Satmya, Sātmya: 9 definitions

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Satmya means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit. 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.

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Google Books: Essentials of Ayurveda

Sātmya (सात्म्य, “suitability”):—Whatever is wholesome to oneself is known as sātmya (suitable). This also is classified int three degrees—superior, average and inferior. It is superior when all the rasas are suitable and is inferoir if only one of them is as such. The average follows them iddle course. One should use the substances keeping in mind the suitability of the same.

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

1) Sātmya (सात्म्य):—Agreeable to natural constitution, wholesome, suitableness, habituation

2) Daily activities and food which have become habitual to body. Homologation / habituation.

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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.

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In Jainism

Jain philosophy

Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra Suri

Sātmya (सात्म्य) refers to “that whereby an individual experiences happiness (even when food, drink etc are opposed to his or her nature)”, as used in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. P. 1, L 17]

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Sātmya (सात्म्य).—a. Wholesome, agreeable to nature.

-tmyaḥ 1 Suitablenes.

2) Habit, habitation, diet.

-tmyam = सरूपता (sarūpatā) q. v.; नृपाश्चैद्यादयः सात्म्यं हरेस्तच्चिन्तया ययुः (nṛpāścaidyādayaḥ sātmyaṃ harestaccintayā yayuḥ) Bhāg. 7.1.4.

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

Sātmya (सात्म्य).—[neuter] = sātmatā.

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

1) Sātmya (सात्म्य):—[from sātma] mfn. agreeable to nature or natural constitution, wholesome, [Suśruta; Caraka]

2) [v.s. ...] m. suitableness, wholesomeness, [ib.]

3) [v.s. ...] m. habit, habituation, diet (tas ind. ‘from habit’; ifc. = ‘used to’), [ib.]

4) [v.s. ...] m. community of essence or nature with ([instrumental case] or [genitive case]), [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

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

Sātmya (सात्म्य):—(tmyaṃ) 1. n. Equality with.

[Sanskrit to German]

Satmya 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.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Sātmya (ಸಾತ್ಮ್ಯ):—[adjective] adjusting to the natural, intrinsic, innate quality or qualities.

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Sātmya (ಸಾತ್ಮ್ಯ):—

1) [noun] appropriateness to the purpose or circumstances; suitability; propriety.

2) [noun] the quality of a drug, medicine, food, etc. that is agreeable to all types of bodily constitution.

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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.

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