Cintana, Cintanā, Cimtana: 21 definitions
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Cintana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Hindi. 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 Chintana.
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Cintana (चिन्तन) refers to “meditation”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.22 (“Description of Pārvatī’s penance”).—Accordingly, as Pārvatī performed her penance: “[...] Since she, the daughter of Himavat, eschewed leaves from her diet she was called Aparṇā by the gods. Then Pārvatī performed great penance standing on one leg and remembering Śiva, she continued muttering the five-syllabled mantra. Clad in barks of trees, wearing matted hair and eager in the meditation of Śiva [i.e., śiva-cintana-saṃsakta], she surpassed even sages by her penance. [...]”.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Yoga (school of philosophy)
Cintana (चिन्तन) refers to “that which happens at will”, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] [Now], I shall define the nature of that highest, mind-free absorption which arises for those devoted to constant practice. [...] Then, by means of an absorption for a period of thirteen days, the best of Yogins attains most wonderously the Siddhi of moving in the ether at will (cintana). [...]”.
Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Cintana (चिन्तन) refers to “contemplating”, according to Pūjyapāda’s Sarvārthasiddhi.—Accordingly, “[...] Even with renunciation of worldly pleasures, meditation accompanied by austerities, propagation of true faith, and auspicious death are rare. If these are achieved, then the attainment of enlightenment has borne fruit. By contemplating (cintana—cintanaṃ bodhidurlabhānuprekṣā) on the difficulty in attaining true faith, one does not become negligent after attaining this rare jewel”.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
cintana : (f.) thinking; thought; consideration.
Cintana, (nt.)=cintā Th.1, 695; Miln.233. (Page 268)
cintana (စိန္တန) [(na,thī) (န၊ထီ)]—
[cintaç citi+yu．thīnitea cintanā]
[စိန္တ,စိတိ+ယု။ ထီ၌ စိန္တနာ]
[Pali to Burmese]
cintana—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) ကြံစည်-စဉ်းစား-တွေးဆ-ဆင်ခြင်-ခြင်း။ (ခ) ကြံစည်-စဉ်းစား-ယုံမှား-တွေးတော-ခြင်း။ (ဂ) ကြံစည်စိုးရိမ်-ပူပန်-ခြင်း။ (ဃ) ကြံစည်-အဓိဋ္ဌာန်-ခြင်း။ (င) ကြံစည်-ရှုကြည့်-ခြင်း။ စိန္တနာပဝတ္တိ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၂) ကြံစည်-စဉ်းစား-တွေးဆ-ဆင်ခြင်-ရာ (အခါ)။ စိန္တနကာလ-ကြည့်။ (၃) သိခြင်း၊ အာရုံကို-ယူခြင်း-ရခြင်း။ စိန္တနဋ္ဌ-ကြည့်။ (တိ) (၄) ကြံစည်-စဉ်းစား-တွေးဆ-ဆင်ခြင်-တတ်သော။ (၅) သိတတ်သော၊ အာရုံကို-ယူတတ်-ရတတ်-သော။ စိန္တနဋ္ဌ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Planning - thinking - contemplating - considering - action. (b) Planning - thinking - doubt - reflecting - action. (c) Planning - worrying - action. (d) Planning - defining - action. (e) Planning - observing - action. Also look at phenomena. (2) Planning - thinking - contemplating - considering - occasions. Look at the period of phenomena. (3) Knowing, understanding - receiving - achieving. Look at the phenomena. (4) (4) Planning - thinking - contemplating - considering - capable of. (5) Knowledgeable, able to understand - can achieve - capable of. Look at the phenomena.
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
cintana (चिंतन).—n (S) Thinking, considering, pondering, reflecting; planning or devising; musing or meditating.
cintana (चिंतन).—n Thinking, pondering; planning.
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
Cintana (चिन्तन) or Cintanā (चिन्तना).—[cint-bhāve lyuṭ]
1) Thinking, thinking of, having an idea of; मनसाऽनिष्टचिन्तनम् (manasā'niṣṭacintanam) Manusmṛti 12.5.
