Nananda, Nanandā, Nanamda, Nà nán dà, Na nan da: 10 definitions
Introduction:
Nananda means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit. 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
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Nanandā (ननन्दा, “sister-in-law”).—One of the Eleven Hands denoting Relationships.—(Instructions:) Following the Bhartṛ-bhrātṛ hand the Strī hand is shown with the left.
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
nanandā : (f.) husband's sister.
nanandā (နနန္ဒာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[na+nanda+a+ā．sāmino bhattu bhaginī nanandā nāma,na nandatīti nanandā,．．．nanda samiddhiyaṃ,bhūvādi．,ṭī．245．(svabhattabhagi,nanaṃda iti bhāpā,．．．nanandati bhātajāyāmīti vā．cintāmaṇi)．]
[န+နန္ဒ+အ+အာ။ သာမိနော ဘတ္တု ဘဂိနီ နနန္ဒာ နာမ၊ န နန္ဒတီတိ နနန္ဒာ၊．．．နန္ဒ သမိဒ္ဓိယံ၊ ဘူဝါဒိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂၄၅။ (သွဘတ္တဘဂိနျာမ်၊ နနံဒ ဣတိ ဘာပါ၊．．．နနန္ဒတိ ဘာတဇာယာမီတိ ဝါ။ စိန္တာမဏိ)။]
[Pali to Burmese]
nanandā—
(Burmese text): ယောက်မ၊ လင်၏နှမ။
(Auto-Translation): "Sister of the man."
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
naṇandā (नणंदा).—m sometimes naṇadayā m W naṇadōī m P The husband of a husband's sister.
naṇandā (नणंदा).—m sometimes naṇadayā m naṇadōī m The husband of a husband's sister.
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
Nānanda (नानन्द):—(vom intens. von nand) n. indrasya nānandam Name eines Sāman [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 221.] — Vgl. nānanda .
Nananda (ननन्द):—(!) und nanandar m. = nanāndar.
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Nānanda (नानन्द):—n. fehlerhaft für nānada Comm. zu [Lāṭyāyana’s Śrautasūtra 4,5,7.]
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Ṇaṇaṃdā (णणंदा) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Nanāndṛ.
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.
Chinese-English dictionary
那難大 [nà nán dà] refers to: “Nālandā” [Sanskrit place name].
那難大 is further associated with the following language/terms:
[Related Chinese terms] 那爛陁.
[Vietnamese] na nan đại.
[Korean] 나란대 / Narandae.
[Japanese] ナナンダイ / Nanandai.
Chinese language.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Nan, A, Da, Nanda, Ta, Na.
Starts with: Nanandam, Nanandana, Nanandar, Nanandara.
Full-text: Nanada, Nalanda, Nanandam, Nanandri, Nanantarikabhava, Nand, Na lan tuo, Asanna, Pariplava.
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Text 7.87 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary) (by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja)
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