Nibha, Nibhā: 19 definitions
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Nibha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, 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.
In Hinduism
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Nibhā (निभा) means “resembling” (i.e., that which is like), according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, “(You are) the Doomsday Fire (saṃvartā) within the primordial lord (ādinātha), the energy of supreme Śiva, the famed Kaulinī. You are Vakrā, the Transmental the primordial (power) (ādyā), who is like the rays of the radiance (of ultimate reality) [i.e., dyutikiraṇa-nibhā]; (you are) Śāmbhavī, the mother of liberation. (You are) the unfailing current of Kaula knowledge and, residing in the End of the Sixteen, (you) accomplish all things. O Saṃvartā, (you are) the mother of mantra, blissful and innate (sahajā) and called ‘Mother’ (ambikā) in (each) sacred seat and field”.
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)
Nibha (निभ) refers to “resembling” (i.e., ‘that which resembles a drop of cow’s milk or jasmine’), 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 3.17-23, while describing a meditation on Amṛteśa in his form as Mṛtyujit]—“And so now, having constructed the amṛtāmudrā or the padmamudrā, [the mantrin] should meditate on the Ātman. The deity is equal in splendor [to that] of ten million moons, as bright as pellucid pearls, and as magnificent as quartz stone, he resembles drop of cow’s milk or jasmine (kunda-indu-gokṣīra-nibha), mountain snow, and is everywhere. [...]”.
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.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Agriculture (Krishi) and Vrikshayurveda (study of Plant life)
Nibha (निभ) refers to the “color” or “appearance” of fruits, which were commonly manipulated according to bio-organic principles described in the Vṛkṣāyurveda by Sūrapāla (1000 CE): an encyclopedic work dealing with the study of trees and the principles of ancient Indian agriculture.—Accordingly, “The white flowers of a tree turn into a golden colour (svarṇa-nibha) if it is smeared at the roots with the mixture of Rubia cordifolia, red lead, milk, a kind of fragrant earth and flesh of pigeon”.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Nibha (निभ) refers to “resembling”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “That [cosmos] is not at all produced by anyone, not at all sustained by anyone, so also not destroyed by anyone. Nevertheless, that exists by itself without support in the atmosphere. [...] It is the shape of a cane stool in the lower region, like a cymbal (jhallarī-nibha) in the middle and it is like a drum on the top. Thus, that consists of three parts”.
Synonyms: Saṃnibha, Tulya, Sadṛśa, Ākāra.
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
Pali-English dictionary
nibha : (adj.) equal to; resembling. || nibhā (f.), lustre; light.
Nibha, (adj.) (Sk. nibha, to bhāti) shining; like, equal to, resembling (-°) J. V, 372; Vv 401; Pv IV. 312; VvA. 122 (vaṇṇa°=vaṇṇa); Nd2 608. (Page 366)
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Nibhā, (f.) (to nibha) shine, lustre, splendour VvA. 179 (nibhāti dippatī ti nibhā). (Page 366)
1) nibha (နိဘ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[ni+bhā+a．nipubba bhā dittiyaṃ a,ni bho．sūci．dhātvattha．(nibha-saṃ,addhamāgadhī,ṇibhaç ṇihā-prā)]
[နိ+ဘာ+အ။ နိပုဗ္ဗ ဘာ ဒိတ္တိယံ အ၊ နိ ဘော။ သူစိ။ ဓာတွတ္ထ။ (နိဘ-သံ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ၊ ဏိဘ,ဏိဟာ-ပြာ)]
2) nibhā (နိဘာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[ni+bhā+a+(kvi)．nīti,sutta．1249,1266．]
[နိ+ဘာ+အ+(ကွိ)။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။ ၁၂၄၉၊ ၁၂၆၆။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) nibha—
(Burmese text): တူသော။ (အတူ၊ တူသော၊ အသွင် သဏ္ဌာန်ပုံပန်းတူသော။ သရက်ပင်။ သီဟိုဠ်၊ ဓာန်)။
(Auto-Translation): Similar. (Together, alike, having the same appearance and characteristics. Coconut tree. Taurus, element)
2) nibhā—
(Burmese text): အရောင်၊ အဆင်း။
(Auto-Translation): Color, style.
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
Nibha (निभ).—[ni-bhā-ka]
1) (At the end of comp. only) Like, similar, resembling; उद्बुद्धमुग्धकनकाब्जनिभं वहन्ती (udbuddhamugdhakanakābjanibhaṃ vahantī) Māl. 1.4; Meghadūta 83; so चन्द्रनिभानना (candranibhānanā) &c.
-bhaḥ, -bham 1 appearance, light, manifestation.
2) Pretence, disguise, pretext.
3) A trick, fraud.
Nibhā (निभा).—(= Pali id.), appearance, sheen: Lalitavistara 255.6; 256.5, 10 (all prose). In Sanskrit recorded only as -nibha in [bahuvrīhi] adjectives; but the existence of the noun in Pali makes Weller's note, 30 f., quite valueless.
