Upadhana, Upadhāna: 21 definitions
Introduction:
Upadhana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Hindi. 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.
Alternative spellings of this word include Updhan.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Upadhāna (उपधान):—A modality for treatment of poisoning Incision made on scalp (vertex) resembling the feet of the crow and then applying medicated paste or placing meat of goat, cow or buffalo over the incised scalp, which will absorb the poison from the body.
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.
Kama-shastra (the science of Love-making)
Upadhāna (उपधान) refers to the “pillows” (situated in the householders’ residence—when settling down as a citizen), according to chapter 1.4 of Vātsyāyana’s Kāmasūtra: a Sanskrit text from the 2nd century dealing with eroticism, sexuality and emotional fulfillment in life belonging to Kāmaśāstra (the ancient Indian science of love-making).—Accordingly [while describing the residence of a citizen]: “[...] The house should be surrounded by a garden, and also contain two rooms, an outer and an inner one. The inner room should be occupied by the females, while the outer room, balmy with rich perfumes, should contain a bed, soft, agreeable to the sight, covered with a clean white cloth, low in the middle part, having garlands and bunches of flowers upon it, and a canopy above it, and two pillows (ubhaya-upadhāna), one at the top, another at the bottom. [...]”.
Kamashastra (कामशास्त्र, kāmaśāstra) deals with ancient Indian science of love-making, passion, emotions and other related topics dealing with the pleasures of the senses.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
upadhāna : (nt.) a pillow. (adj.), causing; imposing.
Upadhāna, (adj. nt.) (fr. upa + dhā, cp. upadahati) “putting under”, i.e. (1) a pillow, cushion D. I, 7; S. II, 267 = Miln. 366 (kaḷingar°); S. III, 145; A. I, 137, 181; III, 50, J. IV, 201; V, 506 (tamb° = ratt° C.); (2) imposing, giving, causing Dh. 291 dukkh°). (Page 142)
upadhāna (ဥပဓာန) [(na) (န)]—
[upa+dhā+yu．upadhīyate sīsāsanaṃ karīyateti upadhānaṃ,yu．dhā,dhāraṇe．,ṭī．311．upa+ṭhā+yu．sīso upagantvā tiṭṭhati etthāti upadhānaṃ．pā,yo．321]
[ဥပ+ဓာ+ယု။ ဥပဓီယတေ သီသာသနံ ကရီယတေတိ ဥပဓာနံ၊ ယု။ ဓာ၊ ဓာရဏေ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၃၁၁။ ဥပ+ဌာ+ယု။ သီသော ဥပဂန္တွာ တိဋ္ဌတိ ဧတ္ထာတိ ဥပဓာနံ။ ပါစိတ်၊ ယော။ ၃၂၁]
[Pali to Burmese]
upadhāna—
(Burmese text): (၁) မှီခြင်း,အုံးခြင်း။ (၂) ဖြစ်စေခြင်း။ (၃) အုံး၊ (မှီခြင်း,ခေါင်းအုံး,ခြေအုံး စသည်)။ (၄) ထောက်တိုင်၊ အခုအခံ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Support, embrace. (2) Causing. (3) Embrace, (support, head embrace, leg embrace, etc.). (4) Support, current support.
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.
Marathi-English dictionary
upadhāna (उपधान).—n S Conferring, bestowing, affording, imparting, communicating. 2 (Commonly upādhi) Communication, by body to body, of qualities (as through union or juxta-position): virtuous reflection.
upadhāna (उपधान).—n Conferring, bestowing, afford- ing, imparting, communicating.
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
Upadhāna (उपधान).—a. Used (as a Mantra) in the putting up of the sacrificial bricks; P.IV.4.125.
-nam 1 Placing or resting upon.
2) A pillow, cushion; रामबाहुरुपधानमेष (rāmabāhurupadhānameṣa) Uttararāmacarita 1. विपुलमुपधानं भुजलता (vipulamupadhānaṃ bhujalatā) Bhartṛhari 3.79.
3) Peculiarity, individuality (viśeṣam); फलोपाधानाभावात् (phalopādhānābhāvāt) P.VI.3.39. Sk.
4) Affection, kindness.
5) A religious observance among especially the Jainas for preparing the ground for future monkhood.
