Khanjana, Khañjana, Khamjana, Khanjan: 23 definitions
Introduction:
Khanjana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi. 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
Ayurveda (science of life)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Khañjana (खञ्जन) refers to the White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), according to scientific texts such as the Mṛgapakṣiśāstra (Mriga-pakshi-shastra) or “the ancient Indian science of animals and birds” by Hamsadeva, containing the varieties and descriptions of the animals and birds seen in the Sanskrit Epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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)
Khañjana (खञ्जन) or Khañjanaka refers to “(prediction of future events from the flight of the) kañjana (a small black bird—the Gracular religiosa”, 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, “A true Astrologer is also one who has thoroughly mastered the Science of Saṃhitā. [...] It also treats of the prediction of events from the flight of the kañjana and from the appearance of various abnormal phenomena, of expiatory ceremonies; of miscellaneous planetary phenomena; of ghṛta-kambala; of the royal sword; of paṭa; of the features of a house cock, a cow, a sheep, a horse, an elephant, a man and a woman. It also treats of the treatment of women; of moles in the body; of injuries to shoes and clothes; of hairy fans; of walking sticks: of beds and seats; of lamplight; of tooth brush and the like”.
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.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Khañjanā (खञ्जना) refers to one of the “thousand names of Kumārī”, as mentioned in the Kumārīsahasranāma, which is included in the 10th chapter of the first part (prathamabhāga) of the Rudrayāmala-Uttaratantra: an ancient Tantric work primarily dealing with the practice of Kuṇḍalinī-yoga, the worship of Kumārī and discussions regarding the Cakras. This edition is said to be derived of the Rudrayāmalatantra and consists of 6000 verses in 90 chapters (paṭalas) together with the Saralā-Hindīvyākhyopetam (i.e., the Rudrayamalam Uttaratantram with Sarala Hindi translation).—Khañjanā is mentioned in śloka 1.10.24.—The chapter notes that one is granted the rewards obtained by reciting the text even without the performance of pūjā (worship), japa, snāna (bathing) and puraścaryā.
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.
India history and geography
Khanjan refers to a “tambourine” and represents a traditional Nepalese musical instrument, mentioned in the appendix of the translation of the Vanshavali or Bansawali (“history and genealogical accounts of Nepal”).
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
Pali-English dictionary
khañjana : (nt.) hobbling. (m.), a wagtail.
Khañjana, (nt.) hobbling, walking lame PvA. 185. (Page 231)
1) khañjana (ခဉ္ဇန) [(na) (န)]—
[khaji+yu]
[ခဇိ+ယု]
2) khañjana (ခဉ္ဇန) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kha+jana+a．passantānaṃ khaṃ sukhaṃ janetīti khañjano．khañja+yu．khañja gativekalye vā,yu．,ṭī．643．]
[ခ+ဇန+အ။ ပဿန္တာနံ ခံ သုခံ ဇနေတီတိ ခဉ္ဇနော။ ခဉ္ဇ+ယု။ ခဉ္ဇ ဂတိဝေကလျေ ဝါ၊ ယု။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၄၃။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) khañjana—
(Burmese text): သပိတ်လွယ်ငှက်။
(Auto-Translation): Wild dove.
2) khañjana—
(Burmese text): ခွင်ခြင်း။ ခဉ္ဇတိ-(၂)-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): The translation is: "Observation. See the item (2)."
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
khañjana (खंजन).—m S khañjarīṭa m S A wagtail, Motacilla alba.
khañjana (खंजन).—m A wagtail.
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
Khañjana (खञ्जन).—[khañj-lyuṭ]
1) A species of the wag-tail; स्फुटकमलोदरखेलितखञ्जनयुगमिव शरदि तडागम् (sphuṭakamalodarakhelitakhañjanayugamiva śaradi taḍāgam) Gītagovinda 11; नेत्रे खञ्जनगञ्जने (netre khañjanagañjane) S. D; एको हि खञ्जनवरो नलिनीदलस्थः (eko hi khañjanavaro nalinīdalasthaḥ) Ś. Til.4,5.
