Upashanta, Upa-asa-anta, Upa-samu-ta, Upasanta, Upaśantā, Upaśānta, Upāsanta, Upashamta: 18 definitions
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Upashanta means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.
The Sanskrit terms Upaśantā and Upaśānta can be transliterated into English as Upasanta or Upashanta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Upaśānta (उपशान्त) refers to the “peace” (of a Yogī), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[...] For the Yogī who has found peace (upaśānta) [na sukhaṃ na ca vā duḥkhamupaśāntasya yoginaḥ], there is no distraction or one-pointedness, no higher knowledge or ignorance, no pleasure and no pain. The dominion of heaven or beggary, gain or loss, life among men or in the forest, these make no difference to a yogi whose nature it is to be free from distinctions. [...]”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
1. Upasanta - One of the two chief disciples of Atthadassi Buddha (Bu.xv.19; J.i.39). He was the son of the chaplain of Sucandaka and the friend of Santa.
Santa and Upasanta visited the Buddha and for seven days entertained the Buddha and his monks. The two entered the Order with ninety eight thousand followers. BuA.179f.
2. Upasanta - A Pacceka Buddha to whom the thera Vajjita, in a previous birth thirty one kappas ago, gave a campaka flower. ThagA.i.336; Ap.i.288.
3. Upasanta (Upasantaka, Upasannaka) - The body servant of Vessabhu Buddha (D.ii.6; Bu.xxii.23; J.i.42). He was the king of Narivahana city and was converted by the Buddha, taking over with him a large following. BuA.206.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
1) Upaśantā (उपशन्ता) is the name of the universe of the west (paścima) according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XV). Accordingly, “In the west (paścima), beyond universes as numerous as the sands of the Ganges and at the extreme limit of these universes, there is a universe called Mie ngo (Upaśantā); its Buddha is called Pao chan (Ratnārcis) and its Bodhisattva Yi pi (Cāritramati)”.
2) Upaśantā (उपशन्ता) is the name of the “assistant” (upasthāyaka) of Buddha Viśvabhuj, according to the Mahāvadānasūtra, as mentioned in an appendix of the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter XLI. Each Buddha had his assistant (upasthāyaka), a monk specially attached to his person, entrusted with fanning him, carrying his robe and bowl for alms-round, introducing visitors. The Sanskrit Mahāvadānasūtra has drawn up a list of the assistants who served the last seven Buddhas: Aśoka for Vipaśyin, Kṣemakāra for Śikhin, Upaśanta for Viśvabhuj, Bhadrika for Krakasunda (or Krakucchanda), Svastika for Kanakamuni, Sarvamitra for Kāśyapa, and finally Ānanda for Śākyamuni.
Upaśānta (उपशान्त) refers to “calmness”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly as The Lord said: “Śāriputra, the Tathāgata Ekaratnavyūha, seating in the lion’s throne thus, explained the dharma-seal called Gaganapariśuddhi to these Bodhisattvas, which has thirty-two aspects of entrance. What is this Dharma-seal (dharmamudrā) called Gaganapariśuddhi which has thirty-two aspects of entrance? [...] 3) all dharmas are without cognition as they are invisible (adṛśya); 4) all dharmas are invisible since they lack causes and objects (hetvālambana); 5) all dharmas lack objects since they are calm (upaśānta-lakṣaṇa); 6) all dharmas are clam since they are without duality (advaya); [...]”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
upasanta : (pp. of upasammati) being calmed; composed or at peace.
