Parshni, Pārṣṇi: 15 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Pārṣṇi can be transliterated into English as Parsni or Parshni, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि) refers to “(using) one’s heels” (while driving an elephant), according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 12, “On the qualities of elephant drivers, etc.”]: “11. Inserting both his feet in the neck chain, with strokes of his firmly implanted toes and heels (pārṣṇi) [dṛḍhanihitāṅguṣṭhapārṣṇiprahāraiḥ], and with his thighs tightly binding, with firm mind, fixed securely like a post, the driver shall take a good hold of the hook in his right hand, and with the other hand likewise a staff of reed or the like, and with concentrated mind shall gently make the elephant go (by signs made with his feet)”.
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि):—[pārṣṇiḥ] Heel. Rounded posterior portion of the foot under and behind the ankle
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.
Shilpashastra (iconography)
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि) or “heel” refers to one of the various body parts whose Measurements should follow the principles of ancient Indian Painting (citra), according to the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, an ancient Sanskrit text which (being encyclopedic in nature) deals with a variety of cultural topics such as arts, architecture, music, grammar and astronomy.—In the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, a specific measurement of every limb of a man as well as of a woman is elaborately and systematically discussed. In this book, the writer has presented the measurement of almost all the body parts that should be maintained in a picture. For example, Pārṣṇi (“heel”) should be 4 X 3 aṅgulas.
Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि) refers to the “heel” of the Buddha, to which his rays (raśmi) might return after emission, according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XIV). According to the Avadānaśataka and Divyāvadāna, it is a custom that, at the moment when the Buddha Bhagavats show their smile, blue, yellow, red and white rays flash out of the Bhagavat’s mouth, some of which go up and some of which go down. Those that go down penetrate into the hells (naraka); those that go up penetrate to the gods from the Cāturmahārājikas up to the Akaniṣṭas. Having travelled through the trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu, the rays return to the Bhagavat from behind. According as to whether the Buddha wishes to show such-and-such a thing, the rays return to him by a different part of the body.
The returning of the rays into the heel (pārṣṇi) of the Buddha predicts a birth among the animals (tiryagupapatti).
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि).—m. f. [pṛṣ-ni ni° vṛddhiḥ; Uṇādi-sūtra 4.52]
1) The heel; Bhāgavata 7.8.31; उद्वेजयत्यङ्गुलिपार्ष्णिभागान् (udvejayatyaṅgulipārṣṇibhāgān) Kumārasambhava 1.11; पार्ष्णिप्रहार (pārṣṇiprahāra) K.119; प्रतनत्रिकपुच्छमूलपार्ष्णिम् (pratanatrikapucchamūlapārṣṇim) Bu. Ch.5.73.
2) The rear of an army.
3) The back or rear in general; शुद्धपार्ष्णिरयान्वितः (śuddhapārṣṇirayānvitaḥ) R.4.26 'with his rear cleared of foes.'
4) A kick.
5) Desire of conquering.
6) Inquiry. (-f.)
1) A licentious woman.
2) An epithet of Kuntī.
3) The extremity of the fore-axle of a four-horse chariot.
Derivable forms: pārṣṇiḥ (पार्ष्णिः).
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि).—mf.
(-rṣṇiḥ) 1. The heel. 2. The rear of an army. 3. The back. 4. Enquiry, asking. 5. A kick. f.
(-rṣṇiḥ) 1. A violent or licentious woman, one intoxicated literally or figuralively, &c. 2. A name of Kunti the mother of Yud'Hist'Hira. E. pṛṣ to sprinkle, &c. Unadi aff. ni.
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि).—m. and f., and pārṣṇī pārṣṇī ([Pañcatantra] 200, 3), f. 1. The heel, Mahābhārata 7, 3179. 2. The rear of an army, the back, [Raghuvaṃśa, (ed. Stenzler.)] 4, 26. 3. The extremities of the axletree to which are fastened the two outer horses of a carriage drawn by four horses in one line, Mahābhārata 4, 1415.
— Cf. [Gothic.] fairzna; [Old High German.] fersna; [Anglo-Saxon.] fiersna; [Latin] compernes, pernix;
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि).—[feminine] the heel, [figuratively] = back; [accusative] [with] grah attack from behind.
1) Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि):—f. ([cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] also m.; rarely f(pārṣṇī). ; [from] √pṛṣ ? cf. [Uṇādi-sūtra iv, 52 [Scholiast or Commentator]]) the heel, [Ṛg-veda] etc. etc.
2) the extremity of the fore-axle to which the outside horses of a four-horse chariot are attached (the two inner horses being harnessed to the dhur, or chariot-pole), [Mahābhārata]
3) the rear of an army (ṇim √grah with [genitive case], to attack in the rear), [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa; Kāvya literature]
4) the back, [Horace H. Wilson]
5) a kick, [ib.]
6) enquiry, asking, [ib.]
7) a foolish or licentious woman, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
8) Name of a plant (= kuntī or kumbhī), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि):—(rṣṇiḥ) 2. m. f. The heel; rear of an army; the back; a kick; asking. f. Violent woman; Kuntī.
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि):—( [Uṇādisūtra 4, 52]) m. (nach den Lexicographen) und f., seltener pārṣṇī .
