Visheshya, Viśēṣya, Viśeṣya: 14 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Viśēṣya and Viśeṣya can be transliterated into English as Visesya or Visheshya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Visheshy.
In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य).—Qualific and, substantive as opposed to an adjective (Viśeṣaṇa).
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य).—Substantive, as opposed to विशेषेण (viśeṣeṇa) adjective or qualifying; cf. भेदकं विशेषणम्,भेद्यं विशेष्यम् (bhedakaṃ viśeṣaṇam, bhedyaṃ viśeṣyam) Kāś. on P. II.1.57; cf. also विशेषणविशेष्यभावो विवक्षानिबन्धनः (viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyabhāvo vivakṣānibandhanaḥ) Kāś. on P.II.1.36.
Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.
In Jainism
Jain philosophy
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य) refers to the “subject”, as explained in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 12, ll 4-5]—the Jainas hold that dharmas are not absolutely other than the dharmin, otherwise, there could be no such relation between them as predicate (viśeṣana) and subject (viśeṣya) For, no two absolutely distinct realities (say a camel and a donkey) can be ever related as subject and predicate Further, if dharmas are absolutely distinct from the dharmin i.e. the substratum m which they inhere, there will be as many distinct entities m a dharmin as there are dharmas, since every dharmin has infinite dharmas.
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Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
viśēṣya (विशेष्य).—n S In grammar. That which is to be distinguished or designated; a noun, a substantive. 2 The subject of a predicate.
viśēṣya (विशेष्य).—n A noun; the subject of a predicate.
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
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य).—a.
1) To be distinguished.
2) Chief, superior; उपपन्नं हि यच्चेष्टा विशिष्येत विशेष्यया (upapannaṃ hi yacceṣṭā viśiṣyeta viśeṣyayā) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.237.12.
-ṣyam The word qualified or limited by an adjective, the object to be defined or particularized by another word; a noun; विशेष्यं नाभिधा गच्छेत् क्षीणशक्ति- र्विशेषणे (viśeṣyaṃ nābhidhā gacchet kṣīṇaśakti- rviśeṣaṇe) K. P.2.
2) A substantive, noun.
See also (synonyms): viśeṣaṇīya.
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य).—mfn.
(-ṣyaḥ-ṣyā-ṣyaṃ) 1. To be distinguished or discriminated. 2. Distinguishing, to be discriminated by. 3. Principal, primary, chief. m.
(-ṣyaḥ) A name, a substantive. n.
(-ṣyaṃ) The object of a predicate. E. vi before śiṣ to distinguish by its attributes, ṇyat aff.
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य).—[adjective] what is distinguished or specialized; [neuter] substantive, subject.
1) Viśeṣya (विशेष्य):—[=vi-śeṣya] [from vi-śiṣ] mfn. to be (or being) distinguished or qualified or particularized (See [compound])
2) [v.s. ...] n. (in gram.) the word to be ‘differenced’ or distinguished (from another word which is called vi-śeṣaṇa q.v.), a substantive, noun, the object or subject of a predicate, [Pāṇini; Tarkasaṃgraha; Vedāntasāra]
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य):—[(ṣyaḥ-ṣyaṃ)] 1. m. A noun. n. (In syntax) the object of a predicate. a That should be or is specified.
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य):—(vom caus. von śiṣ mit vi) adj. was unterschieden —, specialisirt wird; n. Substantiv, Subject [TARKAS. 26.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 62,19.] [Vedānta lecture No. 96. 98.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.2,1,57.8,1,74, Scholiast] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik.3,145.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.3,1] in der Unterschr. [Oxforder Handschriften 183,a,20. 191,b,27. 192,a,32.b, No. 437.] [KUSUM. 26,2. 3.] viśeṣyatā [25, 19.] viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyatā (das suff. gehört zu beiden Worten) [SARVADARŚANAS. 62, 19.] viśeṣyaka am Ende eines adj. comp. [KUSUM. 29, 19.] [WILSON,] [SĀṂKHYAK. S. 47.] [Bhāṣāpariccheda 134.]
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
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य) [Also spelled visheshy]:—(nm) that which is qualified; a noun with an adjective qualifying it, substantive.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Viśēṣya (ವಿಶೇಷ್ಯ):—
1) [adjective] special; exceptional; extraordinary.
2) [adjective] distrinctive; peculiar.
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Viśēṣya (ವಿಶೇಷ್ಯ):—[noun] (gram.) a noun that is modified by an adjective.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Viśeṣya (विशेष्य):—n. substantive; a noun with an adjective qualifying it;
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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