Malina, Malinā: 33 definitions
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In Hinduism
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Malinā (मलिना, “pale”) refers to a specific “glance” (dṛṣṭi), according to the Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 8. This is a type of glance that expresses a ‘transitory state’ (saṃcāribhāva). There are a total thirty-six glances defined.
A type of glance (or facial expression): Malina: the lashes partly closed as if by rheum, the pupils sunken; this unclean eye denotes women (i.e. dissipation).
Malinā (मलिना).—A type of glance (dṛṣṭi) expressing a transitory state (saṃcāribhāva);—The Glance in which ends of the eyelashes are not shaking and ends of the eyes are pale, and which is characterised very much by half-shut eyelids, is called Malinā (pale).
Uses of Malinā (pale)—in discouragement, change of colour.
Malinā (मलिना) refers to one of the Thirty six kinds of Glances (dṛṣṭi) or “proper accomplishment of glances” (in Indian Dramas), according to the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, an ancient Sanskrit text which (being encyclopedic in nature) deals with a variety of cultural topics such as arts, architecture, music, grammar and astronomy.—Dṛṣṭi is very important in a dance form. The appropriate movements of eyes, eyeballs and eyebrows of an artist make the performance more charming. There are thirty six kinds of glances (dṛṣṭi) accepted in the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, for example malinā, belonging to the sañcāriṇadṛṣṭi division.
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).
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Malina (मलिन) refers to “dirty”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.25 (“The seven celestial sages test Pārvatī”).—Accordingly, as the seven Sages said (with false words) to Pārvatī: “[...] Nārada is a quibbler. He misleads others. If his words are paid heed to, you stand to lose in every respect. [...] Whomsoever this sage advocates his philosophy, very pleasing to the ears, generally the same person discards his hearth and home and begins to beg for alms. Nārada has a dirty soul [i.e., malina-ātman] though he is endowed with a white brilliant complexion for ever. We know him particularly because we are his associates. [...]”.
Malina (मलिन).—A son of Trasu, a Brahmavādin.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 99. 132.
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.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Malina (मलिन, “weakened”) refers to one of the sixty defects of mantras, according to the 11th century Kulārṇava-tantra: an important scripture of the Kaula school of Śāktism traditionally stated to have consisted of 125.000 Sanskrit verses.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Śrī Devī: “For those who do japa without knowing these defects [e.g., malina—weakened], there is no realization even with millions and billions of japa. [...] Oh My Beloved! there are ten processes for eradicating defects in Mantras as described. [...]”.
Malina (मलिन) or Malinavrata refers to the “vow of impurity ”, according to the Brahmayāmala verse 21.1-4ab.—Accordingly, “Next I will explain the vows born from Ucchuṣma (Bhairava). The Vow of Nakedness is one. The second is (the vow of wearing) rags. The third one is the one of impurity [i.e., malina—malinaṃ nāma]. The fourth is (the Vow of) Madness. The sixth one is said to be the one of the skull. The sixth one is said to be (the Vow of) Bhairava. The seventh is called the (vow of behaving like a) child. The eighth is (the vow of) eating meat. The ninth is the (vow of) growth, which gives all accomplishments. These are said to be the nine Vows that belong to the Vidyā division”.
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.
Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)
Malina (मलिन) refers to the “impure (path)”, according to the Jayadrathayāmala, Ṣaṭka 1 verse 13.3–18::—Accordingly, “[...] Thus, the Ācārya should only purify the bad [karma]. Alternatively, [only] the impure (malina) path is purified, [so that] no experience comes about [in the impure universe]. [In other words] that [experience] does not have to be experienced [anymore in the impure universe] because it has already been experienced [through the process of initiation]. The soul [of the initiate] goes straight to the higher level (i.e. the pure universe). That is known to be the initiation called lokadharma, which leads to liberation. Such [an initiation] [is performed] when the past action has been destroyed, but the prārabdhakarma [is present], O loved one. [...]”.
Malina (मलिन) refers to “impurity”, according to the Netratantra of Kṣemarāja: a Śaiva text from the 9th century in which Śiva (Bhairava) teaches Pārvatī topics such as metaphysics, cosmology, and soteriology.—Accordingly, [verse 21.9cd-14]—“[But if mantras were aṇu [they] would be embodied forms of separation. The essential selves are known as impure (malina) [and are] by no means powerful. Whose impurity does the impure remove? Aṇu mantras [and] devalas are not perfected, O Parameśvara. Without existence, the three kinds of tattvas are kept from a multitude of objects. There, union is declared to be the desire for another living being’s welfare.[...]”.
Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Malina (मलिन) [=malin?] refers to “filthy”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “This body is filthy in nature (nisarga-malina), reprehensible, filled with much that is impure, produced from semen and other seeds, [and] is the abode of contempt. Where is the body, which is filled with blood, flesh and fat, has a skeleton of slender bones, is bound with tendons and is of bad odour, praised?”.
Synonyms: Malīmasa.
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.
