Vipina, Vipiṇa: 21 definitions
Introduction:
Vipina means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Hindi. 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.
Alternative spellings of this word include Vipin.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)
Vipina (विपिन) refers to “forest” according to the second chapter (dharaṇyādi-varga) of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). The Dharaṇyādi-varga covers the lands, soil, mountains, jungles [viz., Vipina] and vegetation’s relations between trees and plants and substances, with their various kinds.
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Vipina (विपिन) or Vipinagaja refers to “wild elephants”, according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 1, “on the origin of elephants”]: “[...] 4. There was an overlord of Aṅga, like unto the king of the gods, famed under the name of Romapāda. Once he was seated on a jeweled throne on the bank of the Ganges in the city of Campā, surrounded by his retinue, when some people reported to him that all the crops of grain, etc., were being destroyed by wild elephants (vipina-gaja) [vipinagajakṛtaṃ]. The king reflected: ‘Now what can I do?’”.
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.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Vipiṇa (विपिण, “forest”) is given as an example for “names derived from physical characteristics” (sarīra): a kind of rule when deriving personal names for men, mentioned in the Aṅgavijjā chapter 26. This chapter includes general rules to follow when deriving proper names. The Aṅgavijjā (mentioning vipiṇa) is an ancient treatise from the 3rd century CE dealing with physiognomic readings, bodily gestures and predictions and was written by a Jain ascetic in 9000 Prakrit stanzas.
Vipina (विपिन) refers to a “forest”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “Being frightened by the deceit of the breath, the living embryo of men that is taken hold of by the fanged enemy that is destruction goes out like a young doe in the forest (vipina—mṛgabālikeva vipine). O shameless one, if you are not able to protect this wretched [embryo] which is obtained gradually [by death] then you are not ashamed to delight in pleasures in this life”.
Synonyms: Vana.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
vipina : (nt.) a forest.
Vipina, (nt.) (cp. *Sk. vipina, Halāyudha 2, 55) wood, grove D. I, 248 (doubtful; vv. ll. vijina, vivada, vivana); Ap 51 (vv. ll. vivana, vicina; C. vivana & vipina); Dāvs. IV, 39; PvA. 81 (read vicitta!). (Page 627)
vipina (ဝိပိန) [(na) (န)]—
[vapa+ina．a-i-pru．vapantietthāti vipinaṃ,vanaṃ．ṇvādi．1va3．ṭī．537．vipinavasaṃ．viviṇa-prā．]
[ဝပ+ဣန။အ-ကိုဣ-ပြု။ဝပန္တိဧတ္ထာတိ ဝိပိနံ၊ ဝနံ။ဏွာဒိ။၁ဝ၃။ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၅၃၇။ဝိပိနဝသံ။ဝိဝိဏ-ပြာ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
vipina—
(Burmese text): (က)တော။ (ခ)အင်ကြင်းတော။
(Auto-Translation): (a) Forest. (b) Pine forest.
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
vipina (विपिन).—n S A wood or forest. Ex. tyācēṃ chēdāvayā ajñānavipina ||.
vipina (विपिन).—n A wood or forest.
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
Vipina (विपिन).—a. Thick, dense; अमुमतिविपिनं वेद दिग्व्यापिनम् (amumativipinaṃ veda digvyāpinam) Kirātārjunīya 5.18.
-nam [vap-inan hrasvaśca pṛṣo°; cf. Uṇādi-sūtra 2.52]
1) A wood, forest, grove, thicket; वृन्दावनविपिने ललितं वितनोतु शुभानि यशस्यम् (vṛndāvanavipine lalitaṃ vitanotu śubhāni yaśasyam) Gītagovinda 1; विपिनानि प्रकाशानि शक्तिमत्वाच्चकार सः (vipināni prakāśāni śaktimatvāccakāra saḥ) R.4.31; Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 9.2.
2) A multitude, quantity.
Vipina (विपिन).—n.
(-naṃ) A wood, a forest. E. vep to shake, Unadi aff. inan.
Vipina (विपिन).—n. A thicket, a forest, [Lassen, Anthologia Sanskritica.] 2. ed. 41, 4; a grove, [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] 57, 18; [Raghuvaṃśa, (ed. Stenzler.)] 4, 31.
Vipina (विपिन).—[neuter] wood.
1) Vipina (विपिन):—[from vip] a n. ‘stirring or waving ([scilicet] in the wind)’, a wood, forest, thicket, grove, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] a multitude, quantity, [Bālarāmāyaṇa]
3) b etc. See under √vip.
Vipina (विपिन):—(naṃ) 1. n. A wood, a forest.
Vipina (विपिन):—[Uṇādisūtra 2, 52.]
1) n. [Siddhāntakaumudī.249,a,8.] Wald [Amarakoṣa 2, 4, 1, 1.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1110.] [Halāyudha 2, 55.] [Mahābhārata 1, 2949. 5569. 3, 1511. 2730. 2960. 12424.] [Harivaṃśa 14611.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 47, 6.] [KĀM. NĪTIS. 14, 22.] [Raghuvaṃśa 4, 31. 9, 72.] [Vikramorvaśī 57, 18.] [Spr. 1442 (II). 4723.] [Gītagovinda 1, 33. 45.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 22, 137. 37, 57.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 73, 8] (vilāsa) . [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 6, 14. 4, 28, 47. 5, 2, 7. 7, 2, 50. 9, 10, 11.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 127, 5.] am Ende eines adj. comp. (f. ā): ati [Kirātārjunīya 5, 18.] suvipinā [Mahābhārata 3, 16235.] —
2) adj. dicht: vana [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 15, 23.]
Vipina (विपिन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Viviṇa.
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
Vipina (विपिन) [Also spelled vipin]:—(nm) a forest, jungle; ~[cara] forest-faring, living in/treading the forest; ~[vihārī] an epithet of Lord Krishna.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Vipina (ವಿಪಿನ):—[adjective] of or in a forest; sylvan.
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Vipina (ವಿಪಿನ):—
1) [noun] a thick growth of trees and underbrush covering an extensive tract of land; a forest.
2) [noun] a group of animals, things or people; a multitude.
3) [noun] a group of trees; a grove.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vipina (विपिन):—n. 1. a wood; forest; grove; thicket; 2. garden; orchard;
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Ina, Vapa.
Starts with (+0): Vipinabhuta, Vipinacara, Vipinacari, Vipinagaja, Vipinagga, Vipinakanana, Vipinam, Vipinatilaka, Vipinaukas, Vipinaukasa, Vipinay, Vipinaya, Vipinkas.
Full-text (+6): Vipinam, Vipinakanana, Vilasavipina, Vipinabhuta, Ativipina, Vipinacari, Vipinatilaka, Vipinagga, Phullavipina, Vipin, Suvipina, Vrindavanavipina, Shakrashanavipina, Vipinkas, Vipinaukas, Vivina, Vipinay, Vipinacara, Karmaci Gati, Sharira.
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 10.35 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
Text 7.35 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 319 < [Hindi-English-Nepali (1 volume)]
Page 585 < [Bengali-Hindi-English, Volume 3]
Page 64 < [Hindi-Gujarati-English Volume 3]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 2.16.16 < [Chapter 16 - The Worship of Tulasī]
Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)
Verse 4.5.12 < [Part 5 - Anger (raudra-rasa)]
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Page 182 < [Volume 15 (1913)]
Bhajana-Rahasya (by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura Mahasaya)