Niryana, Niryāṇa: 13 definitions
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In Hinduism
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by VarahamihiraNiryāṇa (निर्याण) refers to “one’s death”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “We shall now proceed to give a brief description of (the qualifications of) a jyotiṣaka. [...] He must be able to use the Aṣṭakavarga tables to a given horoscope. He must know how the several Raja, Candra, Dvigraha, and Nabhasa yogas affect the fortunes of men. He must also know how the fortunes of men are affected by the position and look of planets. He must be able to calculate the cause of one’s death [i.e., niryāṇa] and discover his future life”.
Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryniryāṇa (निर्याण).—n S Setting forth (on a journey); starting, departing. 2 Going forth or out.
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
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryNiryāṇa (निर्याण).—1 Exit, issue, setting out, departure.
2) Vanishing, disappearing.
3) Dying, doath.
4) Eternal emancipation, final beatitude.
5) The outer corner of the eye of an elephant; वारणं निर्याणमागेऽमिप्रन् (vāraṇaṃ niryāṇamāge'mipran) Daśakumāracarita 97; निर्याणनिर्यदसृजं चलितं निषादी (niryāṇaniryadasṛjaṃ calitaṃ niṣādī) Śiśupālavadha 5.41; Mātaṅga. L.6.9. 12.19.
6) A rope for tying cattle or the feet of a calf, a foot-rope in general; निर्याणहस्तस्य पुरो दुधुक्षतः (niryāṇahastasya puro dudhukṣataḥ) Śiśupālavadha 12.41.
7) Iron.
8) Decamping (of an army)
9) Going out (of cattle to the pasture ground).
1) A road leading out of a town.
Derivable forms: niryāṇam (निर्याणम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryNiryāṇa (निर्याण).—nt. (Pali niyyāna, in meaning 3; Pali and Sanskrit also going out, literally, and so [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] bhavaty aparyādattaḥ sarvapradīpaniryāṇaiḥ Gaṇḍavyūha 502.15, said of a light from which many other flames have been lighted, it does not become exhausted by the going forth from it of all the lights, in Sanskrit also in meaning of a military art, marching forth, as in Mahāvyutpatti 4986 = Tibetan mdun du bsnur (rnur, rgyu) ba, going forth; and niryāṇe Lalitavistara 156.12, in list of arts mastered by the Boddhisattva as prince; Divyāvadāna 442.6), (1) as in Sanskrit, departure: (bheruṇḍakā…manuṣyakuṇapāni vi-[WT ca] bhakṣayantaḥ,) teṣāṃ (sc. bheruṇḍakānāṃ) ca niryāṇu pratīkṣamāṇāḥ śvānāḥ śṛgālāś ca vasanty aneke Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 83.12 (verse), and waiting for them to leave…; Burnouf and Kern, matter, issue (of the putrescent corpses); (2) expertness, surpassing knowledge, skill, as n. act. (abstract) to niryāta 2, q.v.: bahulipi-niryāṇataḥ Lalitavistara 146.1—2, as regards expertness in many scripts; in niryāṇam iva sarvakuśala- mūlasya (Bodhisattvasya) Lalitavistara 10.4 something seems wrong with the reading; mss. vary greatly; Tibetan dge baḥi rtsa ba (= kuśalamūla) ṅes par byas pa, with rightly made or accomplished roots of merit, as if niryāta-kuśalamūlasya (per- haps rather nirjāta-?); it is often hard to distinguish this meaning from 3, below; the following cases seem to me more likely to belong here: parārthapratipatti-niryāṇa-Śikṣāsamuccaya 7.16—17, expertness (not dying, Bendall and Rouse) in accomplishing the interests of others; so probably when praṇidhi (°dhāna) depends on this, expertness, skill in accomplishing (the Bodhisattva's vow), -bodhisattvapraṇidhicaryā-niryāṇa- Gaṇḍavyūha 98.8; -praṇidhāna-niryāṇa-mukhāni Gaṇḍavyūha 490.2; (mahā- praṇidhānabalaṃ vā saṃvarṇayituṃ) (sc. praṇidhāna-?) niryāṇa-mukhaṃ vāvabhāsayituṃ Gaṇḍavyūha 99.8; less certain, perhaps to (3) deliverance, bodhisattva-niryāṇa-viśuddhi- parimārgaṇaṃ Gaṇḍavyūha 59.26; sarvajña-jñāna-niryāṇa-mārga- vidhiṃ pradarśayamānān Gaṇḍavyūha 86.5; mahāyāna-niryāṇam abhidyotayamānān Gaṇḍavyūha 92.18; surely here, because asso- ciated with niryāta, and rendered in Tibetan ṅes