Deha: 31 definitions
Introduction:
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Alternative spellings of this word include Deh.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Deha (देह) refers to “the anabolic character of the lving body”. The term is used throughout Ayurvedic literature such as the Suśruta-saṃhitā and the Caraka-saṃhitā.
1) Deha (देह):—The living body. Indicative of growth in the bodily tissues.
2) [dehaḥ] Body
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.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Deha (देह) refers to the “body”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.1.12, while explaining details of worship:—“[...] as long as there is a vestige of sin in the body (deha), achievement need not be expected. When the sin is wiped off, all rites will bear fruit. If there is dirt in the cloth the dyeing process cannot be carried out effectively. After the cloth is bleached any dye can be applied to it effectively. Similarly when the body (deha) is freed of its dirty stuff by proper worship of deities, the dye of knowledge can stick to it whence true knowledge will arise”.
1a) Deha (देह).—Human body; as a temple; philosophical interpretation of.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa IV. 43. 53-54 ff.
1b) One of the twenty Amitābha gaṇas.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 100. 17.
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.
Shilpashastra (iconography)
Deha (देह) refers to one of the forty-seven tānas (tone) used in Indian music.—The illustration of Deha (as a deity) according to 15th-century Indian art is as follows.—The colour of bis body is yellow. His face is similar to the face of a horse. A viṇā is in his both bands.
The illustrations (of, for example Deha) are found scattered throughout ancient Jain manuscripts from Gujarat. The descriptions of these illustrations of this citrāvalī are based on the ślokas of Vācanācārya Gaṇi Sudhākalaśa’s Saṅgītopaniṣatsāroddhāra (14th century) and Śārṅgadeva’s Saṅgītaratnākara (13th century).
Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.
Vaishnavism (Vaishava dharma)
Deha (देह) refers to:—The physical body. (cf. Glossary page from Śrī Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta).
Deha (देह) refers to the “body” (which is to be surrendered by Yoga practitioners following the Puṣṭimārga tradition), according to the Nirodhalakṣaṇa (lit. “characteristics of restraint”) written by Śrī Vallabhācārya for his disciples.— Nirodha refers to “forgetting the material world entirely (and becoming exclusively attached to the Lord/Bhagavān)”. The concept of nirodha in the Puṣṭimārga tradition transcends the yogic definition of cittavṛtti-nirodha (restraining mental modifications). Instead, it represents the total surrender of body (deha), senses, life-force, mind, intellect, ego, and all possessions toward Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s service. It is characterized by profound experiences of union and separation.
Vaishnava (वैष्णव, vaiṣṇava) or vaishnavism (vaiṣṇavism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshipping Vishnu as the supreme Lord. Similar to the Shaktism and Shaivism traditions, Vaishnavism also developed as an individual movement, famous for its exposition of the dashavatara (‘ten avatars of Vishnu’).
Vastushastra (architecture)
Deha (देह) refers to an “(architectural) site”, according to the Devyāmata (in the section śalyoddhāra-paṭala or “excavation of extraneous substances”).—Accordingly, “Next, I shall, as told before, teach the characteristics of extraneous substances, which exist beneath the site and cause calamities to people. When the site, which has been made square, is being divided with cords, [the officiant] who has knowledge of divisions of the site (vāstu-deha-vibhāgajña) should investigate extraneous substances by omens, etc. [...]”.
Vastushastra (वास्तुशास्त्र, vāstuśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science (shastra) of architecture (vastu), dealing with topics such architecture, sculpture, town-building, fort building and various other constructions. Vastu also deals with the philosophy of the architectural relation with the cosmic universe.
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Deha (देह) refers to the “body” (which a true Yogī is not concerned with), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Janaka says to Aṣṭavakra]: “In my unblemished nature there are no elements, no body (deha), no faculties, no mind. [kva bhūtāni kva deho vā kvendriyāṇi kva vā manaḥ] There is no void and no anguish. For me, free from the sense of dualism, there are no scriptures, no self-knowledge, no mind free from an object, no satisfaction and no freedom from desire. [...]”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Deha (देह) refers to a class of piśāca deities according to both the Digambara and Śvetāmbara traditions of Jainism. The piśācas refer to a category of vyantaras gods which represents one of the four classes of celestial beings (devas).
The deities such as Dehas are defined in ancient Jain cosmological texts such as the Saṃgrahaṇīratna in the Śvetāmbara tradition or the Tiloyapaṇṇati by Yativṛṣabha (5th century) in the Digambara tradition.
