Tirthya, Tīrthya: 7 definitions

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Kavya (poetry)

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Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Tīrthya (तीर्थ्य) is a word similar to Tīrthika which refers to a “follower of a religion or a sect”, as mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 17.50, 103.—In 17.50 the Cārvāka addresses the adherents of the orthodox faith as Tīrthika. [...] Laṅkāvatārasūtra uses the words Tīrthya and Tīrthakara in a similar sense. As pointed out by the editors, the word Tīrthya (Tīrthakara) generally means “non-Buddhists”, who often turn out to be followers of the Brahmanical schools. The Buddhists thus use the words Tīrthika, Tīrthya and Tīrthakara to signify the adherents o f non-Buddhist, especially Brahmanical, schools of thought, as distinguished from the members of their own faith, the Svayūthyas, as they are called in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tīrthya (तीर्थ्य).—a. Relating to a sacred place; Vāj.16.42.

-rthyaḥ An ascetic.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Tīrthya (तीर्थ्य).—(= tīrthika, q.v.; Pali titthiya), heretic: Lalitavistara 248.14; 250.1; Divyāvadāna 81.7, 9; 126.18; 127.25 ff.; 143.13 ff., etc.; Avadāna-śataka i.112.7, etc.; Daśabhūmikasūtra 47.3; Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 2.7; 7.16; common in prose as well as verses, tho in most texts less common than tīrthika; para-t° Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 3.16; tīrthyāyatana, see āyatana (2). See next.

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

Tīrthya (तीर्थ्य).—[adjective] belonging to a ford or bathing-place; [masculine] = tīrthaka [masculine]

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

1) Tīrthya (तीर्थ्य):—[from tīra] mfn. relating to a sacred Tīrtha, [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā xvi, 42]

2) [v.s. ...] m. = thika, [Buddhist literature]

3) [v.s. ...] cf. sa-

4) [v.s. ...] tairthya.

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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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