Vitatha: 23 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Vitatha (वितथ):—Another name for Bharadvāja (illicit son of Bṛhaspati and Manmatā). Because Bharadvāja was delivered (to Bharata) by the Marut demigods, he was known as Vitatha. He had a son who was named Manyu. (see Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.21.1)
Vitatha (वितथ).—Another name of hermit Dīrghatamas. This Vitatha was the foster-son of Bharata. (For further details see under Bharata 1 and Dīrghatamas).
1a) Vitatha (वितथ).—A name for Bharadvāja, after his adoption by Bharata: father of Manyu.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 49. 32; Vāyu-purāṇa 99. 156; Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 19. 19. Bhāgavata-purāṇa IX. 21. 1.
1b) A god to be worshipped in house building;1 before building a palace.2
Vitatha (वितथ) is a name mentioned in the Mahābhārata (cf. I.89.20) and represents one of the many proper names used for people and places. Note: The Mahābhārata (mentioning Vitatha) is a Sanskrit epic poem consisting of 100,000 ślokas (metrical verses) and is over 2000 years old.
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)
Vitatha (वितथ) refers to one of the 53 gods to be worshipped in the southern quarter and given pāyasa (rice boiled in milk) according to the Vāstuyāga rite in Śaktism (cf. Śāradātilaka-tantra III-V). The worship of these 53 gods happens after assigning them to one of the 64 compartment while constructing a Balimaṇḍapa. Vāstu is the name of a prodigious demon, who was killed by 53 gods (e.g., Vitatha).
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.
Vastushastra (architecture)
Vitatha (वितथ) refers to one of the deities to be installed in the ground plan for the construction of houses, according to the Bṛhatkālottara, chapter 112 (the vāstuyāga-paṭala).—The plan for the construction is always in the form of a square. That square is divided into a grid of cells (padas). [...] Once these padas have been laid out, deities [e.g., Vitatha] are installed in them. In the most common pattern 45 deities are installed.
Vitatha as a doorway deity is associated with the Nakṣatra called Revatī and the consequence is duḥkha. [...] The Mayasaṃgraha (verse 5.156-187) describes a design for a 9-by-9-part pura, a residential complex for a community and its lead figure. [...] This record lists a place for music a water tank at Vitatha.
Vitatha (वितथ) is the presiding deity the building-plot associated with the objects (1) Manaḥśila and (2) Red arsenic, as discussed in the thesis entitled “concept of ritual deposit of Khmer temples in northeastern Thailand from 10th-13th century A.D.” by Naiyana Munparn.—(Also see: Acharya, Architecture of Mānasāra, 111).—Note: Vitatha is denoted in the Thai language as วิตถะ (wittha).
Vastushastra (वास्तुशास्त्र, vāstuśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science (shastra) of architecture (vastu), dealing with topics such architecture, sculpture, town-building, fort building and various other constructions. Vastu also deals with the philosophy of the architectural relation with the cosmic universe.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
vitatha : (adj.) false; untrue. (nt.) untruth.
Vitatha, (adj.) (vi+tatha; cp. Epic & Class. Sk. vitatha) untrue; nt. untruth D. II, 73 (na hi Tathāgatā vitathaṃ bhaṇanti); Sn. 9 sq.; Vv 5315 (=atatha, musā ti attho VvA. 240); J. V, 112; VI, 207; Ps. 104; DA. I, 62.—avitatha true S. II, 26; V, 430; Miln. 184; Sdhp. 530; DA. I, 65. (Page 620)
vitatha (ဝိတထ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vi+tatha．natthi kathaṃ saccamatrāti vitathaṃ．ṭī．126．sūci．vitathā+a．vigataṃ tathāsaccaṃ yasmāti vitathaṃ,micchā．amaraṭī,1,21．vitatha-saṃ．vitatha-prā,addhamāgadhī．]
[ဝိ+တထ။ နတ္ထိ ကထံ သစ္စမတြာတိ ဝိတထံ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၁၂၆။ သူစိ။ ဝိတထာ+အ။ ဝိဂတံ တထာသစ္စံ ယသ္မာတိ ဝိတထံ၊ မိစ္ဆာ။ အမရဋီ၊၁၊၂၁။ ဝိတထ-သံ။ ဝိတထ-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
vitatha—
(Burmese text): (၁) ချွတ်ယွင်း-ဖောက်ပြန်-မဟုတ်-မမှန်-မှားယွင်းသော။ (၂) ဖောက်ပြန်-ပျက်စီး-သော။ (၃) ဟုတ်မှန်သော သဘော-မှကင်း-မရှိ-သော။ (၄) ချွတ်ယွင်း-ဖောက်ပြန်-မဟုတ်-မမှန်-မှားယွင်း-ခြင်း။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Incorrect - Deviation - Not - Wrong - Mistaken. (2) Deviated - Broken. (3) Correct - Principle - Lacking - Not. (4) Incorrect - Deviation - Not - Wrong - Mistaken - Action.
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
vitatha (वितथ).—a S False, untrue: also unreal, unsubstantial, not extant or subsisting.
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
Vitatha (वितथ).—a.
1) Untrue, false; आजन्मनो न भवता वितथं किलोक्तम् (ājanmano na bhavatā vitathaṃ kiloktam) Ve.3.13;5.41; R.9.8.
2) Vain, futile; as in वितथप्रयत्न (vitathaprayatna) R.2.42.
Vītatha (वीतथ).—adj. (m.c. for Sanskrit vi°), false: satya-vī°-pa-theṣu Gaṇḍavyūha 55.3 (verse).
