Viratta, Vi-raja-ta, Vi-ranja-ne-ta, Vi-ranja-ta, Vīrajita, Virājitā, Virajita, Virājita: 22 definitions
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Viratta means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit. 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.
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In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Vīrajita (वीरजित) is the son of Saṅgrāmavarṣa, as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 54. Accordingly, as Samaratuṅga said to Naravāhanadatta“... prince, my relation Saṅgrāmavarṣa has ravaged my territory, with the help of his four sons, Vīrajita, and the others. So I will go myself and bring them all five here as prisoners. Let my lord know this”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Saṅgrāmavarṣa, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.
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’.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Virājita (विराजित) refers to “that which has a comely appearance”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.12.—Accordingly, after Himācala (i.e., Himālaya) brought his daughter (Pārvatī) before Śiva: “Then Śiva looked at her in the first flush of her youth. [...] Her two breasts resembling lotus-buds were stout, plump and firm. Her waist was slender and the curly locks of her hair shone well. Her feet resembled the land-lotus and were comely in appearance [i.e., virājita]. She was competent to shake the minds of even the sages deeply engrossed in meditation, even at the very sight. She was a crest-jewel of all the maidens in the world”.
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.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Virājita (विराजित) refers to “shining”, according to sources such as the Kulakaulinīmata and Kumārikākhaṇḍa of the Manthānabhairavatantra.—Accordingly, “The goddess in the middle is (red) like vermillion and the Javā and Bandhūka flower. She is charming and beautiful. Auspicious, she holds a flower bow and arrows, noose and goad. Her topknot is red and she holds a bowl and a citron. She is joyful with the bliss of wine. She wears red clothes and has long red eyes. (Her) lips are (like) a flaming red lotus and she shines with red flowers (raktapuṣpa-virājita). She is the mother (who makes people) passionate with attachment and she colours this universe (with desire). Kāma, along with spring, resides in the Nanda forest. The (spring) breezes are close to him, in front and behind”.
Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)
Virājita (विराजित) refers to “handsome-looking birds”, according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, [while discussing the treatment of hawks]: “Finding the birds healthy and well-developed by the use of the tonic medicines mentioned above, and when they look beautiful with their fresh-grown feathers and handsome (virājita) with their wings which shine like sapphire, when they look charming with feathers on their breast looking like pearls, [...] their owner should then call them on auspicious day. [...]”.
This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Virājitā (विराजिता) refers to “being resplendent” (with a halo of fire), according to the 10th-century Ḍākārṇava-tantra: one of the last Tibetan Tantric scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition consisting of 51 chapters.—Accordingly: [while explaining the body circle (kāyacakra)]: “[...] Sixteen [offerings] are performed by goddesses—[this is] the offering to the four layers [...] Outside, there are eight charnel grounds and gatekeepers in order. [...] The color and other [physical features] are as before. [Every goddess is] very violent, with their mouth widely open, and is resplendent (virājitā) with a halo of fire. [...]”.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
viratta : (pp. of virajjati) detached oneself; showed lack of interest in; dispassioned; unattached to.
virājita : (pp. of virājati) shone.
