Indrahasta, Indra-hasta: 6 definitions
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Indrahasta means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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 Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on AgricultureIndrahasta (इन्द्रहस्त) refers to a particular substance (suitable for an offering ceremony), according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly [as the Bhagavān taught the detailed offering-manual], “The wise one should prepare a pill having mixed padmaka, arka, blue lotus, orpiment, mixed copper powder, mustard seed, indrahasta and palāśa with sugar juice. Having enchanted with the mantra eighty times, pills measuring a jujube fruit should be made. [...]”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryIndrahasta (इन्द्रहस्त).—a kind of medicament.
Derivable forms: indrahastaḥ (इन्द्रहस्तः).
Indrahasta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms indra and hasta (हस्त).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryIndrahasta (इन्द्रहस्त).—m. (°taḥ, n. sg.), Mahāvyutpatti 5823, or °stā, f. (n. sg.), Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 104.7; Tibetan in both dbaṅ poḥi lag (pa), a literal rendering of the Sanskrit, which [Tibetan-English Dictionary] says means ‘a plant the viscid aromatic root of which resembles the human arm in shape’; in both Mahāvyutpatti and Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra one item in lists of herbs, oṣadhi (Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra auṣadhayo, n. pl.). Mahāvyutpatti has other Tibetan renderings, apparently foreign words and not in Dictt., ḥab śaṅ tse ḥu (which also renders prativiṣam, Mahāvyutpatti 5822) and ḥa ba śa tshe ḥu.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryIndrahasta (इन्द्रहस्त):—[=indra-hasta] [from indra] m. a kind of medicament, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
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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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Hasta, Indra.
Full-text: Arka, Haritala, Gudika, Mishratamra, Badarapramana, Badara, Tamra, Gudarasa, Nilotpala, Tamracurna, Bhavayitva, Indra.
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