Chedya: 14 definitions

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Chedya means something in Buddhism, Pali, 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 Chhedya.

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Chedya is a medical term used in Ayurveda meaning "incising".

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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.

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Kama-shastra (the science of Love-making)

Source: Shodhganga: Elements of Art and Architecture in the Trtiyakhanda of the Visnudharmottarapurana (kama)

Chedya (छेद्य) or Viśeṣakacchedya refers to “cutting” (of different designs on Bhūrjapatra for decorating the forehead) which represents one of the “sixty four kinds of Art”, according to the Kāmasūtra of Vātsyāyaṇa.—Indian tradition, basically includes sixty four Art forms are acknowledged. The references of sixty four kinds of kalā are found in the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Śaiva-Tantras, Kāmasūtra of Vātsyāyaṇa etc.

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Kamashastra (कामशास्त्र, kāmaśāstra) deals with ancient Indian science of love-making, passion, emotions and other related topics dealing with the pleasures of the senses.

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In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Chedya (छेद्य) (Cf. Acchedya) refers to “(that which is ) cuttable”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Son of good family, the morality of the Boddhisatvas becomes purified by these eight qualities. [...] Further, as for the purity of morality, [...] open space is all-pervasive, so is the morality; open space is uncuttable and unbreakable (acchedyaacchedyābhedyaṃ gaganam), so is the morality; open space is united in the sameness, so is the morality; open space is essentially beyond impurity, so is the morality. Son of good family, the morality in which the Bodhisattvas are established becomes like open space in such a way. [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

chēdya (छेद्य).—a S (Possible, purposed, necessary &c.) to be cut, split, cleft, severed.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Chedya (छेद्य).—p. p. [chid-ṇyat] To be cut or divided, divisible.

-dyam Amputation.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Chedya (छेद्य).—nt. (also cheda; in this sense not recorded; Pali has chejja-bhejja-, Jātaka (Pali) v.444.22, and chejjā, fem., alone, Vin. iii.47.7, only as forms of punishment; [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] inaccurate), always associated with bhedya; both in lists of military arts, usually as mastered by the young Bodhisattva or another yound prince; precise meaning is never made clear; Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti and on Lalitavistara renders chedya by bcad pa, cutting, and bhedya by dral ba, splitting, tearing asunder: chedyam Mahāvyutpatti 4988, bhedyam 4989; otherwise only in loc., usually listed with other martial arts, chedye and bhedye, Lalitavistara 156.12 and Mahāvastu ii.74.1—2 (here Mahāvastu chede, bhede, and so v.l. elsewhere in Mahāvastu; the young Bodhisattva challenges other Śākya youths to test their skill in such arts); Mahāvastu i.129.5; ii.423.17; 434.13; Divyāvadāna 100.11; 442.7.

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

Chedya (छेद्य).—mfn.

(-dyaḥ-dyā-dyaṃ) To be cut or divided. n.

(-dyaṃ) Amputation, exscission. E. chid to cut, ṇyat aff. chettuṃ yogyaḥ karmaṇi yogyārthe ṇyat .

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

Chedya (छेद्य).—[adjective] = chettavya; [neuter] the act of cutting off etc.

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

1) Chedya (छेद्य):—[from chid] mfn. to be cut or divided or split or cut off or mutilated, [Yājñavalkya ii, 215; Mahābhārata i, 93; xii, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] n. cutting off, cutting, tearing (with teeth or nails), [, v, 5733 (C); Suśruta i, 5, 1; vi; Sāhitya-darpaṇa vi, 17]

3) [v.s. ...] cf. kuḍya-, duḥkka-, pattra-, laghu-, saṃśaya-.

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

Chedya (छेद्य):—[(dyaḥ-dyā-dyaṃ) a.] That may be cut. n. Amputation. Also cheditavya.

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

Chedya (छेद्य) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Chijja, Chejjā.

[Sanskrit to German]

Chedya in German

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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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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Chēdya (ಛೇದ್ಯ):—

1) [adjective] that is to be cut, broken or divided into pieces.

2) [adjective] fit to be or that can be cut, broken or divided.

3) [adjective] that can be divided; divisible.

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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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