Deha (देह) participated in the war between Rāma and Rāvaṇa, on the side of the latter, as mentioned in Svayambhūdeva’s Paumacariu (Padmacarita, Paumacariya or Rāmāyaṇapurāṇa) chapter 57ff. Svayambhū or Svayambhūdeva (8th or 9th century) was a Jain householder who probably lived in Karnataka. His work recounts the popular Rāma story as known from the older work Rāmāyaṇa (written by Vālmīki). Various chapters [mentioning Deha] are dedicated to the humongous battle whose armies (known as akṣauhiṇīs) consisted of millions of soldiers, horses and elephants, etc.
1) Deha (देह) refers to the “body”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “Or, the Supreme Soul is not perceived through its own nature which is unknown. The individual self is to be ascertained first in order to discern the Supreme Soul. Further, there may not be an abiding in the self for one who is ignorant of the real state of the self. Hence he fails to distinguish between the nature of the body and the self (deha-dehin—kartuṃ svarūpaṃ dehadehinoḥ)”.
Synonyms: Śarīra, Vapus, Kalevara.
2) Deha (देह) (Cf. Vapus) refers to the “body”, according to the Yaśastilaka Campū verse 2.123-214.—Accordingly, “Never imagine that thou art composed of the body (deha-ātmaka), because the body (vapus) is utterly different from thee. Thou art all consciousness, an abode of virtue and bliss; whereas the body, because it is inert, is an unconscious mass. The body exists and grows so long as thou art in existence. When thou art dead, it disappears in the form of earth, air and the like. Composed of the elements it is devoid of feelings such as joy, like a corpse. Hence the blissful self is surely different from the body.
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
deha : (m. nt.) the body.
Deha, (Sk. deha to *dheigh to form, knead, heap up (cp. kāya=heap), see diddha. So also in uddehaka. Cp. Kern, Toev. p. 75 s. v. sarīradeha. Cp. Gr. teίxos (wall)=Sk. dehī; Lat. fingo & figura; Goth. deigan (knead)=Ohg. teig=E. dough) body A.II, 18; PvA.10, 122. Usually in foll. phrases: hitvā mānusaṃ dehaṃ S.I, 60; Pv.II, 956; pahāya m. d. S.I, 27, 30; jahati d. M.II, 73; °ṃ nikkhipati Pv.II, 615; (muni or khīṇāsavo) antima-deha-dhārin (°dhāro) S.I, 14, 53; II, 278; Sn.471; Th.II, 7, 10; It.32, 40, 50, 53. °nikkhepana laying down the body Vism.236. (Page 331)
deha (ဒေဟ) [(pu,na) (ပု၊န)]—
[diha+ṇa．diha upacaye,dihati vaḍḍhati ettha kusalākusalanti deho．ayaṃ deha-saddo purise purisaliṅge vattati．,ṭī．151．diha upacaye,ṇo．,ṭī．sūci．27va．dehoti sarīraṃ．nīti,dhā．197.]
[ဒိဟ+ဏ။ ဒိဟ ဥပစယေ၊ ဒိဟတိ ဝဍ္ဎတိ ဧတ္ထ ကုသလာကုသလန္တိ ဒေဟော။ အယံ ဒေဟ-သဒ္ဒေါ ပုရိသေ ပုရိသလိင်္ဂေ ဝတ္တတိ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၁၅၁။ ဒိဟ ဥပစယေ၊ ဏော။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ သူစိ။ ၂၇ဝ။ ဒေဟောတိ သရီရံ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာ။ ၁၉၇။]
[Pali to Burmese]
deha—
(Burmese text): (၁) ခန္ဓာကိုယ်၊ အတ္တဘော။ (က) အလောင်းကောင်၊ ဒေဟနိက္ခေပန,ဒေဟပူဇာ-တို့လည်းကြည့်။ (ခ) အပုပ်ကိုယ်၊ အပုပ်ကောင်။ (၂) ကိုယ်အင်္ဂါ၊ ကိုယ်၏အစိတ်အပိုင်း။ ဒေဟက-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Body, ego. (a) The corpse, the physical body, the physical form - also observe. (b) The empty body, the empty form. (2) Body parts, the individual components of the body. The physical body - observe.
