Saudamani, Saudāmanī, Saudāmani: 13 definitions
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Saudamani means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Saudāmani (सौदामनि).—The lightning of the sky, a daughter of Vinatā.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 6. 34.
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.
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी) is the name of an Apsaras mentioned by Bodhisattva Gotama to Chandaka in the Mahavāstu vol 1 chapter XVI.—Accordingly, “Can it be that Māyā the queen, beautiful as Saudāmanī, although, it is true, she has kept vigil a long time, is now lying down in carefree joy like a Sura’s wife in a fair city of the Suras, at the moment when he who is the boon of men is leaving home?”.
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
Marathi-English dictionary
saudāmanī (सौदामनी).—& saudāminī f (S) Lightning.
saudāmanī (सौदामनी) [-minī, -मिनी].—f Lightning.
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
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी).—
1) Lightning; सौदामन्या कनकनिकषस्निग्धया दर्शयोर्वीम् (saudāmanyā kanakanikaṣasnigdhayā darśayorvīm) Meghadūta 39; सौदामिनीव जलदोदरसंधिलीना (saudāminīva jaladodarasaṃdhilīnā) Mṛcchakaṭika 1.35; Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 8.14.
2) The female of Indra's elephant.
3) A kind of lightning (forked one); काञ्चनाभं नभश्चक्रे विद्युत्सौदामिनी यथा (kāñcanābhaṃ nabhaścakre vidyutsaudāminī yathā) Rām.7.32.56; Bhāgavata 1.6.28.
See also (synonyms): saudāminī, saudāmnī.
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी).—f. (-nī) 1. Lightning. 2. A courtezan of Indra'S heaven. 3. Part of the Sudaman mountain. E. See the next.
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी).—and saudā- minī saudāminī, i. e. sudāman + a (in saudāminī, a is irregularly changed to i, as in sairindhra), f. 1. Lightning, [Daśakumāracarita] in
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी).—(±vidyut) [feminine] lightning; [Name] of [several] women.
1) Saudāmanī (सौदामनी):—f. ([from] su-dāman, ‘Indra’ or ‘a cloud’) lightning or a [particular] kind of l°
2) perhaps forked l° (vidyut saudāmanī yathā, ‘after the manner of f° l°’), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.
3) Name of a daughter of Kaśyapa and Vinatā, [Viṣṇu-purāṇa]
4) of a Yakṣiṇī, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
5) of a daughter of the Gandharva Hāhā, [ib.]
6) of an Apsaras, [Bālarāmāyaṇa]
7) of a sorceress, [Mālatīmādhava]
8) of part of the Su-dāman mountain ([according to] to some).
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी):—(nī) 3. f. Lightning; a celestial courtezan; part of the Sudāman mountain.
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी):—f. = sudāmnādriṇaikadṛk [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 112, Scholiast]
1) Blitz [Amarakoṣa.1,1,2,11.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1105.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha.4,205.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 226.] [Halāyudha.1,60.] [Mahābhārata.1,6557.3,10088. 14,269.] [Harivaṃśa 8346.] [Rāmāyaṇa.3,58,19. 21.6,80,24.] [Mṛcchakaṭikā 15,1.] [Ṛtusaṃhāra.3,12.] [Meghadūta 38.] [Spr. (II) 785. 4633.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 116,33.] [Daśakumāracarita 91,10.] [Oxforder Handschriften 260,b,1 v. u.] häufig ist die Verbindung vidyutsaudāmanī yathā am Ende eines Śloka, z. B. [Mahābhārata 3, 2083. 8561.] [Rāmāyaṇa ed. Bomb. 3, 52, 14. 7, 32, 56.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 6, 28. 8, 8, 8. 10, 49, 27.] nach [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] und [Medinīkoṣa] auch eine bes. Art von Blitz. —
2) Nomen proprium a) verschiedener Personen [MĀLATĪM. 144, 2. fgg.] eine Yakṣiṇī [Kathāsaritsāgara 73, 27. 31.] eine Tochter des Gandharva Hāhā [45, 350.] eine Apsaras [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] — b) einer Gegend Ajaya im [Śabdakalpadruma] — c) Titel eines Commentars zum Meghadūta [Meghadūta ed. Stenzler v.] — Häufig (aber nur ganz ausnahmsweise in den Bomb. Ausgg.) ungenau saudāminī geschrieben.
Saudāmanī (सौदामनी) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Soāmaṇī, Soāmiṇī.
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
Saudāmani (ಸೌದಾಮನಿ):—[noun] a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds or between a cloud and the ground; lightning.
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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