Vagisha, Vāgīśā, Vāgīśa, Vāgīsa: 20 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Vāgīśā and Vāgīśa can be transliterated into English as Vagisa or Vagisha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Vagish.
In Hinduism
Yoga (school of philosophy)
Vāgīśā (वागीशा, “The Queen of Speech”):—A name of Sarasvatī, the consort of Brahmā, according to the Khecarīvidyā by Ādinātha.
Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Vāgīśā (वागीशा, “highest speech”) is another name for Brāhmī, the form of Trikalā having a white body representing the energy of Brahmā, according to the Varāhapurāṇa chapter 91. Trikalā (त्रिकला) is the name of a Goddess born from the combined looks of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara (Śiva).
The Varāhapurāṇa is categorised as a Mahāpurāṇa, and was originally composed of 24,000 metrical verses, possibly originating from before the 10th century. It is composed of two parts and Sūta is the main narrator.
Vāgīśa (वागीश).—Also Vāgadhīśa and Vākpati; God of learning.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 22. 79; 23. 33, 46.
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.
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Vāgīśa (वागीश) refers to the planet Jupiter, according to the Ghaṭikāyantraghaṭanāvidhi, an unpublished manuscript describing the ritual connected with the setting up of the water clock and its invocation.—Accordingly, “[Now the pala-verses]: [...] May the Sun [i.e., mārtāṇḍa], the Moon [i.e., tārānātha], Mars [i.e., kṣoṇīsūnu], Mercury [i.e., indusūnu], Jupiter [i.e., vāgīśa], Venus [i.e., daityācārya], Saturn [i.e., chāyāputra], Rāhu and Ketu, all these, together with the lunar mansions beginning with Aśvinī, and all these stars, produce auspiciousness, constant good health, prosperity, and longevity [for the couple]”.
Vāgīśa (वागीश) refers to one of the 18 names of Jupiter (Bṛhaspati) according to the Bṛhaspati-kavaca-mantra from the Brahmayāmalatantra. In jyotiṣa there is a saying that when Jupiter protects there is none that can destroy. The eighteen names of Jupiter (viz., Vāgīśa) relate to eighteen body parts starting from the top of head (śiras). One method uses this formula: Each name associates with two drekkāṇa reckoned from lagna in the horoscope.
Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Vāgīśa (वागीश) is the name of an ancient Pāñcarātra Saṃhitā mentioned in the Padmasaṃhitā: the most widely followed of Saṃhitā covering the entire range of concerns of Pāñcarātra doctrine and practice (i.e., the four-fold formulation of subject matter—jñāna, yoga, kriyā and caryā) consisting of roughly 9000 verses.—[Cf. Jñānapāda chapter 1, verses 99-114]—First is explained the folly of following more than one Saṃhitā for a single series of rituals. Then the names of the 108 Tantras of the Pāñcarātra corpus are named [e.g., Vāgīśa]. Even those who repeat these 108 titles will gain salvation.
1) Vāgīśa (वागीश) is the name of a deity associated with the “right door-jamb”, as discussed in the ninth chapter of the Īśvarasaṃhitā (printed edition), a Pāñcarātra work in 8200 verses and 24 chapters dealing with topics such as routines of temple worship, major and minor festivals, temple-building and initiation.—Description of the chapter [dvārāvaraṇa-devatālakṣaṇa-ādi-vidhi]: This chapter concerns the daily ritual obligations owed to the deities whose abodes are fixed in the temple doorways—namely, Vāgīśa in the right door-jamb [dakṣiṇa], Kṣetranātha in the left [vāma], and Lakṣmī in the lintel along with the personified discus of Viṣṇu (i.e., Cakra). Their respective descriptions are given (5-16). At the entrance of the sanctuary [garbhagṛha], Gaṇādhipa and Pracaṇḍa are to be found, with Garuḍa in the lintel (17-28); while in the maṇḍapa attached to the sanctuary Dhātā and Vidhātā will be found.
2) Vāgīśa (वागीश) or Vāgīśamaṇḍala refers to one of the twenty-five Maṇḍalas (“esoteric designs”) mentioned in chapter 5 of the Pauṣkarasaṃhitā: a Pāñcarātra text of almost 5900 verses divided into forty-three chapters presented as a frame-work dialogue between Pauṣkara and Bhagavān dealing with the esoteric meaning of maṇḍala-designs, worship routines and temple-building.—[Cf. chapter 5 named sarvatobhadrādimaṇḍa-lalakṣaṇa].
Vāgīśa (वागीश) or Vāgīśasaṃhitā is the name of a Vaiṣṇava Āgama scripture, classified as a rājasa type of the Muniprokta group of Pāñcarātra Āgamas. The vaiṣṇavāgamas represent one of the three classes of āgamas (traditionally communicated wisdom).—Texts of the Pāñcara Āgamas are divided in to two sects. It is believed that Lord Vāsudeva revealed the first group of texts which are called Divya and the next group is called Muniprokta which are further divided in to three viz. a. Sāttvika. b. Rājasa (e.g., Vāgīśa-saṃhitā). c. Tāmasa.
