Maghavan, Maghavān, Maghavat: 17 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Maghavan (मघवन्) refers to Indra, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.16 (“Brahmā consoles the gods”).—Accordingly, as the Gods said to Indra: “O lord [i.e., Maghavan], you should carry out the suggestions of Brahmā and see that Śiva is lovingly inclined towards Śivā”.
1a) Maghavān (मघवान्).—Another name of Indra;1 served as calf when the Gods milked the earth;2 as Vāyu he mixed up the garments of girls playing in a pleasure garden especially those of Śarmiṣṭhā and Devayānī;3 wife Śaci.4
- 1) Bhāgavata-purāṇa I. 16. 21. Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 13. 79; Vāyu-purāṇa 64. 7.
- 2) Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 36. 206.
- 3) Matsya-purāṇa 27. 3-4; 138. 1.
- 4) Vāyu-purāṇa 30. 72.
1b) A dānava.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 6. 5.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Maghavān (मघवान्) is the name of an authority on Nāṭya (ancient Indian art of performance and theater), as mentioned in the Dattilakohalīyam, one of the works ascribed to Kohala—a celebrated authority of the ancient period along with others such as Bharata, Yāṣṭika, Śārdūla, Kāśyapa etc.—There are verses of benediction to earlier authorities on nāṭya whose opinions were summarised in this work. This list in itself seems to be an interpolation from Saṅgītaratnākara. The names include, for example, Maghavān [...]. Subsequently the mythological account of the origin of nāṭya is described. According to this work, Bharata was handed this tradition by Brahma.
Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Maghavan (मघवन्), the son of Bhadrā and Samudravijaya, is one of the Cakrins (Cakravartins), according to chapter 1.6 [ādīśvara-caritra] of Hemacandra’s 11th century Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra: an ancient Sanskrit epic poem narrating the history and legends of sixty-three illustrious persons in Jainism.
Accordingly: “[...] In Bharata there will be twenty-three other Arhats and eleven other Cakrins. [...] The Cakrins will belong to the gotra of Kaśyapa, gold-color, and eight of them will go to mokṣa. [...] In Śrāvastī, Maghavan, the son of Bhadrā and Samudravijaya, will live for five lacs of years, forty-two and a half bows tall. Sanatkumāra, with a life of three lacs of years, in Hastināpura, one bow less than the former height, will be the son of Sahadevī and Aśvasena. In the interval between Dharma and Śānti, these two will go to the third heaven”.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Maghavat (मघवत्).—m. Name of Indra.
See also (synonyms): maghava.
Maghavan (मघवन्).—a. [mah-pūjāyāṃ kanin ni° hasya ghaḥ vugāgamaśca Uṇādi-sūtra 1.156] Liberal, munificent. -m. (Nom. sing. maghavā; acc. pl. maghonaḥ)
1) Name of Indra; दुदोह गां स यज्ञाय सस्याय मघवा दिवम् (dudoha gāṃ sa yajñāya sasyāya maghavā divam) R.1.26;3.46; Kirātārjunīya 3.52; Kumārasambhava 3.1.
2) An owl (pecaka).
3) Name of Vyāsa.
Maghavat (मघवत्).—m. (-vān) A name of Indra. E. magha happiness, (of paradise or Swarga,) matup aff.
Maghavan (मघवन्).—m.
(-vā) 1. Indra. 2. One of the twelve Chakravartis, or universal monarchs of the Jainas. 3. An epithet of Vyasa 4. An owl. E. maha to sacrifice, kanin Unadi aff. and vuk augment, form irr.; before the vowel affs. of the second case plural, and the last five cases, the va of this word is changed to u, and thence becomes o as usual, as maghonaḥ, maghonā, maghone, &c.; also with ṅīṣ aff. the fem. form is maghīnī f. (-nī) Sachi, the wife of Indra.
Maghavan (मघवन्).—a curtailed form of the next. I. adj., f. ghonī, Wealthy,
Maghavan (मघवन्).—([feminine] maghonī) [adjective] rich in gifts, liberal, generous; [masculine] the institutor or patron of a sacrifice, [Epithet] of Indra.
Maghavat (मघवत्):—[=magha-vat] [from magha] mfn. See next.
1) Maghavan (मघवन्):—[=magha-van] [from magha] mfn. (magha-.) (middle stem magha-vat [which may be used throughout], weak stem maghon; [nominative case] m. maghavā or vān f. maghonī or maghavatī [Vopadeva]; n. maghavat; [nominative case] [plural] m. once maghonas; cf. [Pāṇini 6-4, 128; 133]), possessing or distributing gifts, bountiful, liberal, munificent ([especially] said of Indra and other gods, but also of institutors of sacrifices who pay the priests and singers), [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Upaniṣad]
2) [v.s. ...] m. Name of Indra (also [plural] vantaḥ), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] of a Vyāsa or arranger of the Purāṇas, [Catalogue(s)]
4) [v.s. ...] of a Dānava, [Harivaṃśa]
5) [v.s. ...] of the 3rd Cakra-vartin in Bhārata, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Maghavat (मघवत्):—(vān) 5. m. A name of Indra.
