Sanyasa, Sanyāsa: 5 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Sanyāsa (सन्यास).—(SANNYĀSA) One of the four stages of Brahminical life. The four stages are Brahmacarya (Religious student), Gārhasthya (householder), Vānaprastha (Forest-dweller) and Sannyāsa (hermit or sage). (For further details see under Āśrama). Duties of a hermit. Manu has ordained that one should perform sannyāsa (renunciation) at the fourth stage of life renouncing every tie with the world. After becoming a hermit he should travel daily alone. He should enter villages only for food. He should have renounced wealth. He should not acquire any wealth. He should be a sage filled with knowledge. He should have a skull as the pot for taking alms. He should sleep under trees. He should wear poor cloth and should be solitary. He should consider everybody as equal. Having become a hermit he should not delight in death or life. (See full article at Story of Sanyāsa from the Puranic encyclopaedia by Vettam Mani)
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Gitashastra (science of music)
Sanyāsa (सन्यास) refers to one of the thirteen Jātis or “proper combination of two grāmas” (in Indian music), according to the Kallinātha’s commentary Kalānidhi on the Saṃgītaratnākara.—In the Nāṭyaśāstra, jātis are broadly divided into two types viz., śuddhā and vikṛtā. The Saṃgītaratnākara also agrees on it. But in the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, the reference about the types of jātis is not found. The Saṃgītaratnākara accepts thirteen kinds of characteristic features of jātis. For example: Sanyāsa, which is however not accepted by the Nāṭyaśāstra.
Sanyāsa (सन्यास) refers to one of the thirteen characteristics of Rāga (considered an offshoot of Jāti in Indian music).—In the section on jāti, Govinda Dīkṣita deals with śuddājātis, vikṛtajātis and saṃsargajājātis. He then starts explaining the thirteen aspects of rāga (rāgāṇām trayodaśa lakṣaṇam) [e.g., Sanyāsa] while commenting that these are applicable to the jātis as well as to rāgas (which are off-shoots of the jātis).
Gitashastra (गीतशास्त्र, gītaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science of Music (gita or samgita), which is traditionally divided in Vocal music, Instrumental music and Dance (under the jurisdiction of music). The different elements and technical terms are explained in a wide range of (often Sanskrit) literature.
Languages of India and abroad
Hindi dictionary
Sanyāsa (सन्यास):—(nm) see ['saṃnyāsa'].
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Kannada-English dictionary
Sanyāsa (ಸನ್ಯಾಸ):—
1) [noun] the act of leaving, giving up something completely or for ever; abandonment.
2) [noun] the stage in which a person renounces everything in the wordly life and is living a self-imposed poverty with regorous discipline and desireless life, for realising a higher spiritual stage.
3) [noun] a vow of abstaining from food.
4) [noun] a kind of disease.
5) [noun] a singing of a rāga in an elaborate and aesthetic manner.
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)
Starts with (+0): Sanyasam, Sanyasana, Sanyasanamgey, Sanyasanavidhana, Sanyasanavidhi, Sanyasavrajana.
Full-text (+0): Sanyasam, Shastrasanyasa, Sanyasavrajana, Sharasanyasa, Kapatasanyasa, Sanyasana, Durmukha, Qi jue qi, Coma, Varnashrama, Yoga, Medicine, Amnaya, Mundi, Adhya, Jati, Raga, Vishnudharmottarapurana, Yajnavalkya.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Jivanandana of Anandaraya Makhin (Study) (by G. D. Jayalakshmi)
Sannipātas (fevers due to Vāta, Pitta and Kapha) < [Chapter 4 - Āyurvedic principles in Jīvanandana Nāṭaka]
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 365 < [Hindi-English-Nepali (1 volume)]
Page 191 < [Hindi-Malayalam-English Volume 3]
Page 338 < [Hindi-Sindhi-English Volume 2]
Prashna Upanishad with Shankara’s Commentary (by S. Sitarama Sastri)
Verse 5.1 < [Prashna V - Meditation on the syllable ‘Om’]
Yogashikha Upanishad (critical study) (by Sujatarani Giri)
Part 5.1 - Concept of Jīvanmukti—Introduction < [Chapter 2 - Vedānta philosophy and Upaniṣadic ideas]
Part 5.2 - Means of the Attainment of Jīvanmukti < [Chapter 2 - Vedānta philosophy and Upaniṣadic ideas]