Viratta, (pp. of virajjati) dispassioned, free from passion, detached, unattached to, displeased with (Loc.) S. III, 45 (rūpadhātuyā cittaṃ virattaṃ vimuttaṃ); Sn. 204 (chandarāga°), 235 (°citta āyatike bhavasmiṃ); A. V, 3, 313; J. V, 233 (mayi); Sdhp. 613. (Page 633)
1) Virājita, 2 (pp. of Caus. of virājati) shining out, resplendent J. II, 33 (mora ... suratta-rāji-virājita here perhaps =streaked?). Cp. virāgita. (Page 634)
2) Virājita, 1 (pp. of virājeti) cleansed, discarded as rāga, given up S. IV, 158 (dosa); J. III, 404 (=pahīna C.). (Page 634)
1) viratta (ဝိရတ္တ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vi+ranja+ṇe+ta]
[ဝိ+ရန္ဇ+ဏေ+တ]
2) viratta (ဝိရတ္တ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vi+ranja+ta．nirutti．73va．viratta-saṃ．viratta-prā,addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝိ+ရန္ဇ+တ။နိရုတ္တိ။၇၃ဝ။ဝိရတ္တ-သံ။ ဝိရတ္တ-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
3) virājita (ဝိရာဇိတ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vi+ranja+ṇe+ta．nīti,dhātu．224．virañjita-saṃ．]
[ဝိ+ရန္ဇ+ဏေ+တ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာတု။ ၂၂၄။ ဝိရဉ္ဇိတ-သံ။]
virājita (ဝိရာဇိတ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vi+rāja+ta．nīti,dhātu．45．virājita-saṃ．virāia-prā．virāita-addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝိ+ရာဇ+တ။ နီတိ၊ ဓာတု။ ၄၅။ ဝိရာဇိတ-သံ။ ဝိရာဣအ-ပြာ။ ဝိရာဣတ-အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) viratta—
(Burmese text): (၁) တပ်စွန်း-ချစ်ခင်-နှစ်သက်-တပ်မက်-စွဲလမ်း-ခြင်း-ကင်း-မရှိ-သော။ (၂)ကင်းပျောက်-ပျက်စီး-သော။(၃) တပ်စွန်း-ချစ်ခင်-နှစ်သက်-တပ်မက်-စွဲလမ်း-ခြင်းကင်းရာ(ကာလ)။(၄) ကျော်လွန်-အပ်-ပြီးသော။(၅) စက်ဆုပ်အပ်ပြီးသော။မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Free from attachment, fondness, affection, infatuation, and obsession. (2) Absent, damaged, or destroyed. (3) The period free from attachment, fondness, affection, infatuation, and obsession. (4) Having surpassed or transcended. (5) Having completed the task. Please refer to the original.
2) viratta—
(Burmese text): ကင်းစေအပ်ပြီးသော။အောက်ပုဒ်ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Please check the subparagraph after the exemption.
1) virājita—
(Burmese text): ထွန်းလင်း-တောက်ပ-တင့်တယ်-စမ္ပာယ်-သော။
(Auto-Translation): Bright - shining - strong - elegant - beautiful.
2) virājita—
(Burmese text): (က) ကင်းကွာ-ကင်းပြတ်-ကင်းပျောက်-ချုပ်ငြိမ်း-စေအပ်ပြီးသော။ (ခ) ပယ်-ပယ်စွန့်-ဖြတ်-ဖျက်ဆီး-အပ်ပြီးသော။
(Auto-Translation): (a) Clear-separate-cut-off-diminished and put in order. (b) Abolished-disposed of-cut-destroyed and put in order.
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
virājita (विराजित).—a Glaring with splendour; fine.
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
Virājita (विराजित).—p. p.
1) Irradiated, illuminated.
2) Displayed, manifested.
Virājita (विराजित).—mfn.
(-taḥ-tā-taṃ) 1. Illuminated, irradicated, splendid. 2. Manifested, made visible. E. vi before rāj to shine, kta aff.
1) Virājita (विराजित):—[=vi-rājita] [from vi-rāja > vi-rāj] mfn. eminent, illustrious, brilliant, splendid, glorious, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature etc.]
2) Vīrajita (वीरजित):—[=vīra-jita] [from vīra > vīr] m. Name of a man, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
Virājita (विराजित):—[vi-rājita] (taḥ-tā-taṃ) p. Illuminated; splendid; manifested.
Vīrajita (वीरजित):—m. Nomen proprium eines Mannes [Kathāsaritsāgara 54, 138.]
Virājita (विराजित) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Virāia.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Viratta (विरत्त) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Virakta.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Virājita (ವಿರಾಜಿತ):—[adjective] shining brightly; brilliant; splendid.
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Virājita (ವಿರಾಜಿತ):—
1) [noun] that which is brilliant, splendid.
2) [noun] a man who looks very bright, brilliant.
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: Ranja, Jita, Rajita, Vira, Vi, Luo, Ne, Da, Rajata, Ta, Raja, Na.
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Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 322 < [Hindi-English-Nepali (1 volume)]
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Page 599 < [Bengali-Hindi-English, Volume 3]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 1.12.10 < [Chapter 12 - Description of Śrī Nanda’s Festival]
Verse 1.2.40 < [Chapter 2 - Description of the Abode of Śrī Goloka]
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Inscriptions of Orissa (Rajaguru) (by Shri Satyanarayana Rajguru)
Page 37 < [Volume 3, Part 1]
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Vaishnava Myths in the Puranas (by Kum. Geeta P. Kurandwad)
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