Nibha (निभ).—mfn.
(-bhaḥ-bhā-bhaṃ) Like, resembling, similar. mn.
(-bhaḥ-bhaṃ) 1. fraud, trick, disguise, pretence. 2. Light, manifestation, appearance. E. ni before, bhā to shine, affix ka.
Nibha (निभ).—[-ni-bha] (vb. bhā), latter part of comp. adj., f. bhā. 1. Like, resembling, [Rāmāyaṇa] 3, 49, 34. 2. Pleonastically in cāru-nibha-ānana, adj. Handsome-faced, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 11789.
Nibha (निभ).—[adjective] like, equal to (—°).
1) Nibha (निभ):—[=ni-bha] mf(ā)n. (√bhā) resembling, like, similar (ifc.), [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa] etc. (sometimes pleonast. after [adjective (cf. [masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective])] e.g. cāru-nibhānana, ‘handsome-faced’ [Harivaṃśa, or] [compound] with a synonym e.g. naga-nibhopama, ‘mountain-like’ [Mahābhārata]; padma-pattrābha-nibha, ‘like a lotus-leaf’ [ib.])
2) [v.s. ...] m. or n. appearance, pretext (only ifc. [instrumental case] [Daśakumāra-carita]; [ablative] [Kathāsaritsāgara]).
Nibha (निभ):—[ni-bha] (bhaḥ-bhā-bhaṃ) a. Like, similar. m. Fraud; disguise; light.
Nibha (निभ):—(von bhā mit ni)
1) adj. f. ā am Ende eines comp. gleich, ähnlich [Amarakoṣa.2,10,38.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.3,3,287.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1462.] [Medinīkoṣa bh. 6.] [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda.2,44. 14,12.] [Nalopākhyāna 11,30. 12,21. 16,10. 22.] [Hiḍimbavadha.3,9.4,29.] [Rāmāyaṇa.2,26,10. 93,3.5,18,26.] [Suśruta.1,313,20. 258,13. 14.] [Meghadūta 79.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S.3,24. 29. 10,20. 33,6. 82 (80,b),4.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 26,144.] [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 20.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.3,33,16.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 6. 8. 1421.] aghoṣanibhatā [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 14, 8.] Nach Adjectiven pleonastisch: cārunibhānanā [Harivaṃśa 11789.] rucira [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 29, 22. 46, 27 (28).] asita [81 80,a,11.] Bedeutsam dagegen in eka einförmig [53, 90.] Zum Ueberfluss mit Synonymen zusammengestellt: naganibhopama [Mahābhārata 8, 2537.] padmapattrābha [4, 1195.] suratulyanibhekṣaṇaiḥ [Pañcatantra III, 69.] Könnte füglich auf ein subst. f. nibhā Schein, Aehnlichkeit zurückgeführt werden; vgl. saṃnibha. nibha m. = prakāśa [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) Schein, Vorwand; m. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Medinīkoṣa] [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] n. [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 378.] [Halāyudha 4, 24.] bhikṣānibhena [Daśakumāracarita 162, 11.] snānanibhāt [Kathāsaritsāgara 4, 57.]
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Nibha (निभ):—
2) viśeṣecchānibhāt [Kathāsaritsāgara 24, 140.]
Nibha (निभ):——
1) Adj. (f. ā) gleich , ähnlich. Pleonastisch nach einem Adj. und in Verbindung mit andern Synonymen. Nom.abstr. tā f. —
2) (*m. n. ) Schein , Vorwand. Nur im Instr. und Abl.
Nibha (निभ) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Ṇiha, Ṇemma.
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
Nibha (ನಿಭ):—[adjective] having almost or excactly the same qualities, characteristics, from, etc.; similar; equal; like.
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Nibha (ನಿಭ):—
1) [noun] a false or deceiving appearance; preense; guise.
2) [noun] a false reason or motive putforth to hide the real one; a pretext.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Mi, Bha, A, Ni.
Starts with (+13): Nibhaganem, Nibhal, Nibhala, Nibhalana, Nibhalayate, Nibhalita, Nibhaliya, Nibhamga, Nibhamnem, Nibhana, Nibhanakti, Nibhanem, Nibhanj, Nibhanjana, Nibhara, Nibharatana, Nibhartsana, Nibhartsayat, Nibhasad, Nibhasarupa.
Full-text (+72): Upanibha, Nibhati, Kharagandhanibha, Arunanibha, Candranibha, Nibhasarupa, Umapupphasarinnibha, Tapaniyanibhasubha, Pabhassaravaravannanibha, Sannibha, Nibhata, Yavanalanibha, Vannanibha, Meghanibha, Svarnanibha, Meghavannasirinibha, Nilavalahakanibha, Mecakanibha, Varnanibha, Nirbhasa.
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