2) Thought, reflection.
3) Anxious thought.
Derivable forms: cintanam (चिन्तनम्).
Cintana (चिन्तन).—[cint + ana], n. 1. Thinking, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 12, 5. 2. Way of thinking, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 5, 200.
Cintana (चिन्तन).—[neuter] thinking of, consideration, reflection; care for ([genetive] or —°).
1) Cintana (चिन्तन):—[from cint] n. thinking, thinking of. reflecting upon
2) [v.s. ...] anxious thought, [Manu-smṛti xii, 5; Mahābhārata; Kathāsaritsāgara; Rājataraṅgiṇī v, 205; Sāhitya-darpaṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] consideration, [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha x;xii, 6ff.]
Cintana (चिन्तन):—(wie eben) n. das Denken: pūrva die frühere Art und Weise zu denken [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 200.] das Denken an Jmd oder Etwas, das Nachdenken über, Sorge um: tataḥ sa rājā sasmāra māmeva tadāhaṃ cintanaṃ jñātvā gatavāṃstasya darśanam [Mahābhārata 12, 1126.] manasāniṣṭacintanam [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 12, 5.] dharma [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1381.] ekacintanamarthānāmanarthajñaiśca cintanam [Mahābhārata 2, 242.] [Sāhityadarpana 35, 17. 20.] ari [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 715.] bhūbhāracintanaiḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 9, 12.]
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Cintana (चिन्तन):—, pūrva [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 200] bedeutet die früheren Sorgen; vgl. [Spr. 4010.] Betrachtung [SARVADARŚANAS. 104, 14. fg. 20. 122, 8. 17.]
Cintana (चिन्तन):—n. —
1) das Gedenken , Denken an , Betrachtung , das Nachdenken über , Sorge um ; die Ergänzung im Gen. oder in Comp. vorangehend. —
2) trübe Gedanken , Sorgen [Indische sprüche 2093.]
Cintana (चिन्तन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Ciṃtaṇa, Ciṃtaṇā.
Cintanā (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 思 [sī]: “think”.
2) 思念 [sī niàn]: “to think deeply about”.
3) 思惟 [sī wéi]: “think”.
4) 思量 [sī liàng]: “think”; “willing and deliberating”.
2) Cintāna (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 思惟 [sī wéi]: “think”.
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
1) Ciṃtana (चिंतन) [Also spelled chintan]:—(nm) thinking: reflection, contemplation; musing; -[manana] contemplation and reflection; thinking and deliberating; ~[śīla] thoughtful, contemplative; hence ~[śīlatā] (nf).
2) Ciṃtanā (चिंतना):—(nf) thinking; thought; contemplation.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Ciṃtaṇa (चिंतण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Cintana.
2) Ciṃtaṇā (चिंतणा) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Cintanā.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Ciṃtana (ಚಿಂತನ):—[noun] = ಚಿಂತನೆ [cimtane].
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Cintana (चिन्तन):—n. thinking; reflecting; meditating; contemplating;
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+0): Cimtanamsha, Cimtanapara, Cimtanashila, Cimtanashilate, Cimtanashile, Cintanai, Cintanaka, Cintanakabaka, Cintanakala, Cintanakara, Cintanamanana, Cintanapanna, Cintanapavatti, Cintanappadhanatta, Cintanarata, Cintanasamattha, Cintanattha, Cintanavasana, Cintanavisesaviraha.
Full-text (+59): Anucintana, Drohacintana, Vicintana, Samcintana, Ekacintana, Praticintana, Dharmacintana, Cimtanashila, Sucintana, Cintanavasana, Cintanapavatti, Cintanapanna, Cintanaka, Cintanavisesaviraha, Laghucintana, Arthacintana, Matrikarthacintana, Atmacintana, Mushtiprashnacintana, Arammanacintana.
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