Svapnadhyaya, Svapnādhyāya, Svapna-adhyaya: 5 definitions
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Svapnadhyaya means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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
Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)
Source: eScholarship: The descent of scripture: a history of the KamikagamaSvapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय) refers to the “method of dream interpretation”, according to the Kāmikāgama: an ancient Śaiva Āgama scripture in 12,000 Sanskrit verses dating to at least the 5th century and represented as an encyclopedic account of ritual instructions (kriyāpāda).—In modern print editions, the Kāmika-āgama is structured in two major parts. The Uttarabhāga consists of 98 chapters (paṭalas) [...] Chapter 22 presents a method of dream interpretation (svapnādhyāya), typically performed before initiation is to take place. Chapters 23 and 24 describe the rite of liberating initiation and the consecration of a master.
Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.
In Buddhism
General definition (in Buddhism)
Source: History of Science in South Asia: Three Versions of Crow OmensSvapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय) refers to “oneiromancy” (dream divination), according to the Divyāvidāna.—The Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna is the thirty-third book in the collection of Buddhist legends called the Divyāvidāna that was likely redacted from stories in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya and compiled in the first or second century CE in the north-west region of the Indian subcontinent. A unique feature of this collection is its presentation of an early form of the knowledge system of Jyotiḥśāstra or Astral Science that focuses on divination through astrology. Sometime after 864 CE, the text underwent further redaction, when sections were added that dealt with other types of divination that included, among others, palmistry, physiognomy, and oneiromancy (svapnādhyāya). It is in this later part that the three collections of animal omens are found.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySvapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय).—(in Sanskrit as name of a work; buf compare also °ya-vid, Traumdeuter, Śaṃkara, [Boehtlingk]), the interpretation (‘reading’) of dreams, in a list of arts learned by the Bo- dhisattva: °ye Lalitavistara 156.17.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Svapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—the 68th Pariśiṣṭa of the Av. W. p. 94.
2) Svapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय):—a short chapter on dreams and their result, often attributed to Bṛhaspati. Io. 890. W. p. 269. 356. Oxf. 346^b. L. 1121. K. 246. B. 4, 212. Bik. 341. Pheh. 8. Np. Vii, 30. Bhr. 762. H. 339. Taylor. 1, 277.
—from the Bhavishyottarapurāṇa. Peters. 2, 197.
—from the Skandapurāṇa. Pet. 723.
—by Kavīndra Hari. Hall. Preface to Vāsavadattā p. 30.
—by Tryambaka. Oppert. 3705. Ii, 2204.
3) Svapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय):—a short chapter on dreams and their result. Io. 890. 1057. Peters. 4, 38. Stein 177.
4) Svapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय):—Pariś. 68 of the Av. Tb. 214.
—often attributed to Bṛhaspati. L.. 1176-1178. 1180, 1. Tod 51.
—assigned to the Brahmavaivartapurāṇa. L.. 1179. Peters. 5, 129.
Svapnādhyāya (स्वप्नाध्याय):—[from svapna > svap] m. ‘dr°-chapter’, Name of the 68th Pariśiṣṭa of the Atharva-veda and other works.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Svapna, Adhyaya.
Starts with: Svapnadhyayavid.
Full-text: Svapnadhyayavid, Hari kavindra, Kavindrahari, Brihaspati, Bhavishyottarapurana, Skandapurana.
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