-nā A kind of wag-tail.
2) Mustard.
-nam Going lamely.
Derivable forms: khañjanaḥ (खञ्जनः).
Khañjana (खञ्जन).—m.
(-naḥ) A small bird, the wag-tail, (Motacilla alba.) f.
(-nā) 1. A small kind of wag-tail. 2. Mustard. n.
(-naṃ) Going, moving. E. khaji to go lamely, affix lyu.
Khañjana (खञ्जन).—[khañj + ana], m. A wag-tail, Śrīṅgārat. 4.
Khañjana (खञ्जन).—[masculine] wagtail.
1) Khañjana (खञ्जन):—[from khañj] m. the wagtail (Montacilla alba), [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā; Suśruta] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] Name of a man [gana] śivādi
3) Khañjanā (खञ्जना):—[from khañjana > khañj] f. a kind of wagtail, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) Khañjana (खञ्जन):—[from khañj] n. going lamely, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Khañjana (खञ्जन):—[(naḥ-nā)] 1. m. Idem. (naṃ) n. Going; limping.
Khañjana (खञ्जन):—(von khañj)
1) m. Bachstelze [Amarakoṣa 2, 5, 15.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 5, 15.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1328. 1357.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 55.] [Hārāvalī 87.] [Suśruta 1, 115, 2.] [Śṛṅgāratilaka 4. 5.] [Gītagovinda 11, 27.] netre khañjanagañjane [Sāhityadarpana 41, 12.] khañjanadarśana [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 44] in [Weber’s Verzeichniss 244.] khañjanopākhyāna [Vārāhapurāṇa ebend. No. 485. fg.] khañjanaśākuna [No. 896. fg.] —
2) f. ā eine Art Bachstelze (sarṣapī, welches [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] sowohl in dieser Bed. als auch in der von Senf [sarṣapa] aufgefasst hat). —
3) n. das Gehen(?) [Medinīkoṣa] — Vgl. khāñjana .
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Khāñjana (खाञ्जन):—patron. von khañjana gaṇa śivādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 112.]
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Khañjana (खञ्जन):—
1) [Spr. 411.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 45,3. 6. 10. 15.] [Oxforder Handschriften 86,b,39. 92,b,39.]
Khañjana (खञ्जन):——
1) m. — a) Bachstelze nayana so v.a. ein hinundhergehendes Auge [Jayadeva's Prasannarāghava 1,19.] khañjanākṣī f. ein Mädchen mit solchen Augen [Indische sprüche 7662.] — b) *Nomen proprium eines Mannes gaṇa śivādi. —
2) *f. ā eine Art Bachstelze. —
3) *n. das Hinken.
Khañjana (खञ्जन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Khaṃjaṇa.
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
Khaṃjana (खंजन) [Also spelled khanjan]:—(nm) a wagtail—Motacilla alba; in literature, it is frequently used as an [upamāna] for playful gay eyes ([khaṃjana-nayana]).
Khanjan in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) a wagtail—Motacilla alba; in literature, it is frequently used as an [upamana] for playful gay eyes ([khamjana-nayana])..—khanjan (खंजन) is alternatively transliterated as Khaṃjana.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Khaṃjaṇa (खंजण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Khañjana.
2) Khaṃjaṇa (खंजण) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Khañjana.
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
Khaṃjana (ಖಂಜನ):—[noun] a passerine bird Montacilla alba of Motacillidae family, having a long wing feathers and a very long tail that wags up and down; a variety of wagtail.
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 (+0): Khaji, Kha, Ao, Yu, Yu, Jana, A.
Starts with (+0): Khanjanagati, Khanjanaka, Khanjanakriti, Khanjanarata, Khanjanatkuta.
Full-text (+3): Khanjanaka, Khanjanakriti, Khanjanarata, Kalakhanjana, Khanjarita, Madanapakshin, Kamjira, Khanjanagati, Tatana, Khanjakheta, Karkaranga, Casha, Khanjahva, Adrishyashikha, Krishnavakshas, Shala, Kanchanam, Karnetiritira, Pratipopama, Madira.
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