Kuntha, Kuṃṭhā, Kumtha, Kuṇṭha: 22 definitions
Introduction:
Kuntha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi, biology. 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)
Cikitsa (natural therapy and treatment for medical conditions)
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ) or Kuṣṭha refers to the medicinal plant Saussurea lappa C.B.Cl., and is used in the treatment of atisāra (diarrhoea), according to the 7th century Mādhavacikitsā chapter 2. Atisāra refers to a condition where there are three or more loose or liquid stools (bowel movements) per day or more stool than normal. The second chapter of the Mādhavacikitsā explains several preparations [including Kuṇṭha] through 60 Sanskrit verses about treating this problem.
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)
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ) refers to “blunt” (luminous horns of an eclipse), according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 5), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “What eclipses [i.e., āvaraṇa] the moon is bigger than the moon; what eclipses the sun is smaller than the sun. Hence in semi-lunar and semi-solar eclipses, the luminous horns are respectively blunt [i.e., kuṇṭha] and sharp. [...] It is wrong to say that there can be no eclipse unless five planets are in conjunction and it is equally wrong to suppose that on the previous Aṣṭamī (eighth lunar) day, the coming eclipse and its properties can be ascertained by examining the appearance of a drop of oil on the surface of water”.
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.
Biology (plants and animals)
Kuntha in Tibet is the name of a plant defined with Desmostachya bipinnata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cynosurus durus Forssk., nom. illeg., non Cynosurus durus L. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins für die Provinz Brandenburg und die angrenzenden Länder (1907)
· Lexicon Generum Phanerogamarum (1903)
· Species Plantarum, Editio Secunda (1762)
· Flora Capensis (1900)
· Flora Palaestina (1756)
· Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas (1895)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Kuntha, for example pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, chemical composition, side effects, extract dosage, health benefits, have a look at these references.
This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
kuṇṭha : (adj.) blunt.
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kuntha : (m.) a sort of ant.
Kuṇṭha, (cp. kuṇa and kuṇḍa) 1. bent, lame; blunt (of a sword) DhA. I, 311 (°kuddāla); Pug. A. I, 34 (of asi, opp. tikkhina); °tiṇa a kind of grass Vism. 353.—2. a cripple J. II, 117. (Page 220)
1) kuntha (ကုန္ထ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kuthi+a]
[ကုထိ+အ]
2) kuṇṭha (ကုဏ္ဌ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[kuṇa+a．yo kriyāsu mando,so kuṇṭho,kuṇṭha paṭighāteç ālasye ca,a．,ṭī．729．kuṇa+ṭha．kuṇa sadde,pararūpābhāvo ottābhāvoca,kuṇati nadatīti kuṇṭho,atikhiṇo．kuṇīyati akkosīyatīti kuṇṭho,chinnahatthapādādiko．,7．56．]
[ကုဏ+အ။ ယော ကြိယာသု မန္ဒော၊ သော ကုဏ္ဌော၊ ကုဏ္ဌ ပဋိဃာတေ,အာလသျေ စ၊ အ။ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၇၂၉။ ကုဏ+ဌ။ ကုဏ သဒ္ဒေ၊ ပရရူပါဘာဝေါ ဩတ္တာဘာဝေါစ၊ ကုဏတိ နဒတီတိ ကုဏ္ဌော၊ အတိခိဏော။ ကုဏီယတိ အက္ကောသီယတီတိ ကုဏ္ဌော၊ ဆိန္နဟတ္ထပါဒါဒိကော။ မောဂ်၊၇။၅၆။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) kuntha—
(Burmese text): ပိုးရွ၊ သိမ်မွေ့သေးငယ်သော ပိုးကောင်။
(Auto-Translation): A small, gentle insect.
2) kuṇṭha—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) ပျင်းရိ-ထိုင်းမှိုင်း-အစွမ်း သတ္တိညံ့-အစွမ်းသတ္တိတုံး-သော၊ သူ။ (ခ) လက်ခြေစသည်-တုံးသော-ပြတ်သော၊ သူ။ (ဂ) တုံးသော။ (သန်လျက်,မြားစသည်)။ (၂) ခွင်သော၊ ကောက်သော။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) The presence of a dull or weak quality, as seen in the lazy, cowardly, or timid. (b) A foundation that is shaky or broken. (c) A foundation that is solid. (Remain with a blurry or unclear quality). (2) To be soft, to grow.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ).—a.
1) Blunt, dulled; वज्रं तपोवीर्यमहत्सु कुण्ठम् (vajraṃ tapovīryamahatsu kuṇṭham) Kumārasambhava 3.12, has no effect on &c.; कुण्ठत्वमायाति गुणः कवीनां साहित्यविद्याश्रमवर्जितेषु (kuṇṭhatvamāyāti guṇaḥ kavīnāṃ sāhityavidyāśramavarjiteṣu) Vikr.1.14; Śiśupālavadha 12.12; कुण्ठीभवन्त्यु- पलादिषु क्षुराः (kuṇṭhībhavantyu- palādiṣu kṣurāḥ) Ś. B.
