Nandiraga, Nandirāga: 5 definitions
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Nandiraga means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali. 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.
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Pali-English dictionary
nandirāga : (m.) passionate delight.
Nandirāga refers to: pleasure & lust, passionate delight S. II, 227; III, 51; IV, 142, 174, 180; M. I, 145; Dhs. 1059≈, 1136; esp. as attr. of taṇhā in phrase n-r-sahagata-taṇhā (cp. M Vastu III, 332: nandīrāgasahagatā tṛṣṇā) Vin. I, 10; S. III, 158; V, 425 sq.; Ps. II, 137; Nett 72;
Note: nandirāga is a Pali compound consisting of the words nandi and rāga.
1) nandirāga (နန္ဒိရာဂ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[nandi+rāga]
[နန္ဒိ+ရာဂ]
2) nandīrāga (နန္ဒီရာဂ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[nandī(nandi)+rāga]
[နန္ဒီ(နန္ဒိ)+ရာဂ]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) nandirāga—
(Burmese text): နန္ဒီရာဂ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Nandiraag - Look.
2) nandīrāga—
(Burmese text): (က) နှစ်သက်-တတ်မက်-တတ်-ကြောင်းဖြစ်-သော တဏှာ။ (ခ) နှစ်သက်-တတ်မက်-တတ်-ကြောင်းဖြစ်-သော တဏှာ၏အဖြစ်။ နန္ဒီရာဂသဟဂတ-ကြည့်။ (ဂ) နန္ဒီရာဂမည်သော ကံ။ နန္ဒီရာဂပရိက္ခီဏ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (a) The essence that is loved and skilled. (b) The nature that is loved and skilled. Look at the Nandi Raga. (c) The fate that is named after Nandi Raga. Look at the Nandi Raga Parikhina.

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
Nandīrāga (नन्दीराग).—see nandī.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Nanti, Nandi, Raga.
Starts with: Nandiragabaddha, Nandiragakkhaya, Nandiragapaccaya, Nandiragaparikkhina, Nandiragappahana, Nandiragasabhava, Nandiragasahagata.
Full-text: Nandiragappahana, Nandiragapaccaya, Nandiragakkhaya, Nandiragaparikkhina, Nandiragasabhava, Nandiragabaddha, Kamatanha, Nandi, Xi tan, Asivisa Sutta, Vammika Sutta, Tanha.
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