Hemanta, Hemamta: 28 definitions
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Hemanta means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Hindi, biology. 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.
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)
Source: Wisdom Library: Raj NighantuHemanta (हेमन्त) refers to the “winter season” in the traditional Indian calendar, and consists of the months Mārgaśirṣa and Pauṣa, according to the second chapter (dharaṇyādi-varga) of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). The physician (bhiṣaj) should pay attention to the seasonal (ṛtu) factor in the use of medicinal drugs. Accordingly, “the bulbous roots in winter season (hemanta), other roots in cold season and flowers during spring season are supposed to contain better properties. The new leaves or shoots in summer and the drugs, which grow in mud, like Lotus etc., should be used in autumn season”.
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
Source: Ancient Science of Life: Yogaśataka of Pandita VararuciHemanta (हेमन्त) refers to the season consisting (partially) of January and February, whose vāta-provocative symptoms are dealt with in the 10th century Yogaśataka written by Pandita Vararuci.—The Yogaśataka of Pandita Vararuci is an example of this category. This book attracts reader by its very easy language and formulations which can be easily prepared and have small number of herbs. It describes only those formulations which are the most common and can be used in majority conditions of diseases (viz., in Hemanta).
The 101st stanza is related with provocation of Doṣas in particular seasons. Seasons for provocation of Vāta are Hemanta (Jan-Feb), Varṣa (Rainy season) and Śiśira (Dec-Jan). Season for provocation of Pitta is Grīṣma (summer) and Śarad (Oct-Nov) while for provocation of Kapha is Vasanta (Feb-Mar).
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botanyHemanta (हेमन्त, “early winter”):—One of the six season of the year, comprising the months Agrahāyaṇa (or, Mārgaśīrṣa) and Pauṣa.—This season takes place dusing visarga, when the moon is dominant, and releases nutrient essence to the living being. In these months, Kapha-doṣa is accumulated. A skilled physician should moniter these conditions during the treatment of a patient.
Source: archive.org: Sushruta samhita, Volume IIHemanta is the Hindu season meaning "Fall winter". Hemanta is marked by two months called Sahas and Sahasya (Agrahayana and Pausha).
Plants and vegetables (Oshadhis) that grow or sprout during the rainy season, are matured in course of time and ripen in their virtues and potency in the season of Hemanta. The water becomes clear, cool and heavy in this season. The sun’s rays become feeble and mild ; and the winds moistened with frost and snow, make the human system a little numb and heavy. Hence water and vegetables partaken of in Hemanta are divested of their properties of acid reaction after being assimilated in the human system, but they give rise to an accumulation of phlegm in the body owing to their heaviness, sliminess, and cooling and oily character.
Diseases which owe their origin to a deranged state of bile, phlegm and wind, are respectively ameliorated in Hemanta, summer, and autumn by natural causes, [such as the variations of atmospheric or earthly temperature, rainfall, etc.].
Likewise the features, which specifically mark the different seasons of the year are observed to characterise the different parts of a complete day and night, [or in other words] the hours before dawn are marked by those of Hemanta.
Cold winds from the north blow in the season of Hemanta. The quarters of the sky are enveloped in smoke and assume a dusky aspect. The sun is hid in the frost, and lakes and pools are frozen or lie covered over with flakes, or thin layers of ice. Crows, rhinoceroses, buffaloes, lambs and elephants become excited and sprightly in this part of the year ; and the Lodhra, Priyangu, and Punnága trees begin to blossom.
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)
Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English TranslationHemanta (हेमन्त) refers to the “early winter (season)” (associated with certain austerities), according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.5.1 (“Description of Tripura—the three cities”).—Accordingly, as Sanatkumāra narrated to Vyāsa: “O great sage, when the Asura Tāraka was killed by Skanda, the son of Śiva, his three sons performed austerities. [...] In the autumn they controlled their hunger and thirst. All good foodstuffs, steady, wholesome, and viscid, fruits, roots and beverages they distributed among the hungry. They themselves remained like stones. In the early winter (hemanta) they remained on top of the mountain with fortitude, unsupported in any of the four quarters. [...]”.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index1a) Hemanta (हेमन्त).—A mind-born son of Brahmā in the 16th kalpa.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 21. 35.
1b) Cold season;1 constitutes the months of Satra and Sahasya;2 Parjanya and diggajas snow freely during the period.3
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.
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Source: archive.org: Natya ShastraHemanta (हेमन्त).—Early winter (hemanta) should be indicated by the superior and the middling characters through narrowing down their limbs and seeking the sun, fire and warm clothing. The same should be indicated by the inferior characters through groaning (kūjana), clicking (śītkāra), and trembling of the head and of the lips and the clattering of teeth. The superior characters also may sometimes indicate the winter in this manner, if due to fate they are in a miserable condition.
Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
Vaishnavism (Vaishava dharma)
Source: Pure Bhakti: Arcana-dipika - 3rd EditionHemanta (हेमन्त) refers to the “winter (before the frost)” season and represents the months Kārtika to Pauṣa (mid November to mid January) and is one of the six “seasons” (ṛtu).—According to the Vedic calendar, there are six different seasons, which correspond to the twelve months of the year.
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’).
