Gotama, Gotam: 16 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Gotama (गोतम).—A sage named Gotama, son of Rahūgaṇa, is found everywhere in Ṛgveda. The seventyfourth sūkta in the thirteenth anuvāka of the first maṇḍala of Ṛgveda is composed by this sage. There are many other sūktas also in his name. This sage is not the Gautama, husband of Ahalyā, who made Sūkta 58, Anuvaka 11, Maṇḍala 1 of Ṛgveda.
Once this Gotama tired of thirst asked the Maruts for some water. The Maruts took a huge well to his side and poured water into a big pot. (Sūktas 86, 87, Anuvāka 14, Maṇḍala 1, Ṛgveda).
It was Aśvinīdevas who took the well to Gotama. (Sūkta 116, Anuvaka 17, Maṇḍala 1, Ṛgveda).
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.
India history and geography
Gotama (गोतम) is the name of a mountain situated in Majjhimadesa (Middle Country) of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—According to the description given in the Apadāna the Gotama mountain seems to be not far off from the Himavanta.
Gotam refers to one of the Baise or “twenty-two principalities (hill states) of ancient Nepal”.—Following successive waves of the Muslim invasion of India launched by Mohammed of Ghanzi c. A.D. 999, immigrant Hindu chiefs from Rajasthan are said to have made their way into the hill areas of western Nepal. Over a period of time they carved out principalities for themselves and their progeny in the area which was largely inhabited by various indigenous tribes. Those principalities in the Karnali region of western Nepal [e.g., Gotam] were known as the Baise. Most of these kingdoms lay entirely in the hills, but a few of them had land either in the tarai, the lowland plains adjoining what is now Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
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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Sanskrit dictionary
Gotama (गोतम).—
1) Name of a sage belonging to the family of Aṅgiras, father of Śatānanda and husband of Ahalyā.
2) Name of a sage, the founder of Nyāya philosophy; मुक्तये यः शिलात्वाय शास्त्रमूचे सचेतसाम् । गोतमं तमवेक्ष्यैव (muktaye yaḥ śilātvāya śāstramūce sacetasām | gotamaṃ tamavekṣyaiva) N. 17.75.
Derivable forms: gotamaḥ (गोतमः).
Gotama (गोतम).—MIndic spelling for Gautama, q.v.: Śikṣāsamuccaya 331.11 (here apparently = Gautama 3).
Gotama (गोतम).—m.
(-maḥ) The name of a sage belonging to the family of Angiras father of Satananda; also gautama. gobhistamo dhvastaṃ yasya pṛṣodarāditvāt .
Gotama (गोतम).—m. The name of a Ṛṣi, Mahābhārata 13, 4490.
Gotama (गोतम).—[masculine] the biggest ox; [Name] of [several] men, [plural] their race.
1) Gotama (गोतम):—[=go-tama] [from go] a m. (go-) (superl.) Name of a Ṛṣi belonging to the family of Aṅgiras with the [patronymic] Rāhū-gaṇa (author of [Ṛg-veda i, 74-93]), [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa i, xi, xiv; ṢaḍvBr.] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] (for gaut) Name of the chief disciple of Mahā-vīra
3) [v.s. ...] of a lawyer (cf. gautama)
4) [v.s. ...] of the founder of the Nyāya [philosophy]
5) [v.s. ...] ‘the largest ox’ and ‘Name of the founder of Nyāya [philosophy]’ [Naiṣadha-carita xvii, 75]
6) [v.s. ...] Name of a son of Karṇika, [Buddhist literature]
7) [v.s. ...] ? [Mahābhārata xiii, 4490] (cf. -dama)
8) [v.s. ...] m. [plural] ([Pāṇini 2-4, 65]) the descendants of the Ṛṣi Gotama, [Ṛg-veda; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra xii, 10; Lāṭyāyana]
9) [v.s. ...] n. a kind of poison, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]
10) [=go-tama] b etc. See go, p. 364, col. 2.
Gotama (गोतम):—(maḥ) 1. m. The name of a sage.
