Tanti, Tāṃtī, Tamti, Tāṇṭi, Taṇṭi: 19 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English TranslationTanti (तन्ति) refers to a “series (of cows)”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.49 (“The delusion of Brahmā”).—Accordingly, as Brahmā narrated to Nārada: “[...] O great God, O lord of gods, the ocean of mercy, you are the creator, the sustainer and the annihilator of everything. It is at your will that the entire world including the mobile and immobile is kept checked as the bulls amongst a series (tanti) of cows. After saying so I bowed to Him with palms joined in reverence. Viṣṇu and others too eulogised lord Śiva. On hearing the piteous eulogies made by me as well as by Viṣṇu and others lord Śiva became delighted. He granted me the boon of fearlessness delightedly. All were happy, O sage, and I rejoiced much”.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index1a) Tanti (तन्ति).—A son of Nandana.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 46. 27.
1b) A Dhūmra Parāśara.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 201. 38.
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.
India history and geography
Source: Wisdom Library: Teachers, Saints and SagesTanti (तन्ति) is another name for Tantipā: one of the eighty-four Siddhas (Siddhācāryas) of the Sahajayāna school, according to sources such as the Varṇaratnākara of Jyotirīśvara (i.e., the Varna-Ratnakara by Jyotirishwar Thakur).—The Sahaja-Yana is a philosophical and esoteric movement of Tantric Buddhism which had enormous influence in the Indian subcontinent and the Himalayas.—Many of these Mahāsiddhas [e.g., Tanti-pā] were historical figures whose lives and mystical powers were the subject of legends. They are often associated with teachings belonging to Hinduism, Buddhism, Ajivikism and Jainism such as the Nath Tradition.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Tanti in India is the name of a plant defined with Crotalaria verrucosa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Phaseolus bulai Blanco (among others).
2) Tanti is also identified with Croton tiglium It has the synonym Oxydectes pavanae Kuntze (etc.).
3) Tanti is also identified with Merremia turpethum It has the synonym Convolvulus turpethus L. (etc.).
4) Tanti in Sri Lanka is also identified with Terminalia bellirica It has the synonym Myrobalanus laurinoides (Teijsm. & Binn.) Kuntze (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Florae Fluminensis Icones (1831)
· Wuyi Science Journal (1982)
· Hortus Mauritianus (1837)
· FBI (1887)
· A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon (1931)
· Botanical Gazette (1907)
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Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarytanti : (f.) a cord of lute; a secret text.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryTanti, (f.) (Vedic tantrī, see tanta) 1. the string or cord of a lute, etc.; thread made of tendon Vin. I, 182; Th. 2, 390 (cp. ThA. 257); J. IV, 389; DhA. I, 163; PvA. 151.—2. line, lineage (+paveṇi custom, tradition) J. VI, 380; DhA. I, 284. —dhara bearer of tradition Vism. 99 (+vaṃsânurakkhake & paveṇipolake).—3. a sacred text; a passage in the Scriptures Vism. 351 (bahu-peyyāla°); avimutta-tanti-magga DA. I, 2; MA. I, 2.
