Alternative spellings of this word include Mulachchheda.

In Hinduism

Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)

Source: archive.org: Syainika Sastra of Rudradeva with English Translation (art)

Mūlaccheda (मूलच्छेद) refers to “ruinous charity”, according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, “[...] It has been said that there are eighteen addictions. These are the outcome of the desire for earthly enjovments. [...] Abuse of money is (a) want of discrimination in accepting and making gifts; (b) refusal of legitimate gifts; (c) making gifts to undeserving persons; (d) ruinous charity (mūlaccheda), and (e) resumption of charities. This should be practised with caution by trusted emissaries in an enemy’s country. [...]”.

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This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.

Vedanta (school of philosophy)

Source: Wikisource: Ashtavakra Gita

Mūlaccheda (मूलच्छेद) refers to “having cut the root (of unhappiness)” (of the world), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[...] Even when living without any support and eager for achievement, the stupid are still nourishing Saṃsāra, while the wise have cut at the very root (mūlaccheda) of its unhappiness. [etasyānarthamūlasya mūlacchedaḥ kṛto budhaiḥ] The stupid does not find peace because he is wanting it, while the wise discriminating the truth is always peaceful minded. [...]”.

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Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Mūlacheda (मूलछेद).—uprooting.

Derivable forms: mūlachedaḥ (मूलछेदः).

Mūlacheda is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mūla and cheda (छेद).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Mūlaccheda (मूलच्छेद):—[=mūla-ccheda] [from mūla > mūl] m. cutting away the r°, c° up by the r°, [Mahābhārata; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]

[Sanskrit to German]

Mulaccheda in German

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Mūlacchēda (ಮೂಲಚ್ಛೇದ):—

1) [noun] a tearing or being torn up by the roots.

2) [noun] (fig.) a complete destruction or eradication.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Mūlaccheda (मूलच्छेद):—n. extirpation;

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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.

Pali-English dictionary

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

mūlaccheda (မူလစ္ဆေဒ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[mūla+cheda]
[မူလ+ဆေဒ]

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

mūlaccheda—

(Burmese text): အမြစ်အရင်း-ပြတ်ခြင်း-ဖြတ်ခြင်း(သဒ္ဒတ္ထ)၊ အပိုင်ပေးခြင်း(အဓိပ္ပါယတ္ထ)။

(Auto-Translation): Source reduction - cutting - severing (narrative), granting (meaning).

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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: Ccheda, Cheda, Mula, Ceta.

Starts with: Mulacchedana.

Full-text: Amulacchedakatabhikkhu, Cheda, Mulchchhed, Anarthamula, Mula.

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