Dvaigunya, Dvaiguṇya: 8 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dvaiguṇya (द्वैगुण्य).—

1) Double amount, value or measure.

2) Duality.

3) The possession of two out of the three qualities सत्त्व, रजस् (sattva, rajas) and तमस् (tamas).

Derivable forms: dvaiguṇyam (द्वैगुण्यम्).

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

Dvaiguṇya (द्वैगुण्य).—n.

(-ṇyaṃ) 1. Duality. 2. The possession of two out of the three qualities. 3. Doubling. E. dviguṇa and aṇ aff.

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

Dvaiguṇya (द्वैगुण्य).— i. e. dvi-guṇa + ya, n. Double the amount, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 151.

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

Dvaiguṇya (द्वैगुण्य).—[neuter] the double, double the amount, value, measure, etc.

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

1) Dvaiguṇya (द्वैगुण्य):—[=dvai-guṇya] [from dvai] n. doubling or the double, [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] duality, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) [v.s. ...] the possession of 2 out of the 3 qualities, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Dvaiguṇya (द्वैगुण्य):—[dvai-guṇya] (ṇyaṃ) 1. n. Two qualities.

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Dvaigunya 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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