Vandaniya, Vamdaniya, Vanda-aniya, Vandanīyā: 15 definitions
Introduction:
Vandaniya means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Hindi, biology. 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)
Vandanīyā (वन्दनीया).—The Goddess enshrined at Aśvattha.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 13. 51.
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)
Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)
Vandanīya (वन्दनीय) is another name for (the yellow variety of) Mārkava, a medicinal plant identified with Wedelia calendulacea Less. which is a synonym of Sphagneticola calendulacea from the Asteraceae or “aster” family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.138-141 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (śatāhvādi-varga) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (pṛthu-kṣupa). Together with the names Vandanīya and Mārkava, there are a total of twenty Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.
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.
Biology (plants and animals)
Vandaniya in India is the name of a plant defined with Sphagneticola calendulacea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Complaya chinensis (Osbeck) Strother (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Synopsis Generum Compositarum (1832)
· Philippine Journal of Science (1917)
· Notizblatt des Königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin (1900)
· Novon (1996)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1954)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Vandaniya, for example pregnancy safety, side effects, chemical composition, health benefits, diet and recipes, extract dosage, have a look at these references.
This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
vandanīya (वंदनीय).—a (S) (Worthy or fit) to be worshiped or reverenced.
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
Vandanīya (वन्दनीय).—a. Fit to be saluted, adorable.
-yā Yellow pigment.
Vandanīya (वन्दनीय).—mfn.
(-yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) Praise-worthy, to be eulogised. f.
(-yā) A yellow substance used as a pigment, said in the Tantras to be procured from the head of a cow: see rocanā. E. vadi to praise, anīyar aff.
Vandanīya (वन्दनीय).—[adjective] to be praised or greeted with homage.
1) Vandanīya (वन्दनीय):—[from vand] mfn. to be respectfully greeted, [Vajracchedikā]
2) [v.s. ...] m. a Verbesina with yellow flowers, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) Vandanīyā (वन्दनीया):—[from vandanīya > vand] f. a yellow pigment (= go-rocanā).
Vandanīya (वन्दनीय):—[(yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) a.] Praiseworthy. f. Yellow pigment.
Vandanīya (वन्दनीय):—(von vand)
1) adj. dem Ehrfurcht bezeugt werden muss, ehrfurchtsvoll zu begrüssen [Mahābhārata.7,2941. 12,13867. 13,2857.] [Rāmāyaṇa.2,58,13.] [Oxforder Handschriften 120,a,21. 187,b, No. 428, Z. 14. 199,a,18.] —
2) m. eine gelbblühende Verbesina (pītabhṛṅgarāja) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] —
3) f. ā = gorocanā [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 9, 22.]
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
Vaṃdanīya (वंदनीय) [Also spelled vandaniy]:—(a) adorable, worthy of worship.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Vaṃdanīya (ವಂದನೀಯ):—
1) [adjective] worthy of respect or reverence by reason of age and dignity; venerable; revered.
2) [adjective] worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; laudable.
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Vaṃdanīya (ವಂದನೀಯ):—
1) [noun] a man who is worthy of respect or reverence by reason of age and dignity; a venerable man.
2) [noun] a man who is worthy of being lauded.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vandanīya (वन्दनीय):—adj. praiseworthy; adorable; honorable; commendable;
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
1) vandaniya (ဝန္ဒနိယ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vanda+anīya．vandatīti vandanīyo．ī rassa-pru．vandana+ika．vandanaṃ karotīti vandaniko,sova vandaniyo．vandanīya-saṃ．vaṃdeṇiya-prā．vaṃdaṇijja-addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝန္ဒ+အနီယ။ ဝန္ဒတီတိ ဝန္ဒနီယော။ ဤကို ရဿ-ပြု။ ဝန္ဒန+ဣက။ ဝန္ဒနံ ကရောတီတိ ဝန္ဒနိကော၊ သောဝ ဝန္ဒနိယော။ ဝန္ဒနီယ-သံ။ ဝံဒေဏိယ-ပြာ။ ဝံဒဏိဇ္ဇ-အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
2) vandanīya (ဝန္ဒနီယ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vanda+anīya．vandana+īya．nīti,sutta．775．vandanīya-saṃ．vaṃdaṇiya,vaṃdaṇīa-prā,vaṃdaṇijja-addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝန္ဒ+အနီယ။ ဝန္ဒန+ဤယ။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။၇၇၅။ဝန္ဒနီယ-သံ။ ဝံဒဏိယ၊ ဝံဒဏီအ-ပြာ၊ ဝံဒဏိဇ္ဇ-အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) vandaniya—
(Burmese text): (ဝေဿဘူဘုရားအား ရှိခိုးတတ်သော)ဧကဝန္ဒနိယထေရ်။
(Auto-Translation): (Eka Wan Dhanaya Thera, who is devoted to the Weithabhu Buddha.)
2) vandanīya—
(Burmese text): ရှိခိုး-အပ်-သင့်-ထိုက်-သော၊ သူ။ ဝန္ဒနေယျ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): It is fitting for you, my partner. Also, look at the situation.
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: Aniya, Vanda.
Full-text: Abhivamdaniya, Uttamavandaniyabhava, Vandya, Avandaniya, Vandaniy, Pradakshiniya, Vanditavya, Abhivandati, Ashvattha, Markava.
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