேதா [sivappup pasu. silambin meyntha siru kottus setha] (நற்றிணை [narrinai] 359).
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Cēṭā (சேடா) noun Caṭai-p-pūrāṉ, centipede; சடைப்பூரான். [sadaippuran.] Tinnevelly usage
Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Nepali dictionary
Ceta (चेत):—n. 1. consciousness; 2. conscience; wits; senses; 3. memory; recollection; 4. mind; heart;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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Partial matches (+0): Cita, Ceta, Na.
Starts with (+28): Ceta-cetipavam, Cetacuram, Cetakkalan, Cetakkiriyai, Cetakkol, Cetakkutumpi, Cetanir, Cetapamokkha, Cetapatam, Cetaputta, Cetaraja, Cetarattha, Cetarupa, Cetasa, Cetasika, Cetavattil, Cetobadhanadukkha, Cetobhisankhara, Cetodukkha, Cetoggahana.
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