[Pali to Burmese]
Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)tanti—
(Burmese text): (၁) အစဉ်။ (က) ပါဠိတော်၊ ပိဋက ၃-ပုံ (ဘုရားစကားတော်အစဉ်)။ (ခ) အဋ္ဌကထာ (အဖွင့်စကားအစဉ်)။ (ဂ) ဋီကာ (အဖွင့်စကားအစဉ်)။ (ဃ) ကျင့်စဉ်။ (င) ဟောစဉ်၊ ဒေသနာစဉ်။ (စ) ဆရာစဉ်။ တန္တိသန္နိဿယ-လည်းကြည့်။ (ဆ) အနွယ်စဉ်။ တန္တိဓာရက,တန္တိပဝေဏီဃဋနက-တို့လည်းကြည့်။ (ဇ) သူတော်ကောင်းတရားအစဉ်။ တန္တိပါလက-ကြည့်။ (ဈ) သား,မြေးအစဉ်။ (ည) အာဂုံပါဠိ။ (ဋ) ကျမ်းဂန် (စကားဝါကျအစဉ်)။ (ဌ) သင်စဉ်။ (ဍ) ပို့ချစဉ်။ တန္တိမဂ္ဂ-ကြည့်။ (ဎ) ဂုဏ်-ကောင်းမှု-အစဉ်။ (၂) ကြိုး။ (က) စောင်းကြိုး၊ စောင်းညှို့။ တန္တိသဒ္ဒ,တန္တိဿရ-တို့လည်းကြည့်။ (ခ) စည်ကြိုး။ (၃) အကြော။ (၄) လုံ့လ၊ ကြောင့်ကြ၊ ဗျာပါရ။ တန္တိဗဒ္ဓ,တန္တိဗန္ဓ-တို့လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Sequence. (a) Pali Text, Pidaka 3-Forms (the sequence of the Buddha's words). (b) Atthakatha (the opening word sequence). (c) Dhika (the opening word sequence). (d) Practice. (e) Sermon, discourse sequence. (f) Teacher sequence. Also see Tanthitha Nidhaya. (g) Ancestor sequence. Also see Tanthidhara, Tanthipawena. (h) Noble good deeds sequence. Also see Tanthipalakkha. (i) Sons, grandsons sequence. (j) Agon Pali. (k) Khanda Gun (the word phrase sequence). (l) Teaching sequence. (m) Sending sequence. Also see Tanthimagga. (n) Praise - good deeds - sequence. (2) Rope. (a) Sown rope, sown thread. Also see Tanthidha, Tanthidhara. (b) Thread rope. (3) Knot. (4) Loun (the last), Kyan Kyaung, Viyaparaya. Also see Tanthibadda, Tanthibandha.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryTanti (तन्ति).—f. [tan-karmaṇi ktic]
1) A cord, line, string; सासज्जत शिचस्तन्त्यां महिषी कालयन्त्रिता (sāsajjata śicastantyāṃ mahiṣī kālayantritā) Bhāgavata 7.2.52.
2) A row, series, (Mar. dāvaṇa); वत्सानां न तन्तयस्त इन्द्र (vatsānāṃ na tantayasta indra) Ṛgveda 6.24.4; यथा गावो नसि प्रोतास्तन्त्र्यां बद्धाः स्वदामभिः (yathā gāvo nasi protāstantryāṃ baddhāḥ svadāmabhiḥ) Bhāgavata 1.13.42.
3) Extension, expansion.
4) A cow.
5) A weaver.
Derivable forms: tantiḥ (तन्तिः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryTanti (तन्ति).—m.
(-ntiḥ) A weaver. f.
(-ntiḥ) Expantion, extension. E. tan to stretch, affix ktic.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryTanti (तन्ति).—[feminine] cord, rope, line.
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Tantī (तन्ती).—[feminine] cord, rope, line.
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Tānti (तान्ति).—[feminine] choking, suffocation.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Tanti (तन्ति):—[from tan] a f. ([Pāṇini 6-4, 39; Kāśikā-vṛtti on iii, 3, 174 and vii, 2, 9]) a cord, line, string ([especially] a long line to which a series of calves are fastened by smaller cords), [Ṛg-veda vi, 24, 4; Bhāgavata-purāṇa [Scholiast or Commentator] on Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa] xiii and, [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra xx] (ifc.)
2) [v.s. ...] (ntī), [Gobhila-śrāddha-kalpa iii, 6, 7 and 9]
3) [v.s. ...] extension, [Horace H. Wilson]
4) [v.s. ...] m. a weaver, [Horace H. Wilson]
5) [v.s. ...] cf. 2. tati.
6) Tantī (तन्ती):—[from tan] f. = ti q.v.
7) [v.s. ...] See also vatsa-.
