Utsadana, Utsādana: 13 definitions
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Utsadana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Utsādana (उत्सादन) refers to “ointments” and “unguents” forming part of the cosmetics and personal decoration that was once commonly applied to one’s body in ancient Kashmir (Kaśmīra) as mentioned in the Nīlamatapurāṇa.—Reference is made in the Nīlamata to various sorts of scents, perfumes, unguents, flowers and garlands. Some processes of decoration like rubbing the body with emollient unguents (udvartana), anointing it with unguents (utsādana) and applying sandle-paste etc. after bath (anulepana) are referred to.
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.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Utsādana (उत्सादन):—The act of rubbing the body with unctuous substances in opposite direction, i. e opposite to hair follicles. Rubbing is done even with unctuous paste.
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)
Utsādana (उत्सादन) refers to “dressing” or “pressing” (the hair) and represents one of the “sixty four kinds of Art”, according to the Kāmasūtra of Vātsyāyaṇa.—Indian tradition, basically includes sixty four Art forms are acknowledged. The references of sixty four kinds of kalā are found in the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Śaiva-Tantras, Kāmasūtra of Vātsyāyaṇa etc.—Cf. “utsādane saṃvāhane keśamardane ca kauśalam”—“proficiency in pressing, shampooing and dressing hair”.
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
Sanskrit dictionary
Utsādana (उत्सादन).—
1) Destroying, overturning; उत्सादनार्थं लोकानाम् (utsādanārthaṃ lokānām) Mb.; Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 17.19.
2) Suspending, interrupting.
3) Cleaning the person with perfumes, chafing the limbs; उत्सादनं च गात्राणां स्नापनोच्छिष्टभोजने । न कुर्याद् गुरुपुत्रस्य पादयोश्चावनेजनम् (utsādanaṃ ca gātrāṇāṃ snāpanocchiṣṭabhojane | na kuryād guruputrasya pādayoścāvanejanam) | Manusmṛti 2.29,211. अथ गन्धोत्सादने (atha gandhotsādane) (v. l. tsadane) वाससी । मानवगृह्यसूत्र (vāsasī | mānavagṛhyasūtra) of मेत्रायणीय शाखा (metrāyaṇīya śākhā) and the commentator says : गन्धश्चन्दनादि । उत्सादनं उद्वर्तनं पक्वतैलादिना । उद्वर्तनोत्सादने द्वे समे (gandhaścandanādi | utsādanaṃ udvartanaṃ pakvatailādinā | udvartanotsādane dve same) | Ak. cf. also अभ्यङ्गोत्सादनं मूर्ध्नि तैलं जेन्ताकमातपं भजेत् (abhyaṅgotsādanaṃ mūrdhni tailaṃ jentākamātapaṃ bhajet) &c. चरकसंहिता, सूत्रस्थान (carakasaṃhitā, sūtrasthāna), chap. 6, verse 14. वात्स्यायन (vātsyāyana) mentions it as one of the 64 Arts in his कामसूत्र (kāmasūtra). यशोधर (yaśodhara) says पादाभ्यां यन्मर्दनं तदुत्सादनमुच्यते (pādābhyāṃ yanmardanaṃ tadutsādanamucyate) |
4) Healing a sore.
5) Going up, ascending, rising.
6) Elevating. raising.
7) Ploughing a field twice (or thoroughly).
Derivable forms: utsādanam (उत्सादनम्).
Utsadana (उत्सदन).—nt. (= utsīdana; with meaning 1 compare Sanskrit utsīdati; with meaning 2 compare prec. and an-utsanna), (1) coming to grief, ruin: sthale utsadanam Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.49.10, 17 (in 2 above read utsatsyati for utpat°); (2) superfluous abun- dance, excess, in °na-dharmakaṃ (bhaktaṃ) Divyāvadāna 307.23, 27, of food offered to monks and not fully used by them, of the nature of excess ([Boehtlingk] 7.323 zum Wegräumen bestimmt). For Mahāvyutpatti 6781 utsādanam = Tibetan dril ba (rolling, in sense of rubbing down, massage; so Sanskrit), Minayev and Mironov read utsadanam, apparently a faulty reading.