Gotama (गोतम):—m. Nomen proprium eines zu den Āṅgirasa gehörigen Ṛṣi, mit dem patron. Rāhūgaṇa, Hymnenverfassers in [Ṛgveda] Maṇḍala [?1. Ṛgveda 1, 62, 13. 78, 2. 85, 11. 4, 4, 11. Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4, 29, 6. 18, 3, 16. The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 1, 4, 1, 10. 11, 4, 3, 20. 14, 5, 2, 6. Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 215. ṢAḌVIṂŚABR. in Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 38. Pariśiṣṭa des Atharvaveda in Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 366.] — Jurist (vgl. gautama) [Colebrooke I, 120.] Gründer des Nyāya [227. 261. fgg.] [352.] [Akademische Vorlesungen 218. fgg.] [MÜLLER] in [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 6, 3, Nalopākhyāna 3. Nalopākhyāna] des 20sten Vyāsa [Viṣṇupurāṇa 273.] ein Sohn Karṇika’s, Königs von Potāla, [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s 232 (2).] f. gotamī gaṇa gaurādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 41.] pl. gotamāḥ die Nachkommen des Gotama [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 4, 65.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 7, 14.] [Ṛgveda 1, 63, 9. 78, 1. 88, 4. 92, 7. 4, 32, 12. 8, 77, 4.] [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 12, 10.] [LĀṬY. 4, 7, 15.] Eine appellative Bed. hat das Wort [Mahābhārata 13, 4490], wo Gautama auf die Frage, wie er heisse, um die Fragende irre zu leiten, antwortet: gotamo hamato dhūmo damaste samadarśanāt . gobhistamo mama dhvastaṃ jātamātrasya dehataḥ . viddhi māṃ gautamaṃ kṛtye u. s. w. — Vgl. gautama .
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Gotama (गोतम):—Nomen proprium und zugleich der grösste Ochs (vgl. gotara unten) [Spr. (II) 4875.] Die Stelle [Mahābhārata 13, 4490] (am Ende des Artikels) lautet in der ed. Bomb.: godamo damato dhūmo damaste sa . viddhi u. s. w. mit Weglassung von gobhistamo u.s.w. [Nīlakaṇṭha] kennt auch unsere Lesart.
Gotama (गोतम):——
1) m. — a) Nomen proprium verschiedener Männer. Pl. ihr Geschlecht. — b) der grösste Ochs. — c) ? [Mahābhārata 13,4490.] —
2) f. ī f. zu gotama 1)a). —
3) *n. ein best. Gift [Galano's Wörterbuch]
Gotama (गोतम) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Goyama.
Gotama (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 喬答摩 [qiáo dá mó]: “Gautama”; “Gotama” [Sanskrit personal name].
2) 瞿曇 [qú tán]: “Gautama”; “Gotama” [Sanskrit personal name].
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.
Pali-English dictionary
1) gotama (ဂေါတမ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[gotama+ṇa．gotamassa putto．rū.365．gotamavaṃsassa kapilassa munino sissatāya sakyā gotamā,bhagavā pana gotamavaṃse uppannattā gotamassa munino apaccaṃ gotamo．,ṭī.4.]
[ဂေါတမ+ဏ။ ဂေါတမဿ ပုတ္တော။ ရူ။၃၆၅။ ဂေါတမဝံသဿ ကပိလဿ မုနိနော သိဿတာယ သကျာ ဂေါတမာ၊ ဘဂဝါ ပန ဂေါတမဝံသေ ဥပ္ပန္နတ္တာ ဂေါတမဿ မုနိနော အပစ္စံ ဂေါတမော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၄။]
2) gotama (ဂေါတမ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ruḷhī]
[ရုဠှီနာမ်ပုဒ်]
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Go, Gotama, Tama, Na.
Starts with (+8): Gotama Buddha, Gotamabuddhasasana, Gotamabuddhasavaka, Gotamadvara, Gotamagaura, Gotamagotta, Gotamagottasambandha, Gotamaka, Gotamakacetiya, Gotamakakandara, Gotamakasutta, Gotamakasuttanta, Gotamanigrodha, Gotamanvaya, Gotamapriccha, Gotamapricchabalavabodha, Gotamapricchabalavabodhakatha, Gotamasammasambuddha, Gotamasasana, Gotamasavaka.
Full-text (+458): Gotami, Gautama, Gotamasvamin, Gotamapriccha, Gotamastoma, Gotamanvaya, Gotamagaura, Gautamasa, Lokaikabandhu, Pancavaggiya, Gotamadvara, Gotamatapasa, Alavigotama, Gotamavada, Gotamasavaka, Samvargajita, Gotamaka, Gotama Buddha, Gotamatittha, Mahagotama.
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Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
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Chapter 10 - Hemavata Sutta (the story of Sātāgiri Deva and Hemavata Deva) < [Volume 2.2]
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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (by Swāmī Mādhavānanda)
Section II - Description of the Prana < [Chapter II]
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
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