India history and geography
Mālina (मालिन) possibly corresponds to the ancient name for Campā: the capital of Aṅga: one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas of the Majjhimadesa (Middle Country) of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—Aṅga’s capital Campā was situated on the river (mod. Chāndan) of the same name (Jātaka 506) and the Ganges, 17 at a distance of 60 yojanas from Mithilā. The actual site of Campā, the ancient capital of Aṅga, is probably marked by two villages Campānagara and Campāpura that still exist near Bhagalpur. The ancient name of Campā was probably Mālinī or Mālina as stated in the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, and the Harivaṃśa.
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.
Biology (plants and animals)
Malina in Hawaii is the name of a plant defined with Agave sisalana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Agave sisalana (Engelm.) Perrine (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Magn. Reson. Chem.
· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1889)
· Lloydia (1974)
· Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1913)
· Tropical Plants (1838)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1768)
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Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
malina : (adj.) dirty; stained; impure. (nt.), impurity.
Malina, (adj.) (fr. mal, *mel to make dirty, to which belongs mala.—Cp. Lat. mulleus reddish, purple; Gr. mέlas black, molu/nw to stain, mέltos reddish; Lith. mulvas yellowish, mélynas blue; Ohg. māl stain) dirty, stained, impure, usually lit.—J. I, 467; Miln. 324; DhA. I, 233; VvA. 156; PvA. 226; VbhA. 498. (Page 525)
1) malina (မလိန) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[mala+ina．malayuttatāyamalīno,ino,dīgho．,ṭī．699-7va1．mala+ta．nirutti,nhā．5va1．mala+ita．nirutti,nhā．335．]
[မလ+ဣန။မလယုတ္တတာယမလီနော၊ဣနော၊ဒီဃော။ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၉၉-၇ဝ၁။မလ+တ။နိရုတ္တိ၊နှာ။၅ဝ၁။မလ+ဣတ။နိရုတ္တိ၊နှာ။၃၃၅။]
2) malīna (မလီန) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[mala+ina．malayuttatāyamalīno,ino,dīgho．,ṭī．699-7va1．mala+ta．nirutti,nhā．5va1．mala+ita．nirutti,nhā．335．]
[မလ+ဣန။မလယုတ္တတာယမလီနော၊ဣနော၊ဒီဃော။ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၉၉-၇ဝ၁။မလ+တ။နိရုတ္တိ၊နှာ။၅ဝ၁။မလ+ဣတ။နိရုတ္တိ၊နှာ။၃၃၅။]
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
malina (मलिन).—a (S) Dirty, filthy, foul. 2 fig. Foul with crime or vice; criminal, vitious, corrupt, depraved. 3 Lax, heedless, slovenly, nasty; esp. as disregardful of the enjoined rites and acts towards personal purity. 4 Dull or dim, rusty--learning &c. from disuse, or a learned man from non-practice.
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maḷīṇa (मळीण).—a (malina S or from maḷa) Dirty, filthy, foul. 2 Foul figuratively; soiled with crime or vice. 3 Rusty, not fresh or ready--learning &c.
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māḷīṇa (माळीण).—f (māḷī) A female gardener. 2 (Because it is removed by sniffing flowers.) A painful pimple that arises in the nose.
malina (मलिन).—a Dirty. Nasty. Dull. Fig. Vicious.
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maḷīṇa (मळीण).—a Dirty, filthy; foul. Rusty.
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māḷīṇa (माळीण).—f A female gardener. A nose-pimple.
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
Malina (मलिन).—a. [mala astyarthe inan]
1) Dirty, foul, filthy, impure, unclean, soiled, stained, sullied (fig. also); धन्यास्तदङ्गरजसा मलिनीभवन्ति (dhanyāstadaṅgarajasā malinībhavanti) Ś.7.17; किमिति मुधा मलिनं यशः कुरुध्वे (kimiti mudhā malinaṃ yaśaḥ kurudhve) Ve.3.4.
2) Black, dark (fig. also); मलिनमपि हिमांशोर्लक्ष्म लक्ष्मीं तनोति (malinamapi himāṃśorlakṣma lakṣmīṃ tanoti) Ś.1.2; अतिमलिने कर्तव्ये भवति खलानामतीव निपुणा धीः (atimaline kartavye bhavati khalānāmatīva nipuṇā dhīḥ) Vās; Śiśupālavadha 9.18.
3) Sinful, wicked, depraved; धियो हि पुंसां मलिना भवन्ति (dhiyo hi puṃsāṃ malinā bhavanti) H.1.26; मलिनाचरितं कर्म सुरभेर्नन्वसांप्रतम् (malinācaritaṃ karma surabhernanvasāṃpratam) Kāv.2.178.
4) Low, vile, base; लघवः प्रकटीभवन्ति मलिनाश्रयतः (laghavaḥ prakaṭībhavanti malināśrayataḥ) Śiśupālavadha 9.23.
5) Clouded, obscured.
-nam 1 Sin, fault, guilt.
2) Butter-milk.
3) Borax.
4) A dirty cloth; ततो मलिनसंबीतां राक्षसीभिः समावृताम् (tato malinasaṃbītāṃ rākṣasībhiḥ samāvṛtām) Rām.5.15.18.