1) Ferse [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 2, 23.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 134.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 616.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 148.] [Medinīkoṣa ṇ. 20.] [Ṛgveda 1, 162, 17. 10, 163, 4.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6, 24, 2.] pārṣṇyā.prapadena ca [42, 3. 8, 6, 15. 17. 10, 2, 1.] [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 1, 1. 4, 4.] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 42.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 4, 2.] [LĀṬY. 1, 9, 11.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 213. 3, 86.] kaśāpārṣṇyabhighātaiḥ [Mahābhārata 7, 3179. 3181.] [Harivaṃśa 6405.] [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 98, 24.] [Suśruta 1, 125, 15. 256, 6. 339, 7. 2, 107, 21.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 1, 11.] [Mālavikāgnimitra 85.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 49, 15. 50, 9. 40. 60, 14. 67, 2.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 92.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 2, 1, 26. 7, 8, 31.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 39, 30. 43, 7.] [Pañcatantra 200, 3] (ṣārṣṇī). —
2) das äusserste Ende der Vorderachse, an welchem die Seitenpferde eines mit 4 Pferden bespannten Wagens ziehen (die beiden Mittelpferde ziehen an der dhur, der Deichsel): vāmā, dakṣiṇā [Mahābhārata 3, 13309] (im vorangehenden Śloka statt dessen pārśva). [4, 1415. fg.] pārṣṇisārathī heissen die zwei Wagenlenker, die die Seitenpferde lenken (die beiden Deichselpferde, dhuryau, lenkt ein dritter Wagenlenker), [1, 5490. 4, 1074. 5, 5256. 6, 3718.] Vgl. pārṣṇivāh . —
3) die (der) vom Feinde bedrohte Ferse (Rücken): sa guptamūlapratyantaḥ śuddhapārṣṇirayānvitaḥ . ṣaḍvidhaṃ balamādāya pratasthe digjigīṣayā [Raghuvaṃśa 4, 26.] viśuddha [KĀM. NĪTIS. 11, 74.] Hierher wohl auch [Mahābhārata 2, 192.] uśanāstasya jagrāha pārṣṇim fiel ihm in den Rücken [Harivaṃśa 1342]; vgl. pārṣṇigraha, grahaṇa, grāha. pārṣṇi m. f. = camūpṛṣṭha (so ist zu lesen) das Hintertreffen [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] = sainyapṛṣṭha [Medinīkoṣa] [Ratnakoṣa im Śabdakalpadruma] = vyūhapṛṣṭha [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] = pratyāsāra [Halāyudha 5, 41.] = raṇasya paścimo bhāgaḥ [Halāyudha] = jigīṣā [Ratnakoṣa] —
4) f. = unmadastrī ein tolles, ausgelassenes Weib [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] —
5) = kumbhī (vgl. pānīyapṛṣṭhajā) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] statt dessen kuntī [Dharaṇīkoṣa im Śabdakalpadruma]
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Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि):—
1) tīvrapārṣṇiprahāreṇa prerayāmāsa vājinam [Kathāsaritsāgara 94, 12.] ghāta 13. pārṣṇyāpīḍya gudam [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 11, 15, 24.] —
3) śuddha [Weber’s Indische Studien 10, 165.]
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि):—(*m.) f. —
1) Ferse. personificirt [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtra 2,17,15.Auch] pārṣṇī. —
2) das äusserste Ende der Vorderachse , an welchem die Seitenpferde eines mit vier Pferden bespannten Wagens ziehen. vāma (adj. Comp.) m. das linke Seitenpferd [Mahābhārata 3,98,8.] —
3) die (der) vom Feinde bedrohte Ferse (Rücken) pārṣṇiṃ grah Jmd (Gen.) in den Rücken fallen. —
4) *ein ausgelassenes Weib. —
5) *eine best. Pflanze. = kumbhī oder kuntī.
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Paṇhi.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Pārṣṇi (पार्ष्णि):—(nf) a rear guard (of an army).
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Kannada-English dictionary
Pārṣṇi (ಪಾರ್ಷ್ಣಿ):—
1) [noun] the back part of the human foot, under the ankle and behind the instep; the heal.
2) [noun] a division of an army that follows behind the main division.
3) [noun] the rear portion of anything.
4) [noun] a seizing, capturing from behind.
5) [noun] he who seizes, captures from behind.
6) [noun] the extremity of the fore-axle of a chariot.
7) [noun] a kicking or treading on.
8) [noun] a desire for success or victory.
9) [noun] an investigation or examination; an inqury.
10) [noun] a sexually unrestrained, lascivious woman.
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 (+2): Parshniga, Parshnighata, Parshnigraha, Parshnigrahana, Parshnikshema, Parshniksheman, Parshnila, Parshniprahara, Parshnirecita, Parshnirecita, Parshnisamasta, Parshnisarathi, Parshnitra, Parshnivah, Parshnivaha, Parshnivigraha, Parshniyantri, Parshniyugma, Pashrnigamana, Pashrnigrahaka.
Full-text (+30): Parshnigraha, Parshnitra, Parshnisarathi, Vyuhaparshni, Parshnigrahana, Parshnighata, Parshnivaha, Parshnivah, Shuddhaparshni, Parshniprahara, Parshniksheman, Aparshni, Parshnivigraha, Parishuddhaparshni, Ayatapadaparshni, Parshniyantri, Parshnila, Pashrnigamana, Pashrnigrahaka, Parshniga.
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