Maghavan (मघवन्):—(vān) 5. m. Indra; one of the great monarchs of the Jainas.
Maghavan (मघवन्):—und vant (von magha), proparoxyt. in der späteren Sprache [Uṇādisūtra.1,158.] oxyt. [Siddhāntakaumudī 21,b,1. fg.] In den vedischen Schriften erscheinen folgende Formen: nom. vā (vān [Ṛgveda 4, 16, 1.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6, 58, 1.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa]), voc. maghavan, vānam, maghonas ( [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 4, 133]), vānā, maghonos, vānaḥ, maghonas, vadbhis, vadbhyas, maghānām, vatsu; f. maghonī; nach [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 4, 128] und [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 3, 114—117] sind alle Casus von beiden Formen vorhanden und das f. lautet auch maghavatī [?(Vopadeva’s Grammatik 4, 12).]
1) adj. freigebig, gabenreich; Spender, namentlich Bez. des Veranstalters eines Opfers als Lohnherrn oder Miethers, von welchem Priester und Sänger belohnt werden: maṃhiṣṭhaṃ ma.honām [Ṛgveda 5, 39, 4. 42, 8. 6, 27, 8. 68, 2. 7, 32, 7. 8, 1, 30. 2, 33. 34. 19, 34.] ma.hairma.hono.ati śūra dāśasi [24, 2.] bhava ma.havā.rādhaso ma.aḥ [9, 31, 3. 96, 11. 97, 55. 10, 27, 4.] ma.hono rakṣa ta.vaśca schütze die Lohnherren und uns [1, 31, 12. 2, 6, 4. 27, 17.] ma, stotāraḥ [5, 64, 4.] ma, ṛṣayaḥ [65, 6.] gṛṇant, maghavānaḥ [1, 58, 9. 73, 5.] a.māsu.rāyo ma.havatsu ca syuḥ [123, 13. 136, 7. 5, 18, 5. 6, 23, 10. 46. 9. 7, 7, 7. 12, 2. 16, 7. 8, 5, 12. 9, 63, 6.] yadīśīyā.ṛtānāmu.a vā.martyānām . jīve.inma.havā.mama [10, 33, 8. 81, 6.] So heisst vornämlich Indra [Ṛgveda 3, 30, 3. 4, 16, 1. 19.] u.a smā.hi tvāmā.urinma.havānaṃ śacīpate [?31, 7. 42, 5. 7, 26, 1. 27, 4. 28, 5. Taittirīyasaṃhitā 4, 4, 8, 1. The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 4, 1, 13. Kenopaniṣad 24. Kauṣītakyupaniṣad 2, 11. die Aśvin Ṛgveda 1, 184, 5. 3, 58, 5. 8, 26, 7. Uṣas 1, 48, 8. 113, 5. 4, 51, 3. 5, 79, 4. 6, 65, 3. 6. 7, 2, 6.] andere Götter [4, 28, 5. 5, 86, 3. 6, 58, 4. 7, 48, 1. 58, 6. 8, 33, 1.] der Wagen der Aśvin [1, 157, 3.] —
2) m. a) in der nachvedischen Sprache ein Name Indra's: maghavā [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 1, 36.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 174.] [Halāyudha 1, 52.] [Nalopākhyāna 2, 14.] [Arjunasamāgama 11, 4.] [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 26.] [Vikramorvaśī 86, 19.] maghavān [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 171.] [Mahābhārata 3, 1809.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 5, 11.] [Bhaṭṭikavya 18, 19.] maghavan voc. [Nalopākhyāna 2, 15.] [Raghuvaṃśa 3, 46.] maghavatā [Harivaṃśa 251.] [Vikramorvaśī 88, 21.] maghonas [Kumārasaṃbhava 3, 1.] [Śākuntala 185.] [Meghadūta 6.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 35, 7.] maghavatas [Śākuntala 95, 12.] maghoni [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 15, 10.] maghavantaḥ nom. pl. [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 79, 6.] im comp.: maghavanmuktakuliśa [Spr. 2744.] maghavannagara [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 10.] Sammler von Purāṇa [Oxforder Handschriften 80,a,11.] — b) Nomen proprium eines Dānava [Harivaṃśa 198.] — c) Nomen proprium des 3ten Cakravartin in Bhārata [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 692.] — Vgl. mahī, māghavata, māghavana .
Maghavan (मघवन्):—(schwach maghon f. maghonī und maghavant —
1) Adj. freigebig , gabenreich ; m. Spender , insbes. vom Veranstalter eines Opfers als Lohnherrn oder Miether , der Priester und Sänger belohnt. —
2) m. — a) Beiname Indra's. Auch Pl. — b) Nomen proprium — α) eines Sammlers von Purāṇa — β) eines Dānava. — γ) eines Kalravartin in Bharata.
Maghavan (मघवन्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Maghava, Maghoṇa.
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