Utsādana (उत्सादन).—n.
(-naṃ) 1. Going up, ascending, rising. 2. Raising, elevating. 3. Destroying, overturning. 4. Cleaning the person with perfumes. 5. Rubbing or chafing the limbs. 6. Ploughing a field twice or thoroughly. 7. Healing a sore, causing it to fill up. E. ut much, ṣad to destroy, in the causal form, affix lyuṭ.
Utsādana (उत्सादन).—i. e. ud-sad + ana, n. 1. Destruction, [Rāmāyaṇa] 1, 74, 21. 2. Cleaning with perfumes, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 2, 209.
Utsādana (उत्सादन).—[neuter] putting off, interrupting, injuring, destroying; rubbing or chafing the limbs.
1) Utsādana (उत्सादन):—[=ut-sādana] [from ut-sad] n. putting away or aside
2) [v.s. ...] suspending, interrupting, omitting, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra]
3) [v.s. ...] destroying, overturning, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa; Bhagavad-gītā]
4) [v.s. ...] rubbing, chafing, anointing, [Manu-smṛti; Suśruta; Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra]
5) [v.s. ...] causing a sore to fill up, healing it, [Suśruta]
6) [v.s. ...] a means of healing a sore, [Caraka]
7) [v.s. ...] going up, ascending, rising, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
8) [v.s. ...] raising, elevating, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
9) [v.s. ...] ploughing a field twice or thoroughly, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Utsādana (उत्सादन):—[utsā+dana] (naṃ) 1. n. Going up; cleaning the person with perfumes.
Utsādana (उत्सादन):—(wie eben) n.
1) das Wegsetzen, Aussetzen, Abbrechen, Einstellen [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 9, 2, 1, 23. 14, 3, 2, 21.] pravargyotsādana [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 14, 1, 13. 18, 3, 10. 26, 7, 1. 10.] [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 12, 4.] —
2) das Vernichten, Zugrunderichten: utsādanārthaṃ lokānām [Mahābhārata 3, 8771. 13511. 14800.] [Bhagavadgītā 17, 19.] [Arjunasamāgama 3, 55.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 74, 21.] —
3) das Ausreinigen, Abreiben, Einreiben [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 3, 23.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 635.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 164.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 170.] [Suśruta 1, 297, 16. 2, 167, 3. 386, 18. 393, 6.] gātrāṇām [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 209. 211.] —
4) das Ausheilen einer Wunde u.s.w., Mittel dazu [Suśruta 1, 134, 9. 2, 45, 11. 62, 7.] — Nach [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] und [Medinīkoṣa] = samullekha und udvāhana . Vgl. ucchādana .
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Utsādana (उत्सादन):—
2) [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 8, 7. 34, 44. 36, 24.] —
3) [Oxforder Handschriften 217,a,14.] — Vgl. prototsādana .
Utsādana (उत्सादन):—n. —
1) das Wegsetzen [Indische studien von Weber 13,278.] —
2) das Aussetzen , Abbrechen , Einstellen. utsādanārtham Adv. [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14,3,2,21.] —
3) das Vernichten , Zugrunderichten. —
4) das Ausreiben , Abreiben , Einreiben [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtra 4,7.] —
5) das Höhermachen einer Wunde u.s.w. , ein Mittel dazu [Carakasaṃhitā 6,13.]
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
Utsādana (ಉತ್ಸಾದನ):—
1) [noun] an overturning; making upside down; uprooting; destroying.
2) [noun] a ploughing thoroughly.
3) [noun] cleaning of a person’s body and anointing with perfumes.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Full-text: Prototsadana, Gatrotsadana, Samullekha, Utsidana, Utsadaniya, Ucchadana, Ucchada, Abhicara, Ushnodaka, Udvartana, Alaktaka, Anutsanna, Kala, Anjana, Jing shen, Udvahana, Ruksha.
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