Gimha: 3 definitions
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Gimha means something in Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India. 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.
India history and geography
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical GlossaryGimha.—(CII 4), Prakrit; same as Sanskrit grīṣma; name of a season consisting of eight fortnights or four months. Note: gimha is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
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Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarygimha : (m.) heat; hot season.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryGimha, (Vedic grīṣma) I. (sg.) heat, in special application to the atmosphere: hot part (of the day or year), hot season, summer; a summer month. Always used in Loc. as a designation of time. 1. of the day: VvA.40 (°samaye; v. l. gimhānamāse).—2. of summer: usually in combination w. and in contrast to hemanta winter: hemanta-gimhisu in w. & s. Dh.286 (cp. gimhika for °isu). Miln.274; Dpvs.I, 55; Vism.231 (°âbhitatta worn out by the heat); Sdhp.275 (°kāle). In enumeration w. other seasons: vasse hemante gimhe Nd2 631 (sadā); vasanta gimhādika utū PvA.135.—3. of a summer month; paṭhamasmiṃ gimhe Sn.233 (see KhA 192 for explanation) — II. (pl.) gimhā the hot months, the season of summer, in °naṃ pacchime māse, in the last month of summer M.I, 79; S.III, 141; V, 50, 321; Vv 795 (=āsāḷhimāse VvA.307). (Page 251)
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.
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Starts with: Gimha-lacchi, Gimhana, Gimhatittha.
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Vinaya Pitaka (3): Khandhaka (by I. B. Horner)
On when a robe becomes the Saṅgha’s < [8. Robes (Cīvara)]
Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification) (by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu)
The Material Septad < [Chapter XX - Purification by Knowledge and Vision of the Path and the Not-path]
Natyashastra (English) (by Bharata-muni)