6) Excellence or excellent quality; सोपधानां धियं धीराः स्थेयसीं खट्वयन्ति ये (sopadhānāṃ dhiyaṃ dhīrāḥ stheyasīṃ khaṭvayanti ye) Śiśupālavadha 2.77. (where u° also means a pillow).
7) Poison.
8) A small wooden pin of a stringed musical instrument; पाशोपधानां ज्यातन्त्रीं चापदण्डां महास्वनाम् (pāśopadhānāṃ jyātantrīṃ cāpadaṇḍāṃ mahāsvanām) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 4.35.16.
-nī 1 A pillow, cushion.
2) A foot-stool.
Upadhāna (उपधान).—(1) nt. (= Pali id., Dhammapada (Pali) 291 paraduk-khūpadhānena yo attano sukham icchati, on the basis of, by means of, pain to others…, compare Senart Mahāvastu i.464, n. on i.112.3), basis, what causes or is needful for…, usually in composition with sukha-: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 284.10 (verse), read, evaṃ (or, etan) mamo sarvasukhopadhānaṃ saddharma…, the Good Law which is the basis of all happiness for me; 339.4 sarvasukhopadhāna-pratimaṇḍitāḥ; 348.2 sattvānāṃ sar- vasukhopadhānaṃ dadyāt; Jātakamālā 18.12 dānaṃ naikasu- khopadhānasumukhaṃ; Mahāvyutpatti 6140 sukhopadhānam = Tibetan bde baḥi yo byad, what is needful for happiness; sarvasukhopadhānena Mahāvastu i.302.6; Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 67.11 (sukhitān kuryāt); 114.3; Kāraṇḍavvūha 28.7; °dhānair Śikṣāsamuccaya 173.14; sukhopa- dhānaiḥ (preceding word missing) Kāśyapa Parivarta 159.3; manuṣyasu- khopadhānena Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 113.10; upadhānasaṃpanno Mahāvastu ii.259. 14, epithet of Buddha, possessed of the basis (sc. of happiness, presumably short for sukhopa°); also [compound] with hita-, Mahāvastu i.112.3 (verse) sarvaṃ hitopadhānaṃ, all the basis of wel- fare; with duḥkha- (as in Pali, above), Gaṇḍavyūha 354.16 yat teṣāṃ sattvānāṃ duḥkhopadhānaṃ tad utsṛjya; (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 110.20—21, see s.v. śatana; (2) ifc. [bahuvrīhi], base, rest, sup- port (lit. and physical): Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 22.3, 5 and 27.9 aśmanta- kopadhānāyāṃ (resting on a stove) kāṃsyapātryāṃ (in 22.5 °kopādh°, misprint); (3) piṇḍopadhāna, see this; (4) m., n. pr. (proper name), in Mahāvastu iii.176.14, a cousin of the Buddha, son of Śuklodana and brother of Ānanda and Devadatta; perhaps distortion of some other name (Upananda?).
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Upādhāna (उपाधान).—[, Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 22.5, misprint for upadhāna, q.v.]
Upadhāna (उपधान).—n.
(-naṃ) 1. A pillow. 2. Kindness, affection. 3. Poison. 4. Religious observance or obligation. 5. Excellence, excellent quality. 6. Resting or placing upon. E. upa, dhā to have or hold, lyuṭ aff.
Upadhāna (उपधान).—i. e. upa-dhā + ana, n., and f. nī, A pillow, [Rāmāyaṇa] 2, 42, 15; Mahābhārata 1, 7165.
Upadhāna (उपधान).—[adjective] & [neuter] setting up; [neuter] also = seq.
1) Upadhāna (उपधान):—[=upa-dhāna] [from upa-dhā] mfn. placing upon, employed or used in placing upon (as a Mantra in the setting up of the sacrificial bricks), [Pāṇini 4-4, 125]
2) [v.s. ...] n. the act of placing or resting upon, [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Kauśika-sūtra]
3) [v.s. ...] that on which one rests, a pillow, cushion, [Atharva-veda xiv, 2, 65; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Mahābhārata; Suśruta] etc.