8) Tanti (तन्ति):—b tī, tantu, etc. See [column]1.
9) Tānti (तान्ति):—[from tānta] f. suffocation, [Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra xii, 11, 8/9.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryTanti (तन्ति):—(ntiḥ) 1. m. A weaver.
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryTaṃtī (तंती) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Tantrī.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusTaṃti (ತಂತಿ):—
1) [noun] a slender, string-like piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usu. circular in section, of different diameters; a wire.
2) [noun] a slender cord of wire stretched on a musical instrument and bowed, plucked or struck to make a musical sound; a string.
3) [noun] a message transmitted by telegraph; telegram.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Tamil dictionary
Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil LexiconTaṇṭi (தண்டி) noun < தண்டு-. [thandu-.] Collector of dues, tax-collector; தண்டற்காரன். [thandarkaran.] (J.)
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Taṇṭi (தண்டி) [taṇṭittal] 11 transitive verb < daṇḍ.
1. To chastise, scourge, punish; ஒறுத்தல். நயனங் கள் மூன்றுடைய நாயகனே தண்டித்தால் [oruthal. nayanang kal munrudaiya nayagane thandithal] (திருவாசகம் [thiruvasagam] 12, 4).
2. To cut off, sever, mutilate, hack; வெட்டுதல். [vettuthal.] (W.) தாளறத் தண்டித்த தண்டியலங்காரம் [thalarath thanditha thandiyalangaram] (சிவரகசியம் பாயி. [sivaragasiyam payi.] 7).
3. To order, direct; கட்டளையிடுதல். அவனை அவ்விதஞ் செய்யத் தண்டித்தேன். [kattalaiyiduthal. avanai avvithagn seyyath thandithen.] Local usage — intransitive To take pains, try hard; வருந்திமுயலு தல். இதிலே நன்றாய்த் தண்டிக்கிறான். [varunthimuyalu thal. ithile nanrayth thandikkiran.] (J.)
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Taṇṭi (தண்டி) noun < தடி². [thadi².]
1. Thickness, bigness; பருமன். எத்தனை தண்டியலங்காரம் [paruman. ethanai thandiyalangaram] (W.)
2. Abundance, plenty; மிகுதி. மழை தண்டியாய்ப் பெய்தது. [miguthi. mazhai thandiyayp peythathu.] Colloq.
3. Degree of competence, quality, etc., of persons or things compared with each other; தரம். அவன் தண்டிக்கு இவனில்லை. [tharam. avan thandikku ivanillai.] (W.)
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Taṇṭi (தண்டி) [taṇṭittal] 11 intransitive verb < தண்டி³. [thandi³.] To become fat, plump; to swell in size; பருத் தல். ஆள் தண்டித்துவிட்டான். [paruth thal. al thandithuvittan.]
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Taṇṭi (தண்டி) noun < Daṇḍin.
1. Author of Taṇṭi-y-alaṅkāram, a work on rhetoric, translated from Sanskrit into Tamil; தண்டியலங்காரத் தைத் தமிழிற்செய்த ஓராசிரியர். [thandiyalangarath thaith thamizhirseytha orasiriyar.]
2. A canonised Śaiva saint, one of 63; நாயன்மார் அறுபத்துமூவருள் ஒருவர். நாட்டமிகுதண்டிக்கு மூர்க்கற்கு மடியேன் [nayanmar arupathumuvarul oruvar. nattamiguthandikku murkkarku madiyen] (தேவாரம் [thevaram] 737, 5).
3. Yama; யமன். தண்டியலங்காரம் நன்காஞ் சுகர் வினை செய்ய [yaman. thandiyalangaram nankagn sugar vinai seyya] (திருவிளையாடற் புராணம் திருமண. [thiruvilaiyadar puranam thirumana.] 108).
4. Proud person; கருவமுள்ளவ-ன்-ள். தன்சொல்லே மேற்படுப்பான் தண்டிதடி பிணக்கன் [karuvamullava-n-l. thansolle merpaduppan thandithadi pinakkan] (அறநெறிச்சாரம் [aranericharam] 5).
