Jivanjiva, Jivamjiva, Jīvañjīva: 14 definitions
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Dietetics and Culinary Art (such as household cooking)
Jīvañjīva (जीवञ्जीव) refers to a mythical bird with two heads as described in the 17th century Bhojanakutūhala (dravyaguṇāguṇa-kathana), and is commonly found in literature dealing with the topics of dietetics and culinary art, also known as Pākaśāstra or Pākakalā.—Jīvañjīva is mentioned in a discusses regarding the reaction of certain insects and other living beings on consumption of poisionous food. The after-effect of intake of poison for Jīvañjīva (mythical bird) is defined as: “mlānir jāyate (becomes languid at the sight of poisoned food)”.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Jīvañjīva (जीवञ्जीव).—m.
(-vaḥ) 1. A kind of bird, supposed to be a pheasant. 2. The Chakora or Greek partridge. 3. A kind of tree. E. jīva life, and jīva who lives, from jīv with khac affix, long lived.
Jīvaṃjīva (जीवंजीव).—i. e. jīva + m-jīva, and jīvaṃjīvika jīvaṃjīvika, i. e. jīva + m-jīva + ika, m. A kind of pheasant, Mahābhārata 3, 8702.
1) Jīvaṃjīva (जीवंजीव):—[=jīva-ṃ-jīva] [from jīva > jīv] m. = -j, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] the Greek partridge, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) [v.s. ...] a mythical bird with two heads, [Buddhist literature]
4) [v.s. ...] Name of a tree, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Jīvañjīva (जीवञ्जीव):—[jīva-ñjīva] (vaḥ) 1. m. Idem; a Greek partridge; kind of tree.
Jīvaṃjīva (जीवंजीव):—m.
1) dass. [Amarakoṣa 2, 5, 35.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 5, 32.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1340. 4, 304] (= khagāntara und cakora). [Medinīkoṣa v. 59] (= cakora). eine Fasanenart [Vyutpatti oder Mahāvyutpatti 15. 118.] [Rgva tch’er rol pa 263. 274. 288. 313.] [Hiouen-Thsang I, 407.] jīvaṃjīvaka m. dass. [Mahābhārata 3, 8702. 9927.] [Harivaṃśa 6957.] [Suśruta 1, 205, 12.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 15, 30.] jīvaṃjīvika [Mahābhārata 5, 4850.] —
2) ein best. Baum [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa]
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Jīvaṃjīva (जीवंजीव):—
1) auch ein fabelhafter Vogel mit zwei Köpfen [Stenzler JULIEN, Les Avadānas II, 100.]
Jīvaṃjīva (जीवंजीव):—m. —
1) eine Hühnerart. —
2) ein fabelhafter Vogel mit zwei Köpfen. —
3) ein best. Baum.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Jīvaṃjīva (जीवंजीव) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Jīvajīva.
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
Jīvaṃjīva (ಜೀವಂಜೀವ):—
1) [noun] a dove, pigeon.
2) [noun] the bird Perdix rufus fabled to subsist upon moon-beams; Greek partridge.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Pali-English dictionary
jīvañjīva (ဇီဝဉ္ဇီဝ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[jīvajīva+ṇa．]jīvajīvā]ti saddaṃ karotīti jīvañjīvo．]jīvajīvo]ti nirānunāsikāpi．,ṭī．624-5．]
[ဇီဝဇီဝ+ဏ။ 'ဇီဝဇီဝါ'တိ သဒ္ဒံ ကရောတီတိ ဇီဝဉ္ဇီဝေါ။ 'ဇီဝဇီဝေါ'တိ နိရာနုနာသိကာပိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၂၄-၅။]
jīvaṃjīva (ဇီဝံဇီဝ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[jīvajīva+ṇa．]jīvajīvā]ti saddaṃ karotīti jīvañjīvo．]jīvajīvo]ti nirānunāsikāpi．,ṭī．624-5．]
[ဇီဝဇီဝ+ဏ။ 'ဇီဝဇီဝါ'တိ သဒ္ဒံ ကရောတီတိ ဇီဝဉ္ဇီဝေါ။ 'ဇီဝဇီဝေါ'တိ နိရာနုနာသိကာပိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၂၄-၅။]
[Pali to Burmese]
jīvañjīva—
(Burmese text): ဇီဝဇိုးငှက်။
(Auto-Translation): Zeevzo bird.
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: Jivajiva, Jiva, Na.
Starts with: Jivanjivaka, Jivanjivakasadda, Jivanjivakasakuna.
Full-text: Jivajiva, Gong ming niao, Ming ming niao, Jivanjivaka, Vijana, Sheng sheng niao, Qi po qi po jia, Pimjia.
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