Vishvasakshin, Viśvasākṣin, Viśvasākṣī, Vishvasakshi, Vishva-sakshin: 4 definitions
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Vishvasakshin means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.
The Sanskrit terms Viśvasākṣin and Viśvasākṣī can be transliterated into English as Visvasaksin or Vishvasakshin or Visvasaksi or Vishvasakshi, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Source: Wikisource: Ashtavakra GitaViśvasākṣī (विश्वसाक्षी) refers to the “witness of everything” and is used to describe the Ātman (one’s own self), according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[...] For liberation know yourself as consisting of consciousness, the witness (sākṣī) of these [five elements]. [...] You are unattached and formless, the witness of everything (viśvasākṣī)—so be happy [asaṅgo'si nirākāro viśvasākṣī sukhī bhava]. Righteousness and unrighteousness, pleasure and pain are purely of the mind and are no concern of yours. You are neither the doer nor the reaper of the consequences, so you are always free. You are the one witness of everything, and are always totally free. The cause of your bondage is that you see the witness as something other than this. [...]”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English DictionaryViśvasākṣī (विश्वसाक्षी).—a S That surveys the universe.
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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryViśvasākṣin (विश्वसाक्षिन्):—[=viśva-sākṣin] [from viśva] mfn. all-seeing, [Prabodha-candrodaya]
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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.
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