Vasudha, Vasu-dha, Vasudhā: 23 definitions
Introduction:
Vasudha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India, Marathi, 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
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Vasudhā (वसुधा, “wealth producing”):—One of the twenty-four emanations of Lakṣmī accompanying Nārāyaṇa. This particular manifestation couples with his counterpart form called Puruṣottama and together they form the seventeenth celestial couple. Lakṣmī represents a form of the Goddess (Devī) as the wife of Viṣṇu, while Nārāyaṇa represents the personification of his creative energy, according to the Pāñcarātra literature.
1) Vasudhā (वसुधा) refers to a “good plot” (for building), as discussed in the seventh chapter of the Kapiñjalasaṃhitā: a Pāñcarātra work consisting of 1550 verses dealing with a variety of topics such as worship in a temple, choosing an Ācārya, architecture, town-planning and iconography.—Description of the chapter [vasudhā-lakṣaṇa]:—Plots are here classified as “supadmā”, “bhadrakā”, and “supūrṇā” and “dhūmrā” (1-8). Taste, smell and color tests are recommended for selecting a good plot (10-12a).
2) Vasudhā (वसुधा) is the name of a Mantra discussed in chapter 29 (Caryāpāda) of 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.—Description of the chapter [śryādiparivāra-mantravarṇana]: In this chapter Bhagavān tells about the mantras to be used in the worship of Śrī and of the deities in Her retinue found in the precincts of the first prākāra-courtyard. [...] Then comes the mālā-mantra addressed to Śrī (47-64). This is followed by the vasudhā-mantra (65-82a), the dharaṇī-mantra (82b-95a), sarasvatī-mantra (95b-131), the ādhāraśakti-mantra (132-142), the ananta-mantra (143-149) and the bhū-mantra (150-1512). [...]
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.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Vasudhā (वसुधा).—Daughter of Narmadā, a Gandharva woman. Narmadā had three daughters Sundarī, Ketumatī and Vasudhā. (For more details see under Puṣpotkaṭā).
Vasudhā (वसुधा) refers to the “earth”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.15 (“The penance and reign of Tārakāsura”).—Accordingly, as Brahmā narrated: “[...] At the same time, several phenomena of evil portent forboding misery and distress happened, when the son of Varāṅgī was born making the gods miserable. [...] The earth [i.e., vasudhā] with all the mountains quaked; the quarters blazed; the rivers and oceans were particularly agitated. The rough wind blew with a hissing noise. Gusts of wind with troops of tempests and dust for banner uprooted several trees. [...]”.
1a) Vasudhā (वसुधा).—(also Vasundharā); ety. of.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 37. 1; 36. 226; Vāyu-purāṇa 63. 1.
1b) The deity to be remembered in installing a new image; the presiding deity is Śarva.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 265. 38, 40.
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)
Vasudhā (वसुधा).—1. Base of a triangle. 2. Earth. Note: Vasudhā is a Sanskrit technical term used in ancient Indian sciences such as Astronomy, Mathematics and Geometry.
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.
Kavya (poetry)
Vasudhā (वसुधा) refers to the “earth”, according to Kālidāsa’s Raghuvaṃśa verse 8.84.—Accordingly: “So do not think about her death. Those who have been born will surely die. Have regard for this Earth (vasudhā—vasudheyam), for the Earth is the true wife of kings”.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
Ganitashastra (Mathematics and Algebra)
Vasudhā (वसुधा) represents the number 1 (one) in the “word-numeral system” (bhūtasaṃkhyā), which was used in Sanskrit texts dealing with astronomy, mathematics, metrics, as well as in the dates of inscriptions and manuscripts in ancient Indian literature.—A system of expressing numbers by means of words arranged as in the place-value notation was developed and perfected in India in the early centuries of the Christian era. In this system the numerals [e.g., 1—vasudhā] are expressed by names of things, beings or concepts, which, naturally or in accordance with the teaching of the Śāstras, connote numbers.
Ganita (गणित) or Ganitashastra refers to the ancient Indian science of mathematics, algebra, number theory, arithmetic, etc. Closely allied with astronomy, both were commonly taught and studied in universities, even since the 1st millennium BCE. Ganita-shastra also includes ritualistic math-books such as the Shulba-sutras.
