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Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)

Source: eScholarship: Chapters 1-14 of the Hayasirsa Pancaratra

Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग) refers to “one who is crippled (missing a limb)”, representing an undesirable characteristic of an Ācārya, according to the 9th-century Hayaśīrṣa-pañcarātra Ādikāṇḍa chapter 3.—The Lord said:—“I will tell you about the Sthāpakas endowed with perverse qualities. He should not construct a temple with those who are avoided in this Tantra. [...] He should not be a Punarbhū, a Svayambhū, a widow’s bastard, or a non-believer, nor irrational, pale, bald or crippled (hīnāṅga) or fat. [...] A god enshrined by any of these named above (viz., hīnāṅga), is in no manner a giver of fruit. If a building for Viṣṇu is made anywhere by these excluded types (viz., hīnāṅga) then that temple will not give rise to enjoyment and liberation and will yield no reward, of this there is no doubt”.

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Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.

Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)

Source: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantram

Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग) refers to “one who has some of his limbs missing”, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, while describing the signs of one who is not a Siddha: “He is excessively tall, bald, deformed, short, dwarfish, his nose is ugly or he has black teeth and is wrathful . Some of his limbs are missing [i.e., hīnāṅga] and is deceitful, cripple and deformed, foolish, inauspicious, envious, deluded, badly behaved, and violent; without any teacher, he is devoid of the rites, he maligns the Krama without cause, he is not devoted to the Siddhas, he (always) suffers and is without wisdom. He is (always) ill and one should know that he is (always) attached (to worldly objects) and has no scripture. He has no energy and is dull and lazy. Ugly, he lives by cheating and, cruel, he is deluded, and devoid of (any) sense of reality. Such is the characteristic of one who is not accomplished (asiddha) in a past life”.

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Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

hīnāṅga (हीनांग).—a (S) Of defective body; crippled, maimed, mutilated.

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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 dictionary

Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—a. deficient in a limb, crippled, maimed, defective; हीनाङ्गी वाधिकाङ्गी वा या भवेत् कन्यका नृणाम् । भर्तुः स्यात् सा विनाशाय स्वशीलनिधनाय च (hīnāṅgī vādhikāṅgī vā yā bhavet kanyakā nṛṇām | bhartuḥ syāt sā vināśāya svaśīlanidhanāya ca) || Pañcatantra (Bombay) 5.95; Manusmṛti 4.141; Y. 1.222.

-gī a small ant.

Hīnāṅga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hīna and aṅga (अङ्ग).

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

Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—mfn.

(-ṅgaḥ-ṅgī-ṅgaṃ) Crippled, maimed, defective. f. (-ṅgī) An ant. E. hīna deficient, aṅga the body.

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

Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—(vb. 2. hā), I. adj. maimed, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 4, 141. Ii. f. gī, an ant.

Hīnāṅga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hīna and aṅga (अङ्ग).

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

Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—[feminine] ā & ī deficient in limbs or parts.

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

1) Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग):—[from hīna > hā] mf(ā or ī)n. defective in limb, crippled, lame, mutilated, [ṢaḍvBr.; Manu-smṛti; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]

2) [v.s. ...] incomplete in parts, imperfect, [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra [Scholiast or Commentator]]

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

Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग):—[hīnā+ṅga] (ṅgaḥ-ṅgī-ṅgaṃ) a. Crippled, maimed. f. (ī) An ant.

[Sanskrit to German]

Hinanga 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Hīnāṃga (ಹೀನಾಂಗ):—[noun] a physically disabled, maimed man.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Hina, Anga.

Starts with: Hinangadarshana.

Ends with: Chinanga, Dakshinanga, Kshinanga, Shinanga.

Full-text: Hinamga, Adhikanga, Anga.

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