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by VarahamihiraHemanta (हेमन्त) refers to the months December and January, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 3), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “If in Śiśira (February, March) the sun be of copper colour or red black, if, in Vasanta (April, May), blue crimson, if, in Grīṣma (June, July), slightly white and of gold color, if, in Varṣā (August, September), white, if, in Śarada (October, November), of the colour of the centre of the lotus, if, in Hemanta (December, January), of blood color, mankind will be happy. If, in Varṣā (August, September), the rays of the sun be soft, mankind will be happy even though the sun should be of any of the colors mentioned above”.
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.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Source: archive.org: Vedic index of Names and SubjectsHemanta (हेमन्त, ‘winter’) occurs only once in the Rigveda, but often in the later texts. Zimmer is inclined to trace differences of climate in the Rigveda: he thinks that certain hymns, which ignore winter and insist on the rains, indicate a different place and time of origin from those which refer to the snowy mountains.
The Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa (i. 5. 4. 5) describes winter as the time when the plants wither, the leaves fall from the trees, the birds fly low and retire more and more.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Source: Singhi Jain Series: Ratnaprabha-suri’s Kuvalayamala-kathaHemaṃta (or Hemaṃtasirī) refers to one of the “personified beauties”, according to the 8th-century Kuvalayamālā written by Uddyotanasūri, a Prakrit Campū (similar to Kāvya poetry) narrating the love-story between Prince Candrāpīḍa and the Apsaras Kādambarī.—The Campū opens with salutations to the great Tirthaṃkaras on the occasion of whose birth even the gods take part in the great festival, clapping their hands with bejewelled bracelets (maṇivalaya, 1.2). The personified beauty mentioned as māhava-sirī, giṃha-lacchī, pāusa-sirī, saraya-lacchī and hemaṃta-sirī is full of beautiful expression not found elsewhere.
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.
Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Hemanta in India is the name of a plant defined with Ficus retusa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ficus retusa var. nitida (Thunb.) Miq. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Fieldiana, Botany (1977)
· Annales Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavi (1867)
· Mantissa Plantarum (1767)
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (1987)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Hemanta, for example diet and recipes, health benefits, side effects, pregnancy safety, extract dosage, chemical composition, have a look at these references.
This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryhemanta : (m.) the winter.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryHemanta, (hema(=hima)+anta) winter A.IV, 138; J.I, 86; Miln.274. (Page 733)
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
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryhēmanta (हेमंत).—m n (S) hēmantaṛtu m (S) The period consisting of the two months mārgaśīrṣa & pauṣa, occurring about November-December, the cold season.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishhēmanta (हेमंत).—m n hēmantaṛtu m The cold season, winter.
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 dictionaryHemanta (हेमन्त).—One of the six seasons, cold or winter season (comprising the months mārgaśīrṣa and pauṣa); नव- प्रवालोद्गमसस्यरम्यः प्रफुल्ललोध्रः परिपक्वशालिः । विलीनपद्मः प्रपत- त्तुषारो हेमन्तकालः समुपागतः प्रिये (nava- pravālodgamasasyaramyaḥ praphullalodhraḥ paripakvaśāliḥ | vilīnapadmaḥ prapata- ttuṣāro hemantakālaḥ samupāgataḥ priye) || Ṛtusaṃhāra 4.1.
Derivable forms: hemantaḥ (हेमन्तः), hemantam (हेमन्तम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryHemanta (हेमन्त).—mn.
(-ntaḥ-ntaṃ) The cold season, winter, the two months, Agrahayana and Pausha, or about November-December. E. han to hurt, jhac Unadi aff., hi substituted for the root, and muṭ augment.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryHemanta (हेमन्त).— (i. e. *hemant, original form of heman, + a), m. (and n.), The cold season, winter, about November
— December, [Pañcatantra] 94, 2.
— Cf.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryHemanta (हेमन्त).—[masculine] winter.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Hemanta (हेमन्त):—[from heman] a m. winter, the cold season (comprising the two months Agra-hāyaṇa and Pauṣa id est. from middle of November to middle of January), [Ṛg-veda] etc. etc.
2) b hemavala See p.1304, [columns] 1 and 2.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryHemanta (हेमन्त):—[(ntaḥ-ntaṃ)] 1. m. n. The cold season, winter (Nov.-Dec.)
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Hemanta (हेमन्त) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Hemaṃta.
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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.
Hindi dictionary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryHemaṃta (हेमंत) [Also spelled hemant]:—(nm) the winter season.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary1) Hemaṃta (हेमंत) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Hemanta.
2) Hemaṃta (हेमंत) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Haimanta.
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
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusHēmaṃta (ಹೇಮಂತ):—
1) [noun] the coldest season of the year comprising of Mārgaśira and Puśya, the ninth and tenth months in the lunar calendar.
2) [noun] (fig.) an old man.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Source: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryHemanta (हेमन्त):—n. late autumn; beginning of the cold season;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Hemamta-siri, Hemanta-ritu, Hemantaharita, Hemantajabdha, Hemantam, Hemantamegha, Hemantanatha, Hemantanila, Hemantanta, Hemantaparvata, Hemantapratyavarohana, Hemantaritu, Hemantarituvarnana, Hemantasamaya, Hemantashishira, Hemantasimha, Hemantavajri.
Full-text (+94): Hemantanatha, Haimanta, Ritu, Hemantasimha, Suhemanta, Aparahemanta, Antohemanta, Hemamta-siri, Hemantajabdha, Hemantika, Haimana, Hemanta-ritu, Hemantashishira, Grishmahemanta, Hemantasamaya, Hemantamegha, Hemantapratyavarohana, Shishira, Hemantaparvata, Hemantam.
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