India history and geography
Vasudhā.—(IE 7-1-2), ‘one’. Note: vasudhā is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Biology (plants and animals)
Vasudha in India is the name of a plant defined with Phoenix sylvestris in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Elate versicolor Salisb. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· J. Investig. Allergol. Clin. Immunol. (2006)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Species Plantarum
· Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae (1864)
· Flora Indica (1832)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Vasudha, for example pregnancy safety, health benefits, chemical composition, diet and recipes, side effects, 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
Pali-English dictionary
vasudhā : (f.) the earth.
vasudhā (ဝသုဓာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[vasu+dhā+kvī．vasūni dhārayatīti vasudhā．ṭī．181．vasūni ratanāni dhārayatīti vasudhā．sūci．vasuṃratanaṃ dhāretīti vasudhā．nirutti．555,vasudhā-saṃprā．vasuhā-prā,addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝသု+ဓာ+ကွီ။ ဝသူနိ ဓာရယတီတိ ဝသုဓာ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၁၈၁။ ဝသူနိ ရတနာနိ ဓာရယတီတိ ဝသုဓာ။ သူစိ။ ဝသုံရတနံ ဓာရေတီတိ ဝသုဓာ။ နိရုတ္တိ။ ၅၅၅၊ ဝသုဓာ-သံပြာ။ ဝသုဟာ-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
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
vasudhā (वसुधा).—f The earth.
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
Vasudhā (वसुधा).—
1) the earth; वसुधेयमवेक्ष्यतां त्वया (vasudheyamavekṣyatāṃ tvayā) R.8.83; पुरा सप्तद्वीपां जयति वसुधामप्रतिरथः (purā saptadvīpāṃ jayati vasudhāmapratirathaḥ) Ś.7.35;1.25.
2) the heaven; धरान् धरित्रीं वसुधां भर्तुस्तिष्ठाम्यनन्तरम् (dharān dharitrīṃ vasudhāṃ bhartustiṣṭhāmyanantaram) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.93.1 (com. vasūn devān dhatte iti vyutpattyā vasudhāṃ divam).
3) the ground; वसुधालिङ्गनधूसरस्तनी (vasudhāliṅganadhūsarastanī) Kumārasambhava 4.4. °अधिपः (adhipaḥ) a king. °धरः (dharaḥ) a mountain; वसुधाधरकन्दराभिसर्पी प्रतिशब्दोऽपि हरेर्भिनत्ति नागान् (vasudhādharakandarābhisarpī pratiśabdo'pi harerbhinatti nāgān) V.1.18. °नगरम् (nagaram) the capital of Varuṇa.
Vasudhā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vasu and dhā (धा).
Vasudhā (वसुधा).—f.
(-dhā) The earth. E. vasu wealth, dhā to have or contain, affs. ka and ṭāp .
Vasudhā (वसुधा).—[vasu-dhā], f. The earth, [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] [distich] 16.
Vasudhā (वसुधा).—[adjective] yielding good, liberal. [feminine] the earth, land.
1) Vasudhā (वसुधा):—[=vasu-dhā] [from vasu > vas] mfn. producing wealth, liberal (-tama mfn., -tara mfn. more or most l°), [Atharva-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Taittirīya-saṃhitā]
2) [v.s. ...] f. the earth
3) [v.s. ...] a country, kingdom, [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.
4) [v.s. ...] the ground, soil, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]
5) [v.s. ...] earth (as a material), [Rāmāyaṇa]
6) [v.s. ...] Name of Lakṣmī, [Viṣṇu-smṛti, viṣṇu-sūtra, vaiṣṇava-dharma-śāstra]
7) [v.s. ...] an anapaest, [Piṅgala Scholiast, i.e. halāyudha]
Vasudhā (वसुधा):—(dhā) 1. f. The earth.
Vasudhā (वसुधा):—
1) adj. oxyt. Güter schaffend, freigebig: tama [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 27, 15.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 4, 1, 8,] [?2; vgl. Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5, 27, 6 (Prātiśākha zum Atharvaveda 4, 45).] —
2) f. a) die Erde; Land, Reich [Amarakoṣa 2, 1, 3.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 935.] [Halāyudha 2, 1.] [Mahābhārata 3, 2238.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 3, 38] (tale) . [2, 34, 41. 37, 27.] [Śākuntala 192.] [Spr. 203. 484. 1886.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 2, 7, 9.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 27, 2. 32, 3. 54, 2.] bhuktvā samyagvasudhām so v. a. regiert habend [69, 19.] śāsti vasudhām [BṚH. 11, 8.] rājye sāraṃ vasudhā vasudhāyāmapi puram [Spr. 2624. 4250. 4721.] ruddhavasudhānmlecchān [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 115.] magadhadeśe dharmāraṇyasaṃnihitavasudhāyām Gegend [Hitopadeśa 49, 9. fg.] gahanavasudhāḥ Gegenden [Rājataraṅgiṇī 2, 164.] vasudhāgama Ertrag vom Boden [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 72, 6.] kṣetra die Erde des Feldes [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 4, 17.] samīkṣya vasudhāṃ caret Erdboden [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 6, 68.] reṇu [Mahābhārata 1, 6022.] [Meghadūta 43.] talāt [Śākuntala 25.] tale [Kathāsaritsāgara 43, 123.] — b) Anapaest (was das Wort vasudhā ist) [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 217.]
Vasudhā (वसुधा) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vasuhā.
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.
Nepali dictionary
Vasudhā (वसुधा):—n. the earth;
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.
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