4) [v.s. ...] cover, lid, [Caraka; Hemādri’s Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi]
5) [v.s. ...] peculiarity, singularity, excellence (cf. premopa), [Bālarāmāyaṇa; Siddhānta-kaumudī]
6) [v.s. ...] affection, kindness
7) [v.s. ...] religious observance
8) [v.s. ...] poison, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
9) [v.s. ...] (also) fetching, procuring, [Jātakamālā]
10) [v.s. ...] a jewel-case, ibidem
1) Upadhāna (उपधान):—[upa-dhāna] (naṃ) 1. n. A pillow; kindness; poison; religious observance; excellence; placing on.
2) Upādhāna (उपाधान):—(naṃ) 1. n. Placing, applying.
Upadhāna (उपधान):—(von dhā, dadhāti mit upa)
1) n. a) das Aufsetzen: dakṣiṇārdhe kapālopadhānam [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 5, 8, 15. 2, 4, 25. 16, 7, 14.] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 24.] — b) Kissen, Polster [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 3, 39.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 230.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 683.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 163.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 169.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 14, 2, 65.] āsandī sopadhānā [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 21, 3, 29] (so v. a. upabarhaṇa [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 13, 8, 4, 10]). yaḥ sukheṣūpadhāneṣu śete [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 42, 15.] suptāstu te sarva eva kṛṣṇā ca teṣāṃ caraṇopadhāne [Mahābhārata 1, 7183.] divyapādopadhāne ca niṣaṇṇaḥ paramāsane [2, 389.] kṛtopadhānaṃ tadā balamāsīt [3, 656.] kṛtopadhāne mṛduvistīrṇe śayane [Suśruta 1, 368, 9.] mṛdugaṇḍopadhānāni [2, 41, 9.] [Bhartṛhari 3, 89.] upadhānī f. dass.: (kṛṣṇā) aśeta bhūmau saha pāṇḍuputraiḥ pādopadhānī ca kṛtā kuśeṣu [Mahābhārata 1, 7165.] — c) Besonderheit, Eigenthümlichkeit (viśeṣa) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 231.] phalopadhānābhāvāt wegen Nichtdaseins einer besondern Folge [Siddhāntakaumudī] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.6,3,39.] — d) Zuneigung [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] — e) Gelübde [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] — f) Gift [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] —
2) adj. was beim Aufsetzen angewendet wird, dazu dient: tadvānāsāmupadhāno mantra itīṣṭakāsu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 4, 125.] varcaḥśabdo yasminmantre sa varcasvān varcasvānupadhāno mantra āsāmiṣṭakānām varcasyā upadadhāti; aṅgulimānupadhāno hasta āsām [Scholiast] Vgl. upadheya .
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Upadhāna (उपधान):—vgl. gaṇḍopadhāna .
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Upadhāna (उपधान):—etwa Zapfen an der Vīṇā; am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Mahābhārata 4, 1164.]
Upadhāna (उपधान):——
1) Adj. aufsetzend , beim Aufsetzen angewendet. —
2) n. (adj. Comp. f. ā) — a) das Aufsetzen [Śulbasūtra 3,46.] — b) das Hinzufügen Comm. zu [Lāṭyāyana’s Śrautasūtra 7,9,8.] — c) Kissen , Polster. — d) Einschlagtuch (für Stoffe , die unter die Press kommen) [Carakasaṃhitā 1,15.] — e) Deckel [Hemādri’s Caturvargacintāmaṇi 1,416,15.] — f) etwa Zapfen an der Vīṇā. — g) Ausserordentlichkeit , Ungewöhnlichkeit. premopa eine ungewöhnliche Liebe [Bālarāmāyaṇa 92,19.] phalopadhāna [SIDDH.K.] — h) *Zuneigung. — i) *Gelübde. — k) *Gift. —
3) f. upadhānī Kissen.
Upadhāna (उपधान) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Uvahāṇa, Ohāṇa.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Upadhāna (उपधान) [Also spelled updhan]:—(nm) a pillow, bolster.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Upadhāna (ಉಪಧಾನ):—
1) [noun] a leaning on; reclination; reposing.
2) [noun] a cloth case filled with feathers, down, foam rubber, air, etc., used as a support, as for leaning or reclining on; a side-pillow.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Upadhāna (उपधान):—n. a pillow; a bolster; cushion;
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Ao, Yu, Yu, Upa, Dha, Dhana, Ta, Tana.
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