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Taṇṭi (தண்டி) noun Caṇṭēcurar, a canonised Śaiva saint; சண்டேசுரர். அண்ணலந் தண்டித னடிகள் போற்றுவாம் [sandesurar. annalan thanditha nadigal porruvam] (தணிகைப்புராணம் கடவுள்வா. [thanigaippuranam kadavulva.] 9).
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Taṇṭi (தண்டி) noun < Marathi daṇḍī. A kind of metrical composition in eight lines, the last containing the burden of the song; எட்டடியுள்ள இசைப்பாட்டுவகை. [ettadiyulla isaippattuvagai.]
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Tanti (தந்தி) noun < dantin.
1. Male elephant; ஆண்யானை. (பிங்கலகண்டு) தந்தியும் பிடிகளுந் தடங்க ணோக்கின [anyanai. (pingalagandu) thanthiyum pidigalun thadanga nokkina] (கம்பராமாயணம் சித்திரகூட. [kambaramayanam sithiraguda.] 43).
2. Snake, as having fangs; [நச்சுப்பற்களை யுடையது] பாம்பு. தந்தி நஞ்சந் தலைக்கொளச் சாய்ந்தவர் [[nachupparkalai yudaiyathu] pambu. thanthi nanchan thalaikkolas saynthavar] (கந்தபு. சயந்தன்கனவு. [kanthapu. sayanthankanavu.] 21).
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Tanti (தந்தி) noun < tantrī.
1. Wire; கம்பி. நார் தந்திமிடையப்பின்னி [kambi. narrinai thanthimidaiyappinni] (தைலவருக்கச்சுருக்கம் பாயி. [thailavarukkachurukkam payi.] 22).
2. Catgut, string of a musical instrument; யாழ் நரம்பு. [yazh narambu.] (W.)
3. Sinew, tendon; நரம்பு. குதிகால் தந்தியை அறுத்துவிடுவேன். [narambu. kuthigal thanthiyai aruthuviduven.] Local usage
4. Telegram; மின்சாரக்கம்பிமூல மனுப்புஞ் செய்தி. [minsarakkambimula manuppugn seythi.] Mod.
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Tanti (தந்தி) noun < tantrin. Lute; யாழ். (பிங்கலகண்டு) [yazh. (pingalagandu)]
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Tanti (தந்தி) noun < dantībīja. See தந்திபீசம். (வைத்திய மலையகராதி) [thanthipisam. (vaithiya malaiyagarathi)]
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Tāṇṭi (தாண்டி) noun < tāṇḍi. Treatise on dancing; நடனசாத்திரம். (யாழ்ப்பாணத்து மானிப்பாயகராதி) [nadanasathiram. (yazhppanathu manippayagarathi)]
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Tānti (தாந்தி) noun < dānti. Self-restraint; மனவடக்கம். தழைத்த நற்சாந்தி தாந்தியே பெருக்கும் [manavadakkam. thazhaitha narsanthi thanthiye perukkum] (வேதாரணிய புராணம் மேன்மைச். [vetharaniya puranam menmais.] 2).
Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Nepali dictionary
Source: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryTāṃtī (तांती):—[=ताँती] n. 1. row; range; line; 2. string; catgut;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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Rudra-Shiva concept (Study) (by Maumita Bhattacharjee)
9. Rudra in the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa < [Chapter 3 - Rudra-Śiva in the Brāhmaṇa Literature]
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Musical Instruments in Sanskrit Literature (by S. Karthick Raj KMoundinya)
Origin of the Puskara (Ankya and Alingya) < [Chapter 2 - Origin and evolution of Music and Musical instruments]
Appendix 1 - List of plates: Stringed Instruments
Ancient stringed instruments—The Yazh < [Chapter 2 - Origin and evolution of Music and Musical instruments]
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