Upasanta, (pp. of upa + śam, cp. upasammati) calmed, composed, tranquil, at peace M. I, 125; S. I, 83, 162; A. III, 394; Sn. 848, 919, 1087, 1099; Nd1 210, 352, 434; Nd2 161; Dh. 201, 378; Miln. 394; DhA. III, 260; IV, 114; PvA. 132 (= santa). (Page 147)
1) upasanta (ဥပသန္တ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[upa+samu+ta]
[ဥပ+သမု+တ]
2) upāsanta (ဥပါသန္တ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[upa+āsa+anta]
[ဥပ+အာသ+အန္တ]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) upasanta—
(Burmese text): (၁) ချုပ်ငြိမ်း-ငြိမ်းအေး-ငြိမ်းသက်-တည်ငြိမ်-ခြင်း။ (၂) ဥပသန္တမည်သူ။ (အတ္ထဒဿီမြတ်စွာဘုရား၏အဂ္ဂသာဝကဖြစ်သော ဥပသန္တထေရ်၊ ဝေဿဘူမြတ်စွာဘုရား၏ အလုပ်အကျွေးဖြစ်သော ဥပသန္တထေရ်ဟု နှစ်ဦးတွေ့ရ၏။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Calmness - Serenity - Tranquility - Stability - Being. (2) Worshipper. (The worshipper associated with the Blessed Lord of the Noble Speech, is the person who encounters the Blessed Lord of the Noble Virtues, in his work.)
2) upāsanta—
(Burmese text): ဆည်းကပ်တတ်သော၊ သူ။
(Auto-Translation): He is capable of sewing.
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
upaśānta (उपशांत).—p S Allayed, assuaged, mitigated, composed, calmed.
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
Upaśānta (उपशान्त).—p. p.
1) Calmed, appeased, pacified.
2) Calm, tranquil.
3) Lessened, diminished.
Upaśānta (उपशान्त).—name of a former Buddha: Mahāvastu iii.237.11 f.
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Upaśāntā (उपशान्ता).—name of a lokadhātu: Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 34.11.
Upaśānta (उपशान्त).—mfn.
(-ntaḥ-ntā-ntaṃ) 1. Calm, tranquil. 2. Appeased, pacified. 3. Diminished, intermitted. E. upa before śam to be tranquil, kta aff.
Upaśānta (उपशान्त).—[adjective] allayed, extinct.
1) Upaśānta (उपशान्त):—[=upa-śānta] [from upa-śam] mfn. calmed, appeased, pacified
2) [v.s. ...] calm, tranquil, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa; Kathāsaritsāgara]
3) [v.s. ...] ceased, extinct, intermitted, [Rāmāyaṇa; Praśna-upaniṣad]
4) [v.s. ...] n. tranquillity, peace, [Sukhāvatī-vyūha i].
Upaśānta (उपशान्त):—[upa-śānta] (ntaḥ-ntā-ntaṃ) p. Appeased
Upaśānta (उपशान्त) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Uvasaṃta.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Upaśāṃta (ಉಪಶಾಂತ):—
1) [adjective] calmed; appeased; pacified.
2) [adjective] calm; quiet; tranquil.
3) [adjective] lessened; diminished (said of pain, anguish, agony, fire, etc.).
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Upaśāṃta (ಉಪಶಾಂತ):—[noun] he who exercises maximum possible restraint in venting out his anger, and endures pain, trouble etc.; a patient man.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Upaśānta (उपशान्त):—adj. appeased; calm;
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: Santa, Upa, Luo, Camu, Da, Anta, Asha, Ta.
Starts with: Upashantadhi, Upashantagati, Upashantamoha, Upashantatman, Upashantavaira.
Full-text (+49): Anupashanta, Upashantatman, Upasantindriya, Upashantamoha, Vyupashanta, Upashantavaira, Upasantapatisa, Upashantagati, Upasantupasanta, Upasantakarana, Upasantakayavacikammanta, Upasantarupa, Upasantacitta, Kukkuccavupasanta, Duvupasanta, Upasantakilesa, Upasantasanta, Upasantaussanna, You bo shan duo, Upasantapadissa.
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Verse 2495: Beyond Three Voids—Maya, Bodha and Upasanta < [Tantra Eight (ettam tantiram) (verses 2122-2648)]
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