Jalayantra, Jala-yantra, Jalayamtra: 20 definitions
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Jalayantra means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi. 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 Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र) refers to a “device for spouting water” (an artificial fountain), and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 18.14.
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र) refers to “fountains” and represents a mechanical device (yantras), which were known in India from early times. Treatises on polity and war described the use of different types of yantras in warfare. Many yantras were particularly associated with gardens (lending further credence to the garden as a place of human artifice), because the manipulation of water flows formed one of the chief sources of power for mechanical devices. In gardens it was most often used to create fountains and water jets—the fountain (jalayantra) and fountain house (yantradhārāgṛha) were them-selves considered mechanical devices, as their very names make plain. Even animal and human automata-like objects were apparently not unknown.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र) refers to one of the topics discussed in the Rasakaumudī, a Sanskrit manuscript collected in volume 1 of the catalogue “Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (first series)” by Rajendralal Mitra (1822–1891), who was one of the first English-writing historians dealing with Indian culture and heritage.—The Rasakaumudī by Mādhavakara represents a treatise on practice of medicine and therapeutics. It is a leading work on Hindu medicine, very largely studied in Bengal containing causes and symptoms of diseases. It contains 3,092 ślokas.—The catalogue includes the term—Jalayantra in its ‘subject-matter list’ or Viṣaya (which lists topics, chapters and technical terms). The complete entry reads: jalayantraṃ .
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र) refers to an “instrument for sprinkling water” according to the Carakasaṃhitā Cikitsāsthāna 24.158.—The patient of paittika type alcoholism is prescribed the following measures: use of cooling beds and seats (according to Suśruta it is a bed of blooming lotuses or of padmini petals covered with water droplets); walks in cool gardens; use of silk garments, lotus, water-lily, gems and pearls; and the application of sandal paste. Patients are advised to touch vessels of gold, silver and bronze filled with cold water and of leather bags containing ice, and embrace women smeared with sandal paste. The use of jalayantra (instrument for sprinkling water), vātayantra (instrument for blowing air in the room), and dhāragṛha (a room where water is sprinkled from the roof) are deemed beneficial.
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.
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र) refers to a “water instrument”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “We shall now proceed to give a brief description of (the qualifications of) a jyotiṣaka. [...] If the methods of calculation given in the five Astronomical works mentioned above should produce different results he must be able to calculate correctly the places of the sun and planets by actual observation (by means of shadow and water level and with the help of astronomical instruments) [i.e., jalayantra] of the termination of their āyana (northward and southward course), of their being due east to the observer after rising and of their altitude at any time”.
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र) (Cf. Jalayantraka) refers to a “water clock”, according to the Nāradasaṃhitā verse 29.86-95 (pp. 181-184), a Sanskrit work on astrology having the Saralā commentary by Vasatirāma Śarmā.—Accordingly, “The best of the astrologers should measure (dadyāt) that auspicious moment by means of the water clock [i.e., jalayantra]. With a height of six aṅgulas, with a width of twelve aṅgulas, let a copper bowl be made, like a hemisphere, with ten palas of weight. It is filled in the duration of sixty palas (or, with sixty palas of water), and sinks sixty times in a day and night.
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.
India history and geography
Jala-yantra.—(SII 2, 3), a water-lever. Note: jala-yantra 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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
jalayantra (जलयंत्र).—n (S) A water-work; a water engine or machine gen.
jalayantra (जलयंत्र).—n A water-work; a water-engine.
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
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र).—
1) a machine for raising water (Mar. rahāṭa).
2) a waterclock, clepsydra.
3) a fountain. °गृहम्, °निकेतनम्, °मन्दिरम् (gṛham, °niketanam, °mandiram) a house erected in the midst of water (a summerhouse) or one supplied with artificial fountains; क्वचिद् विचित्रं जलयन्त्रमन्दिरम् (kvacid vicitraṃ jalayantramandiram) Ṛtusaṃhāra 1.2.
Derivable forms: jalayantram (जलयन्त्रम्).
Jalayantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jala and yantra (यन्त्र).
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र).—[, read jatu°, q.v. But in Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iii.16.10 occurs jala-yantraka, lit. water-machine, something used in water-play with women; Tibetan chu (water) la spal paḥi skad ḥbyin (?).]
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र).—n.
(-ntraṃ) A water-work, a machine for raising water, &c., any contrivance connected with that element. E. jala, and yantra a machine. jalānām utkṣepaṇārthaṃ yantram . (phoyārā) .
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र).—n. a machine for raising water, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 8425.
Jalayantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jala and yantra (यन्त्र).
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र).—[neuter] water-engine.
1) Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र):—[=jala-yantra] [from jala] n. = traka, [Harivaṃśa 8425]
2) [v.s. ...] a clepsydra, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र):—[jala-yantra] (ntraṃ) 1. n. Water-works, or machine for raising water.
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र):—(jala + yantra) n.
1) Spritze [Harivaṃśa 8425]; vgl. jalayantraka . —
2) wohl Wasseruhr, Klepsydra [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S.2,c] [?(A. 1], b); vgl. ambuyantra in einem Citat des Garga [2, 3.]
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Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र):—
1) die neuere Ausg. jalapatra . — Vgl. toyayantra .
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र):—n. —
1) Sprütze. —
2) Wasseruhr.
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
Jalayaṃtra (ಜಲಯಂತ್ರ):—
1) [noun] a device consisting of a narrow tube of glass, rubber or metal, with a narrowed outlet and fitted at another end with a rubber bulb or piston by means of which a liquid can be drawn in and then ejected in a stream.
2) [noun] an artificial device for sprinkling water or ejecting it through a jet; a fountain; a sprinkler.
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Jaḷayaṃtra (ಜಳಯಂತ್ರ):—
1) [noun] a device consisting of a narrow tube of glass, rubber or metal, with a narrowed outlet and fitted at another end with a rubber bulb or piston by means of which a liquid can be drawn in and then ejected in a stream.
2) [noun] an artificial device for sprinkling water or ejecting it through a jet; a fountain; a sprinkler.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Jalayantra (जलयन्त्र):—n. 1. any machine/appliance operated by water; 2. water-clock;
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)
Partial matches (+0): Yantra, Jala.
Starts with (+0): Jalayantracakra, Jalayantragriha, Jalayantraka, Jalayantramandira, Jalayantraniketana.
Full-text (+0): Jalayantragriha, Jalayantracakra, Jalayantraniketana, Jalayantramandira, Jalayantraka, Toyayantra, Variyantra, Jalyantra, Jalajamtra, Niketana, Yantra, Vatayantra, Dharagriha, Nadika, Mandira.
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