Rajadhani, Raja-dhani, Rājadhāni, Rājādhānī, Rajan-dhani: 19 definitions

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In Buddhism
1. Mahayana
India history
Languages
1. Pali
2. Marathi
3. Sanskrit
4. Hindi
5. Kannada
6. Nepali
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Introduction:

Rajadhani means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Hindi. 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.

Alternative spellings of this word include Rajdhani.

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In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Rājadhānī (राजधानी) refers to “capitals”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “[...] Save for those who were sitting in the pavilion in the sky, the rest of them in the great three-thousand of worlds, staying on the surface of the earth, as far as its foundations, thought that they disappeared. The king of the mountain (parvatarāja), Mount Sumeru, Mount Cakravāḍa, and Mount Mahācakravāḍa disappeared from the sight of living beings. Villages, towns, market-towns, royal cities, capitals (rājadhānī) disappeared as well. However, with the lion’s throne (simhāsana) of the Lord it was another matter, they perceived it as shining ten thousand yojanas high as placed in these pavilions placed in the vault of the sky”.

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (mahayana)

Rājadhānī (राजधानी) refers to the “royal residence” (which should be cleaned and purified), according to the Mahāsāhasrapramardanasūtra.—The setting of this long and complex scripture is Rājagṛha, where the Buddha and the Four Great Kings offer protection from calamities following an earthquake in Vaiśālī. Towards the end, this Sūtra provides detailed instructions for several rituals, including one for the protection of the state. This prescribes that the royal residence (rājadhānī) should be cleaned and purified with flowers, incense and other offerings. Four maidens should be placed in the four directions with swords in their hands. The dhāraṇī should be recited and written on strips of cloth, mounted on the top of Caityas, trees and banners. Recitation should continue for a fortnight, thus saving the state.

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Rājadhānī (राजधानी) refers to a “capital (city)”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, “Then the Bhagavān reached the vicinity of the residence of Vaiśravaṇa. In that region there was a choicest forest called Viṣavaka. There was a lotus lake in the middle of an opening of the forest. By the power of that lotus lake the fields, gardens, forests, groves, flowers and fruits in the capital (rājadhānī) of Aḍakavatī became refreshed [...]”.

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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.

India history and geography

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Rājadhānī.—(EI 23), the capital; sometimes used to indicate the headquarters of a chief or governor. Note: rājadhānī is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

Source: OpenEdition books: Vividhatīrthakalpaḥ (History)

Rājadhānī (राजधानी) refers to one of the quarter-divisions of Vārāṇasī, as is mentioned in the Vividhatīrthakalpa by Jinaprabhasūri (13th century A.D.): an ancient text devoted to various Jaina holy places (tīrthas).—Division into quarters 262 [(38) 74.20-23], § 13: Deva-Vārāṇasī, Madana-Vārāṇasī, Rājadhānī-Vārāṇasī; Vijaya-Vārāṇasī.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

rājadhāni : (f.) the royal city.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Rājādhānī refers to: a royal city (usually combined with gāma & nigama) A. I, 159; II, 33; III, 108; Vin. III, 89; J. V, 453; Pv 13¹⁸.

Note: rājādhānī is a Pali compound consisting of the words rājā and dhānī.

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

rājadhānī (ရာဇဓာနီ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[rāja+dhānī=(dhā+yu+ī) rājūnaṃ vasanaṭhānanti rājadhānī．apa,ṭṭha,2．2va1．dhīyate assanti dhānī,dhā+yu+ī．raññaṃ dhānī rājadhānī．kappadduma．rājadhānī-saṃ．rāyadhāṇī-prā,addhamāgamī．]
[ရာဇ+ဓာနီ=(ဓာ+ယု+ဤ) ရာဇူနံ ဝသနဌာနန္တိ ရာဇဓာနီ။ အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၂ဝ၁။ ဓီယတေ အဿန္တိ ဓာနီ၊ဓာ+ယု+ဤ။ ရညံ ဓာနီ ရာဇဓာနီ။ ကပ္ပဒ္ဒုမ။ ရာဇဓာနီ-သံ။ ရာယဓာဏီ-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂမီ။]

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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.

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

rājadhānī (राजधानी).—f (S) rājanagarī f (S) The city in which the king resides, the royal city, or the metropolis.

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

rājadhānī (राजधानी) [-nagarī, -नगरी].—f The metropolis.

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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

Rājadhānī (राजधानी).—the king's residence, the capital, metropolis, the seat of government; तौ दम्पती स्वां प्रति राजधानीं (tau dampatī svāṃ prati rājadhānīṃ) (prasthāpayāmāsa) R.2.7.

Rājadhānī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms rājan and dhānī (धानी). See also (synonyms): rājadhāna, rājadhānaka, rājadhānikā.

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

Rājadhānī (राजधानी).—[feminine] a king’s residence; [ablative] tas.

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

Rājadhānī (राजधानी):—[=rāja-dhānī] [from rāja > rāj] f. idem, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.

[Sanskrit to German]

Rajadhani 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Rājadhānī (राजधानी) [Also spelled rajdhani]:—(nf) a capital, metropolis; —[paraṣid] metropolitan council.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Rājadhāni (ರಾಜಧಾನಿ):—[noun] a city or town that is the official seat of government of a state, nation, etc.; a capital.

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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.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Rājadhānī (राजधानी):—n. capital; metropolis; capital city;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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