par ḥbyuṅ ba, Mahāvyutpatti 2543 (tho found in a chapter headed pariśuddha- paryāyāḥ, which might suggest deliverance); -aniryāṇa, [Page303-b+ 71] q.v., Tibetan mi ḥgyur ba, not arriving at, in -anyayānāniryāṇa- Mahāvastu 785; (3) (= Pali niyyāna) deliverance, salvation (compare niryāṇika, nair°), often hard to distinguish from 2 above: na cātyanta-niryāṇa-vihāriṇaḥ Gaṇḍavyūha 472.13 (this is a distinction of Bodhisattvas in the Mahāyāna); yaḥ punar dharmaṃ pratikṣipati śrāvaka-niryāṇa-bhāṣitaṃ vā pra- tyekabuddha-nir°-bhā° vā mahāyāna-nir°-bhā° vā pra- tikṣipati Śikṣāsamuccaya 59.15—16, seems most likely to mean deliver- ance, ‘Scheme of Deliverance’ (Bendall and Rouse); if so, the same must follow with parapudgalānāṃ ca yāna- traya-niryāṇāya Bodhisattvabhūmi 87.20; śrāvakayāna-niryāṇādhi- muktinānātvam avatarati Daśabhūmikasūtra 56.11; less certain, perhaps to 2 above, nidarśayitāro niryāṇa-mukhānām Gaṇḍavyūha 463.7; bodhisattvasyāvibhrānta-niryāṇam abhidyotitaṃ bhavati Bodhisattvabhūmi 258.2; -paramayāna-niryāṇa- Mahāvyutpatti 795 = Tibetan ḥbyuṅ ba, arriving at…; (4) deliverance from, curing of (a disease): Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.x.15.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryNiryāṇa (निर्याण).—n.
(-ṇaṃ) 1. Going forth or out, exit, issue. 2. Eternal emancipation, final beatitude. 3. A rope for tying cattle, a foot- rope. 4. The outer corner of an elephant’s eye. 5. Vanishing. 6. Death. E. nir before, yā to go, affix karaṇe lyuṭ.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryNiryāṇa (निर्याण).—i. e. nis-yā + ana, n. 1. Setting out, Mahābhārata 1, 333. 2. Vanishing, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 3, 261. 3. Death, Mahābhārata 15, 1050. 4. The outer corner of an elephant’s eye, [Śiśupālavadha] 5, 41. 5. A rope for binding a calf’s feet, 12, 41.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryNiryāṇa (निर्याण).—[neuter] going out or off, departure, disappearance, death.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Niryāṇa (निर्याण):—[=nir-yāṇa] [from nir-yā] n. going forth or out, exit, issue
2) [v.s. ...] setting out, decamping (of an army), going out (of cattle to the pasture ground), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] departure, vanishing, disappearance, [Rājataraṅgiṇī; Sāhitya-darpaṇa]
4) [v.s. ...] departure from life, death, [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa; Varāha-mihira]
5) [v.s. ...] final emancipation ([wrong reading] for nir-vāṇa ?), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) [v.s. ...] a road leading out of a town, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
7) [v.s. ...] the outer corner of an elephant’s eye, [Daśakumāra-carita; Śiśupāla-vadha] (cf. nir-ṇāyana)
8) [v.s. ...] a rope for tying cattle, a foot-rope
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryNiryāṇa (निर्याण):—[nir-yāṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Going out issue; travelling; final; the outer corner of an elephant’s eye; beatitude; tether for cattle.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Niryāṇa (निर्याण) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇijjāṇa.
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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 corpusNiryāṇa (ನಿರ್ಯಾಣ):—
1) [noun] a leaving from a place; a going away; departure.
2) [noun] a going out of sight; disappearance.
3) [noun] death; cessation of life.
4) [noun] a string for tying a cow’s legs while drawing milk from its udder.
5) [noun] the outer corner of an elephant’s eye.
6) [noun] liberation from the worldly life; emancipation.
7) [noun] a shifting of a camp (as of soldiers).
8) [noun] a way out (to go out of a town).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Starts with: Niryanadikshita, Niryanaghatta, Niryanahasta, Niryanahomdu, Niryanai, Niryanam.
Ends with: Abhiniryana, Aniryana, Shastraniryana, Viniryana.
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