In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: The University of Sydney: A study of the Twelve Reflections

Paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण) refers to the “roaming around (of living souls)”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “[com.—Next he speaks about the roaming around (paribhramaṇam) of living souls (jīvānāṃ) in moving beings and stationary objects (trasasthāvareṣu)]—Also all connections are obtained by all those possessing a body who have roamed about for time without a beginning in the wombs of mobile and immobile beings”.

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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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण).—n (S) Wandering, roaming, peregrination. 2 Revolving.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण).—n Wandering. Revolving.

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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 dictionary

Paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण).—

1) Going about, roaming, wandering.

2) Revolving, turning round.

3) Circumference.

Derivable forms: paribhramaṇam (परिभ्रमणम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण).—i. e. pari -bhram + ana, n. 1. Turning, revolving (as of wheels), [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 5, 8, 6. 2. Circumference.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण).—[neuter] moving round, circumference.

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Paribhrāmaṇa (परिभ्रामण).—[neuter] turning round ([transitive]).

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

1) Paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण):—[=pari-bhramaṇa] [from pari-bhram] n. turning round, revolving (as of wheels), [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] moving to and fro, going about, [Prasaṅgābharaṇa]

3) [v.s. ...] circumference, [Sūryasiddhānta]

4) Paribhrāmaṇa (परिभ्रामण):—[=pari-bhrāmaṇa] [from pari-bhram] n. ([from] [Causal]) turning to and fro, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Paribhramaṇa (परिभ्रमण) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Paribbhamaṇa.

[Sanskrit to German]

Paribhramana 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

Paribhramaṇa (ಪರಿಭ್ರಮಣ):—

1) [noun] a going to and fro or wondering about.

2) [noun] a vibratory movement.

3) [noun] a perceiving, imagining or conceiving wrongly; misunderstanding; misconception.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Bhramana, Pari.

Starts with: Parabhramanamgey, Paribhramana-gati.

Ends with: Karini-paribhramana.

Full-text: Paribhrama, Karini-paribhramana, Paribbhamana, Paribhramanem, Trasasthavara.

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