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Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Vidhvasta (विध्वस्त) refers to “having perished”, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] Mind and breath always combine like water and milk, and [their] activity is similar. Therefore, as long as there is mind, there is activity of breath, and as long as there is breath, there is activity of mind. In that case, when one disappears, the other disappears and when one is active, the other is active. And when both are unimpaired, there is awareness of all the sense faculties. When both have perished (vidhvasta), there is the attainment of the state of liberation”.

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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).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

vidhvasta (विध्वस्त).—p Broken; destroyed.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vidhvasta (विध्वस्त).—p. p.

1) Ruined, destroyed; दृश्यते मित्रविध्वस्तः कार्याद्वैरिप्ररक्षितः (dṛśyate mitravidhvastaḥ kāryādvairiprarakṣitaḥ) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 2.113.

2) Scattered about, tossed up.

3) Obscured, darkened.

4) Eclipsed.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vidhvasta (विध्वस्त).—f.

(-stā) Adj. 1. Ruined, destroyed. 2. Obscured, darkened. 3. Tossed up.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vidhvasta (विध्वस्त).—[adjective] raised (dust); decayed, perished, destroyed, lost.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Vidhvasta (विध्वस्त):—[=vi-dhvasta] [from vi-dhvas] mfn. fallen asunder, fallen to pieces, dispersed, ruined, destroyed, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] whirled up (as dust), [Rāmāyaṇa]

3) [v.s. ...] (in [astronomy]) darkened obscured, eclipsed, [Sūryasiddhānta]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Vidhvasta (विध्वस्त) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Viddhaṃsiya, Viddhattha.

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Vidhvasta in German

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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

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Vidhvasta (ವಿಧ್ವಸ್ತ):—

1) [adjective] scattered; dispersed; strewn.

2) [adjective] destroyed; demolished; ruined.

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Vidhvasta (ವಿಧ್ವಸ್ತ):—[noun] the state of being destroyed.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Dhvasta, Vi.

Starts with: Vidhvastakavaca, Vidhvastanagarashrama, Vidhvastaparaguna, Vidhvastata, Vidhvastavipanapana.

Ends with: Parividhvasta, Pravidhvasta.

Full-text: Vidhvastata, Vidhvastakavaca, Vidhvastanagarashrama, Vidhvastaparaguna, Vidhvastavipanapana, Pravidhvasta, Visrastacetas, Vidhvamsita, Viddhamsiya, Viddhattha, Dhvams, Lul.

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