-nā, -nī A woman during menstruation.
Malina (मलिन).—name of a nāga king: Megh 306.10.
Malina (मलिन).—mfn.
(-naḥ-nā-naṃ) 1. Dirty, filth, foul. 2. Black. 3. Vile, bad. 4. Foul, (figuratively,) soiled with crime or vice, sinful, depraved. n.
(-naṃ) 1. Butter-milk. 2. Fault, defect. 3. Borax. f. (-nī) A woman during menstruation. E. mala dirt, ilan Unadi aff.
Malina (मलिन).—i. e. mala + in + a, I. adj. 1. Dirty, [Pañcatantra] iii. [distich] 178; soiled, [Hitopadeśa] ii. [distich] 39. 2. Black, [Śiśupālavadha] 9, 18; obscure, ib. 23; obscured, [Hitopadeśa] i. [distich] 27, M. M. 3. Sinful. 4. Bad. Ii. n. 1. Fault. 2. Buttermilk.
Malina (मलिन).—[adjective] dirty, impure (lit. & [figuratively]); darkcoloured, gray, black. [masculine] a religious mendicant; [neuter] meanness, fault, sin.
1) Malina (मलिन):—[from mala] a mfn. dirty, filthy, impure, soiled, tarnished ([literally] and [figuratively]), [Yājñavalkya; Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] of a dark colour, gray, dark gray, black, [Śiśupāla-vadha; Rājataraṅgiṇī] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] m. a religious mendicant wearing dirty clothes (perhaps) a Pāśupata, [Viṣṇu-smṛti, viṣṇu-sūtra, vaiṣṇava-dharma-śāstra]
4) [v.s. ...] Name of a son of Taṃsu, [Viṣṇu-purāṇa] ([varia lectio] anila)
5) [v.s. ...] f(ā or ī). (ā [Prāyaścitta-tattva] or ī [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) a woman during menstruation
6) [v.s. ...] n. a vile or bad action, [Pañcatantra; Bhartṛhari; Viddhaśālabhañjikā]
7) [v.s. ...] buttermilk, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
8) [v.s. ...] water, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
9) [v.s. ...] borax, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
10) b etc. See [column]2.
Malina (मलिन):—[(naḥ-nā-naṃ) a.] Dirty, balck, bad. f. (nī) Menstruous woman. n. Fault; butter-milk; borax.
[Sanskrit to German]
Malina (मलिन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Maila, Maliṇa.
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
1) Malina (मलिन) [Also spelled malin]:—(a) dirty, filthy, tarnished; shabby; gloomy; ~[tā] dirtiness, filthiness; shabbiness; tarnish; gloominess; ~[prabha] lustreless, who has lost brilliance; tarnished; ~[mukha] sad; melancholy, gloomy.
2) Malīna (मलीन):—(a) see [malīna; ~tā] see [malinatā] (under [malina]).
3) Mālina (मालिन) [Also spelled malin]:—(nf) a maid gardener; wife of a gardener (feminine form of [mālī]).
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Maliṇa (मलिण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Malina.
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
Malina (ಮಲಿನ):—
1) [adjective] dirty; soiled; filthy.
2) [adjective] defective; deficient in; imperfect.
3) [adjective] indistinct; hazy.
4) [adjective] dull; murky; gloomy.
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Malina (ಮಲಿನ):—
1) [noun] dirt; dust; filth.
2) [noun] an offence against, god, religion or custom; a sin.
3) [noun] a piece of dirty cloth; soiled clothing.
4) [noun] black colour.
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Maḷina (ಮಳಿನ):—
1) [adjective] dirty; soiled; filthy.
2) [adjective] defective; deficient in; imperfect.
3) [adjective] indistinct; hazy.
4) [adjective] dull; murky; gloomy.
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Maḷina (ಮಳಿನ):—
1) [noun] dirt; dust; filth.
2) [noun] an offence against, god, religion, custom, etc.; a sin.
3) [noun] a piece of dirty cloth; soiled clothing.
4) [noun] black colour.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Malina (मलिन):—adj. 1. dirty; foul; filthy; impure; stained; 2. black; dark; 3. low; vile; base; 4. sinful; wicked; depraved; 5. withered; faded; dull;
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)
Starts with (+10): Malina Mamata, Malinabhavakarana, Malinabhavapaccaya, Malinabhavavaha, Malinacitta, Malinadhatuka, Malinadrishti, Malinahattha, Malinaka, Malinakarana, Malinakata, Malinam, Malinamanas, Malinambu, Malinamukan, Malinamukha, Malinana, Malinaprabha, Malinasabhava, Malinasarira.
Full-text (+56): Amalina, Malinasya, Malinambu, Malinata, Malinaka, Malinatva, Malinamukha, Malinaprabha, Malinahattha, Malinasataka, Malinakarana, Kilesamalina, Malinacitta, Pancamalina, Malinasabhava, Malinatman, Malinam, Malina Mamata, Gundaka, Malimasa.
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