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Vāgīśa (वागीश).—(= Pali Vaṅgīsa), name of a disciple of Buddha: Mahāvastu i.163.12 (praises Buddha); 267.10; 269.10 (tells an incident in a past existence of Buddha and himself); Pravāraṇa Sūtra, Hoernle [Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan] 38.1 (with Pali parallel, SN i.191.28 ff.); Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.182.19 ff.
Vāgīśa (वागीश).—mfn.
(-śaḥ-śā-śaṃ) Eloquent, well spoken. m.
(-śaḥ) 1. An author, an orator, a poet, &c. 2. Brahma. E. vāk speech, īśa master.
Vāgīśa (वागीश).—[adjective] & [masculine] = seq. (often —° in names of learned men).
Vāgīśa (वागीश) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Nyāyasiddhāñjana. Rice. 114.
1) Vāgīśa (वागीश):—[=vāg-īśa] [from vāg > vāc] mfn. one who is a master of language, eloquent, an orator, author, poet etc. (frequently at the end of names of scholars), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature]
2) [v.s. ...] Name of Bṛhas-pati or the planet Jupiter, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]
3) [v.s. ...] of Brahmā, [Kumāra-sambhava; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
4) [v.s. ...] (also with bhaṭṭācārya) Name of various authors, [Catalogue(s)]
5) Vāgīśā (वागीशा):—[=vāg-īśā] [from vāg-īśa > vāg > vāc] f. Name of Sarasvatī, [Sāyaṇa]
Vāgīśa (वागीश):—[vāgī+śa] (śaḥ-śā-śaṃ) a. Eloquent. m. Author, poet, orator; Brahmā.
Vāgīśa (वागीश):—[Vopadeva’s Grammatik 2, 37.]
1) adj. subst. der Rede mächtig, ein Meister in der Redekunst [Amarakoṣa 3, 1, 35.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 346.] [Mahābhārata 10, 292.] am Ende von Namen grosser Gelehrten: kṛṣṇānanda [Oxforder Handschriften 95,b,30.] siddhānta [106,b, Nalopākhyāna 261,a,17. fg.] Vgl. nyāya . —
2) m. Beiname Brahman's [Kumārasaṃbhava.2,3.] [Oxforder Handschriften 75,a, No. 129.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.3,6,23.] —
3) m. der Planet Jupiter [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 17, 27. 86, 1.] [BṚH. 3, 7.] —
4) f. ā Beiname der Sarasvati [Oxforder Handschriften 63,a, No. 113.] [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,398] (vāgeśā gedr.). vāgīśādyāḥ [Sāyaṇa] Comm. Einl.
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
Vāgīśa (वागीश) [Also spelled vagish]:—[[~śvara]] (nm) master of speech, an eloquent person, a great orator; a poet, an author.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Vāgīśa (ವಾಗೀಶ):—
1) [noun] a man having mastery over his speech; an orator; an eloquent man.
2) [noun] Bṛhaspati, the preceptor of gods.
3) [noun] Brahma, the consort of the Speech-Goddess Sarasvati.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vāgīśa (वागीश):—n. 1. a poet; 2. the planet Mars; 3. Mythol. the Brahma; adj. sweet-speaking;
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.
Pali-English dictionary
vāgīsa (ဝါဂီသ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[vādī+īsa．apa,ṭṭha,2．256．vācānaṃ īso issaro vāgīso．+īsa．kappadduma．vāgīga-saṃ．sakkatapiṭaka．]
[ဝါဒီ+ဤသ။ အပ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၂၅၆။ ဝါစာနံ ဤသော ဣဿရော ဝါဂီသော။ ဝါတ်+ဤသ။ ကပ္ပဒ္ဒုမ။ ဝါဂီဂ-သံ။ သက္ကတပိဋက။]
[Pali to Burmese]
vāgīsa—
(Burmese text): (၁) စကားကိုအစိုးရသူ။ (၂) (စကားတတ်ပညာရှိတို့၏ အကြီးအမှူးဖြစ်သည့် ဧတဒဂ်ရ) ဝင်္ဂီသထေရ်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The speech belongs to the government. (2) (The expertise of the eloquent people is the great leader, Aitadagya) Wingeethae.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Vac, Vadi, Isha, Vati.
Starts with: Vagisha bhatta, Vagisha bhattacarya, Vagishamandala, Vagishariyantra, Vagishasamhita, Vagishatirtha, Vagishatva.
Full-text (+69): Nyayavagisha, Nyayasiddhantavagisha, Ratikantatarkavagisha, Vidyavagisha, Vagishatva, Vagishatirtha, Vagishasamhita, Vagisha bhattacarya, Vagisha bhatta, Nandarama vagisha, Venidatta vagisha bhatta, Jayadeva vagisha, Vedantavagisha, Vadisha, Vagishamandala, Vagish, Vakicar, Vagishvara, Vishnuramasiddhantavagisha, Tarkavagisha.
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