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
dēha (देह).—m (S) The body. dēha ugāḷaṇēṃ To wear down one's body (as in service &c.) dēha kāraṇīṃ lāvaṇēṃ g. of o. To spend one's self in the cause of. dēha ṭākaṇēṃ-ṭhēvaṇēṃ-mōḍaṇēṃ To cast off the tabernacle of clay. dēhaṃ vā pātayēt arthaṃ vā sādhayēt Lose one's life or gain one's object. dēhānta ujēḍa paḍaṇēṃ To get light (respecting one's crime or sin) by suffering its penalty. dēhānta asūna vidēhī One, although in the body, living as freed from it; one of subdued affections and desires. dēhāvara asaṇēṃ To be in one's senses or right mind. dēhāvara gāṇēṃ-gīta-abhaṅga-pada-lāvaṇī kavana &c. Used of a kind of Double entendre consisting of allusions to the privities and pudenda of the human body, but bearing spiritual or mystic signification. dēhāvara asaṇēṃ To be wandering or absent in mind. dēhāvara yēṇēṃ To come to one's senses, lit. fig.; to leave off wild tricks or loose practices. dēhīṃ dēvapaṇa dākhaviṇēṃ-āṇaṇēṃ-yēṇēṃ &c. To evince &c. knowledge of Divine or spiritual truth whilst in the body.
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dēha (देह).—m ( P) A village. And dēhahāya, dēhē- hāya, dēhāya m pl ( P) Villages. In notes and official papers.
dēha (देह).—m The body. dēha kāraṇīṃ lāvaṇēṃ Spend one's self in the cause of. dēhāvara asaṇēṃ Be in one's senses or right mind. dēhāvara nasaṇēṃ Be absent in mind; be wild. dēhāvara yēṇēṃ Come to one's senses; leave off mad pranks.
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
Deha (देह).—[dih-ghañ]
1) The body; देहं दहन्ति दहना इव गन्धवाहाः (dehaṃ dahanti dahanā iva gandhavāhāḥ) Bv.1.14.
2) A form, shape, bulk, mass,
3) A person, an individual.
4) An appearance, a manifestation. -हः (haḥ) Anointing, smearing.
-hī A rampart, wall, mound.
Derivable forms: dehaḥ (देहः), deham (देहम्).
Deha (देह).—mn.
(-haḥ-haṃ) The body. E. diha to collect together, affix ghañ .
Deha (देह).—i. e. dih + a, m. and n. The body, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 6, 40.
Deha (देह).—[masculine] [neuter] body, person, [abstract] tva [neuter]; [feminine] dehī mound, wall.
Deha (देह) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—(?) by Rāmānuja. Rice. 148.
1) Deha (देह):—mn. (√dih, to plaster, mould, fashion) the body, [Taittirīya-āraṇyaka; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Manu-smṛti] etc.
2) (in a triad with manas and vāc), [Manu-smṛti i, 104 etc.]
3) (haṃdhāraya, to support the body id est. exist, [Nalopākhyāna])
4) form, shape, mass, bulk (as of a cloud; ifc. f(ā). ), [Varāha-mihira]
5) person, individual, [Subhāṣitāvali]
6) appearance, manifestation ifc. having the appearance of (saṃdeha-, [Bālarāmāyaṇa iii, 43/44])
7) Name of a country, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Deha (देह):—[(haḥ-haṃ)] 1. m. n. The body.
Deha (देह):—(von dih)
1) m. n. gaṇa ardharcādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.2,4,31.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.3,5,11.] [Siddhāntakaumudī 251,b,5.] Körper [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 2, 22.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 563.] [Taittirīyāraṇyaka 1, 27, 5. 10, 13.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 6, 18.] asya visraṃsamānasya śarīrasthasya dehinaḥ . dehādvimucyamānasya kimatra pariśiṣyate .. [Kaṭhopaniṣad 5, 4.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 6, 40.] dehādutkramaṇam (antarātmanaḥ) [63.] tyajannimaṃ deham (vgl. dehatyāga) 78. dehasyāsya vimocanāt [Nalopākhyāna 12, 64.] sādhayeddehamātmanaḥ [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 248.] kṣapayeddeham [5, 157.] śoṣayeddehamātmanaḥ [6, 24.] dehamātmanaḥ dhārayati so v. a. lebt [Nalopākhyāna 16, 16.] dehaṃ dhārayatīṃ dīnam [14.] manas, vāc, deha [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 1, 104. 5, 165. fg. 9, 29. 12, 3. -] [Harivaṃśa 8159. fg.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 4, 12.] [Kapila 1, 14.] [Suśruta 1, 124, 9. 150, 10.] [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 13.] [Hitopadeśa 40, 18.] vom Körper der Gestirne (vgl. tanu) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 8 (9).] Am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Kumārasaṃbhava 1, 21.] [Ṛtusaṃhāra 4, 14.] [Pañcatantra 37, 6.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 43, 52.] [Caurapañcāśikā 21.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 6, 21.] Der Körper heisst deha wohl nicht daher, weil er die Seele verunreinigt, wie angenommen worden ist, sondern weil er gleichsam den Bewurf, den Umwurf, die Ueberkleidung der Seele bildet. Vgl. im Zend pairidaeza. —
2) f. dehī gaṇa gaurādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 41.] Aufwurf, Damm, Wall: yo de.yo..anamayadvadha.naiḥ [Ṛgveda 7, 6, 5.] vi nava.iṃ nava ca de.yo..han [6, 47, 2.]
