Ghatiyantra, Ghaṭīyantra, Ghati-yantra, Ghatiyamtra: 13 definitions
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Ghatiyantra means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, 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.
In Hinduism
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: Google Books: Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences (Astronomy)Ghaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र) is another name for Ghaṭikāyantra refers to a “water clock” used for telling the time, according to Āryabhaṭa’s Āryabhaṭasiddhānta.—(Cf. Astronomical instruments in Bhāskarācārya’s Siddhāntaśiromaṇi).—Accordingly, “One should get a hemispherical bowl made of copper, 10 palas in weight, six aṅgulas in height, and twelve aṅgulas in diameter at the top. At the bottom thereof, let a hole be made by a needle eight aṅgulas in length and 1 pala in weight. This is the ghaṭikā-yantra, (so named) because it is filled by water in a period of 60 palas (i.e. one ghaṭī). Any copper vessel made according to one's liking with a hole in the bottom, which sinks into water 60 times in a day and night, is the water instrument called Kapāla”—(Kripa Shankar Shukla’s translation).
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.
India history and geography
Source: Google Books: Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences (history)Ghaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र) or Ghaṭikā refers to a “water clock of the sinking bowl”.—From about the fourth century A.D. up to recent times the water clock of the sinking bowl type (Ghaṭikā or Ghaṭīyantra) has been the chief device in India for measuring time. The instrument consists of a hemispherical bowl (ghaṭikā or ghaṭī) with a minute perforation at the bottom. When this bowl is placed on the surface of water in a larger vessel or basin (kuṇḍa, kuṇḍikā, kuṇḍī), water slowly percolates into the bowl through the perforation. When the bowl is full, it sinks to the bottom of the vessel with a clearly audible thud. The weight of the vessel and the size of the perforation are so regulated that the bowl sinks sixty times in a nychthemeron (ahorātra). Thus the time taken for filling the bowl once is one-sixtieth part of a nychthemeron, or twenty-four minutes. This was the standard unit of time measurement in India and is called ghaṭikā or ghaṭī after the name of the bowl. The ghaṭikā is subdivided into sixty vighaṭikās, which are also called palas.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical GlossaryGhaṭi-yantra.—(EI 14), a clock. Cf. ghaḍiyāramu. Note: ghaṭi-yantra is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryghaṭīyantra (घटीयंत्र).—n S Any contrivance for measuring time,--the metal sinking cup, an hour-glass, a clock, a watch. 2 The Persian waterwheel.
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
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryGhaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र).—
1) a machine for raising water (largely used in India), the rope and bucket of a well; see अरघट्ट, घटीयन्त्रगुणोपमः (araghaṭṭa, ghaṭīyantraguṇopamaḥ) (hāraḥ) Vikr.8.33.
2) a contrivance (like a clepsydra) to ascertain the ghaṭikās or time of the day.
3) Diarrhœa; Bhāvapr.7.16.24.
Derivable forms: ghaṭīyantram (घटीयन्त्रम्).
Ghaṭīyantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ghaṭī and yantra (यन्त्र).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryGhaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र).—n.
(-ntraṃ) The rope and bucket of a well, or any machine for raising water. E. ghaṭa effort, and yantra machine.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryGhaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र).—n. the rope and bucket of a well, Mārk. P. 12, 20.
Ghaṭīyantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ghaṭī and yantra (यन्त्र).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryGhaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र).—[neuter] machine for raising water.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Ghaṭiyantra (घटियन्त्र):—[=ghaṭi-yantra] [from ghaṭi > ghaṭ] See ṭī-y.
2) Ghaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र):—[=ghaṭī-yantra] [from ghaṭī > ghaṭ] n. the buckets of a well or any machine for raising water, [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa] (once metrically ṭi-y), [Vikramāṅkadeva-carita, by Bilhaṇa viii, 33; Kuvalayānanda 46] (cf. ara-ghaṭṭa)
3) [v.s. ...] a kind of machine to indicate the time with the help of water, [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha xv, 314; Golādhyāya xi, 8 [Scholiast or Commentator]]
4) [v.s. ...] diarrhoea, [Bhāvaprakāśa vii, 16, 24.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryGhaṭīyantra (घटीयन्त्र):—[ghaṭī-yantra] (ntraṃ) 1. n. The rope and bucket of a well.
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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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusGhaṭīyaṃtra (ಘಟೀಯಂತ್ರ):—
1) [noun] a mechanical device for lifting water from a well.
2) [noun] an instrument for measuring time by the trickling of sand, through a small opening from the upper glass bulb to another below it, in a fixed period of time, usu. one hour.
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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Partial matches: Yantra, Ghatin.
Starts with: Ghatiyantraka.
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