2) Dull, foolish, stupid.
3) Indolent, lazy.
4) Weak.
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ).—adj. (in Sanskrit only blunt, dull; in Pali also (a) mutilated (person), Jātaka (Pali) ii.117.18, also koṇṭha in same context; compare Sanskrit Dhātup. kuṇṭ-, vikalīkaraṇe; and compare the following items), probably mutilated, maimed (or possibly deformed): Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 426.18 (prose) na kāṇo bhavati na kuṇṭho bhavati na kubjo…
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Kuṇṭhā (कुण्ठा).—(to kuṇṭha, q.v.), name of a rākṣasī: Mahā-Māyūrī 240.6.
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ).—mfn.
(-ṇṭhaḥ-ṇṭhā-ṇṭhaṃ) 1. Indolent, lazy, slow. 2. Stupid, foolish, a fool E. kuṭhi to be slothful, &c. affix ac.
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ).—[kuṇṭh + a], adj. Blunt, [Rāmāyaṇa] 3, 32, 16.
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ).—[adjective] blunt, dull; [abstract] tā [feminine], tva [neuter]
1) Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ):—[from kuṇṭh] mfn. ([gana] kaḍārādi) blunt, dull, [Mahābhārata i, 1178; Rāmāyaṇa etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] stupid, indolent, lazy, foolish.
3) Kuntha (कुन्थ):—[from kunth] See bāhu-k.
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ):—[(ṇṭhaḥ-ṇṭhā-ṇṭhaṃ) a.] Idle, stupid.
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ):—kann im comp. vorangehen oder folgen gaṇa kaḍārādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 2, 38.] adj. stumpf: śastra [Suśruta 1, 27, 15. 361, 17.] cakramakuṇṭhamaṇḍalam [Mahābhārata 1, 1178.] (śarāḥ) kuṇṭhadhārāḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 32, 16.] vajraṃ tapovīryamahatsu kuṇṭham [Kumārasaṃbhava 3, 12.] nakhaśreṇi [Prabodhacandrodaja 81, 11.] Uebertr. stumpf, matt, abgenutzt, mitgenommen; akuṇṭha scharf, frisch: akuṇṭhadṛṣṭi [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 2, 2, 21.] rajasā kuṇṭhamanasaḥ [3, 32, 17.] akuṇṭhamedhasaṃ munim [1, 19, 31. 9, 11, 7.] devamakuṇṭhasattvam [3, 8, 3.] akuṇṭhādhiṣṭhya [5, 45.] tatra dānavadaityānāṃ saṅgātte bhāva āsuraḥ . dṛṣṭvā madanubhāvaṃ vai sadyaḥ kuṇṭho vinaṅkṣyati .. [8, 22, 36.] rajaḥkuṇṭhamukhāmbhoja [7, 2, 30.] vāṣpakuṇṭhakaṇṭha [Daśakumāracarita 140, 14.] kuṇṭhatā f. Stumpfheit, Gefühllosigkeit in einem Gliede [Suśruta 1, 349, 6.] — Nach [Amarakoṣa 3, 1, 7.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 353.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 105] und [Medinīkoṣa ṭh. 3] : indolent; nach [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] und [Medinīkoṣa] ausserdem: einfältig. — Vgl. kuṇṭhita unter 1. kuṇṭh und kālakuṇṭha, vikuṇṭha .
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Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ):—eig. [Spr. 4267.] viṣāṇa [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 12. 50, 4.] übertr.: akuṇṭhabodha [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 83, 4.] kuṇṭhatva Stumpfheit (des Geistes) [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 618.] — Vgl. bāhu .
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Kuntha (कुन्थ):—vgl. bāhu .
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ):—Adj. —
1) stumpft. —
2) abgestumpft , so v.a. ermattet , erschlafft.
Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Kuṃṭha.
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
Kuṃṭhā (कुंठा) [Also spelled kuntha]:—(nf) frustration; comlex; ~[grasta] frustrated, obsessed by frustration; complexed.
Kuntha in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) frustration; comlex; ~[grasta] frustrated, obsessed by frustration; complexed..—kuntha (कुंठा) is alternatively transliterated as Kuṃṭhā.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Kuṃṭha (कुंठ) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Kuṇṭha.
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
Kuṃṭha (ಕುಂಠ):—[adjective] = ಕುಂಠಿತ [kumthita].
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Kuṃṭha (ಕುಂಠ):—[noun] a very sluggish man; a man who is not active.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
1) Kuṇṭha (कुण्ठ):—adj. 1. dull; lazy; stupid; 2. blunt;
2) Kuṇṭhā (कुण्ठा):—n. 1. repressed desire; 2. inferiority complex; 3. hindrance; obstruction;
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: Kuṇa, Kutti, A, Kuti.
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