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Deha (देह):—
1) so v. a. Person [Spr. (II) 3763.]
Deha (देह):——
1) m. n. ([Mṛcchakaṭika 172,15]) — a) Körper. Auch von der Masse eines Gestirns und einer Wolke ([220,20]). Am Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā. — b) Person. — c) am Ende eines adj. Comp. Erscheinungsform. saṃdeha so v.a. sich als Zweifel äussernd [Bālarāmāyaṇa 70,1.] —
2) f. dehī Aufwurf , Damm , Wall.
Deha (देह) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Deha.
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
Deha (देह) [Also spelled deh]:—(nf) body, person; physique; soma; ~[tyāga] voluntary end of life, abandonment of the physical form; -[dharma] physical/bodily functions; corporeal requirements; ~[dharmī] somatic; ~[dhārī] possessing a physical form/body; corporeal; ~[pāta] death; ~[vijñāna] somatology; ~[sāra] somaplasm; —[ko laganā] to nourish the body; —[curānā] (said of a woman) to conceal one’s youthfulness/physical charm; —[choḍanā] to die; —[ṭūṭanā] to feel pain in the body (due to strain, exhaustion, exertion or fever); —[ḍhalanā] physical decay/decline to set in; to become loose and lustreless; to lose muscularity; —[dharanā] to be born; to acquire a physical form; —[dhare ko daṃḍa hai saba kāhū ko hoya] its the way of all flesh; —[meṃ āga laganā] to get infuriated/enraged.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Deha (देह) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Deha.
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
Dēha (ದೇಹ):—[noun] the physical structure and material substance of an animal, living or dead; the body.
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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Starts with (+21): Dehabaddha, Dehabadhe, Dehabandha, Dehabhaj, Dehabhana, Dehabhanagollu, Dehabhava, Dehabheda, Dehabhimana, Dehabhinikkhanta, Dehabhrit, Dehabhuj, Dehabidu, Dehacara, Dehacarya, Dehacyuta, Dehada, Dehadadhrya, Dehadaha, Dehadamdane.
Full-text (+523): Dehin, Dehatyaga, Samdeha, Videha, Vajradeha, Dehadharin, Dehadharana, Lingadeha, Dehali, Dehayatra, Dehambhara, Dehabhrit, Dehala, Dehavisarjana, Sthuladeha, Dehavarana, Dehadharma, Dehavat, Upadeha, Anudeham.
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The body in early Hatha Yoga (by Ruth Westoby)
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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
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Verse 2.16.15 < [Chapter 16 - The Worship of Tulasī]
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Mundaka Upanishad (Madhva commentary) (by Srisa Chandra Vasu)
Chapter 6 - Third Mundaka, Second Khanda
Chapter 4 - Second Mundaka, Second Khanda
The Nervous System in Yoga and Tantra (Study) (by Ashok Majumdar)
3. Pancha-kosha, Three forms of Deha and Four States of Consciousness < [Chapter 3 - Scientific exposition of Nadi, Hridaya, Kosa and Prana]
4.3. Five Kinds of Prana < [Chapter 3 - Scientific exposition of Nadi, Hridaya, Kosa and Prana]
6. The concept of Cakra (psychic centres) < [Chapter 5 - Exposition of Thought science, Tantra and Mantra]
Abhijnana Sakuntalam (with translation and notes) (by Bidhubhusan Goswami)
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