Taikshnya, Taikṣṇya: 10 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Taikṣṇya can be transliterated into English as Taiksnya or Taikshnya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य):—Pungent
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य).—n Pungency or acritude. Fig. Vehemence or fierceness (of heat or temper); acuteness (of understand- ing); severity or sharpness (of speech).
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
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य).—
1) Sharpness (of a knife), acuteness.
2) Pungency.
3) Fierceness, severity, cruelty.
Derivable forms: taikṣṇyam (तैक्ष्ण्यम्).
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य).—n.
(-kṣṇyaṃ) 1. Sharpness. 2. Heat. 3. Pungency. 4. Fierceness, cruelty. E. tīkṣṇa, and ṣyañ aff.
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य).—i. e. tīkṣṇa + ya, n. 1. Sharpness, [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] 32, 5, v. r. 2. Severity, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 4, 163.
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य).—[neuter] sharpness, pungency, harshness, severity.
1) Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य):—[from taikṣṇāyana] n. sharpness (of a knife), [Suśruta i, 5]
2) [v.s. ...] pungency (of drugs), [i, iii f.; Rāmāyaṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] fierceness, severity, [Manu-smṛti iv, 163; Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa; Sāhitya-darpaṇa]
4) [v.s. ...] pain, [Priyadarśikā i, 4/5].
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य):—(kṣṇyaṃ) 1. n. Sharpness; heat.
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य):—(von tīkṣṇa) n. Schärfe (des Messers u. s. w.): śastra [Suśruta 1, 15, 14.] śara [Śākuntala 32, 5, v. l.] von Stoffen u. s. w. [Suśruta 1, 149, 1. 154, 12. 191, 20. 192, 20. 313, 5. 2, 235, 3.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 38, 20 (Gorresio 39, 19).] scharfes, rauhes Wesen, Strenge [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 4, 163] [?(= Mahābhārata 13, 4990). Mahābhārata 12, 4355. Rāmāyaṇa 2, 21, 43.] pratikūleṣu taikṣṇyasyāvabodhaḥ krodha iṣyate [Sāhityadarpana 75, 22.] taikṣṇa (sic) im Gegens. zu mārdava [Mahābhārata 5, 68.]
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Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य):—, taikṣṇyaṃ kṛpāṇe yasyābhūnna daṇḍe nayaśālinaḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 53, 87. Z. 5] tīkṣṇaṃ st. taikṣṇaṃ [Mahābhārata 5, 68 ed. Bomb.]
Taikṣṇya (तैक्ष्ण्य):—n. —
1) Schärfe [Indische sprüche 7627.] —
2) Schärfe , brennender Geschmack. —
3) scharfes , rauhes Wesen , Strenge. —
4) Qual [Priyadarśikā 5,20] ( taikṣṇyamava zu lesen).
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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