Vitatha (वितथ).—mfn.
(-thaḥ-thā-thaṃ) False, untrue, vain, futile. E. vi implying reverse, tathya true, ac aff., and the semivowel rejected; or vi before, tam to desire, vathan aff., and ma rejected; also vitathya f.
(-thyā)
Vitatha (वितथ).—[adjective] not so, false, in vain; [abstract] tā [feminine]
1) Vitatha (वितथ):—[=vi-tatha] [from vi] a See sub voce
2) [=vi-tatha] b mf(ā)n. ([from] vi + tathā, not so) untrue, false, incorrect, unreal, vain, futile ([instrumental case] ‘falsely’; thaṃ-√kṛ, ‘to revoke, annul’), [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] free from ([ablative]), [Āpastamba]
4) [v.s. ...] m. Name of Bharad-vāja, [Harivaṃśa]
5) [v.s. ...] of a [particular] class of domestic deities, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā; Hemādri’s Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi]
Vitatha (वितथ):—[vi-tatha] (thaḥ-thā-thaṃ) a. False.
Vitatha (वितथ):—(2. vi + tathā)
1) adj. (f. ā) a) unwahr, falsch [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 5, 22. 3, 5, 15.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 265.] [Halāyudha 1, 144.] yaḥ praśnaṃ vitathaṃ brūyāt [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 94.] sākṣya [118.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 53.] pratijñā [Mahābhārata 1, 6842.] [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 85, 9.] pramāṇa [2, 116, 47.] vāc [Raghuvaṃśa 9, 8.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 15, 22.] prauḍhi [Spr. (II) 1162.] vādin Unwahrheit redend [Kathāsaritsāgara 26, 96. 31, 83.] vitathābhiniveśa [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 12, 5.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 134.] vitathena falsch [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 273.] a (s. auch bes.) nicht unwahr, ganz wahr, richtig [Mahābhārata 12, 4010.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 31, 15.] [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 26. 15, 95.] [Mālavikāgnimitra 9, 16.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 1, 2.] vārttā (so v. a. ehrlich) [19, 11.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 3, 17. 8, 17, 22.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 15, 81.] tadavitathamavādīryanmama priyeti [Sāhityadarpana 43, 9.] ityavitathaṃ vadan [Kathāsaritsāgara 24, 162.] saṃskṛtaprabhāṣin richtig [Suśruta 2, 532, 4.] ājñāmavitathāṃ kar so v. a. erfüllen [Spr. 745, v. l.] avitathena der Wahrheit gemäss [Mahābhārata 5 1692.] avitatham dass. [3, 11946.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 2, 37.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 28, 191.] — b) unnütz, vergeblich: bāṇa [Mahābhārata 8, 1062.] putrajanman [Harivaṃśa 1730.] āśā [Rāmāyaṇa.2, 75, 35.] prayatna [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 42. 7, 14.] icchā [Kathāsaritsāgara 45, 398.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 10, 29. 7, 2, 48. 9, 20, 35. 39.] tadvitathaṃ kuryāt so v. a. annulliren [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 83.] a nicht vergeblich: kriya (zu schreiben tathāvi) [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 47, 5.] avitathehita [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 18, 6. 8, 7, 8.] ativitatha [Gītagovinda 7, 5.] —
2) m. a) Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Bharadvāja [Harivaṃśa 1730. fgg.] Beiname Bharadvāja’s [Viṣṇupurāṇa 449.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 21, 1.] — b) Name eines mythischen Wesens, dem bei der Eintheilung eines Hauses in Felder ein best. Platz gehört, [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 53, 44. 53. 63.]
Vitatha (वितथ) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vitaha.
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
Vitatha (वितथ):—(a) false, untrue.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Vitatha (ವಿತಥ):—
1) [adjective] not true; false; incorrect or mistaken.
2) [adjective] that is or is proved to be, useless or worthless.
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Vitatha (ವಿತಥ):—
1) [noun] a false statement made deliberately to deceive another or others.
2) [noun] the quality of being useless, worthless.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vitatha (वितथ):—adj. 1. untrue; false; 2. vain; futile;
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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Partial matches (+0): Vi, Tatha.
Starts with (+0): Vitathabhinivesha, Vitathabhiniveshavat, Vitathadarshana, Vitathamaryada, Vitathapanha, Vitathaparikalpa, Vitathaprayatna, Vitathasamjnin, Vitathasanni, Vitathata, Vitathavac, Vitathavadi, Vitathavadin, Vitathavatthu, Vitathaya, Vitathayati.
Full-text (+57): Avitatha, Vitathata, Vitathamaryada, Vitathavadin, Avitatham, Vitathavac, Vitathaprayatna, Vitathavatthu, Vaitathya, Manyu, Xu wang, Garga, Vitathadarshana, Vitathya, Vitathaya, Vitathasamjnin, Avitathakriya, Vitathabhiniveshavat, Vitathikri, Fei zhen shi.
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Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika (by R. Balasubramanian)
Verse 2.64 < [Book 2 - Brahmavallī]
International Ayurvedic Medical Journal
Virudham vitatham bhavet” – a review of prophylactic measures to nullify effects of incompatible food combinations < [2018, Issue III, march,]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
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Page 116 < [Hindi-Bengali-English Volume 3]
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 9.73 < [Section V - Repudiation of the Betrothed Maiden]
Verse 8.94 < [Section XII - Exhortation and Examination of Witnesses]
Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Chapter XIX - Dynasty of Puru < [Book IV]
Chapter VIII - Lineage of Ayu and origin of Dhanvantari < [Book IV]
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Page 439 < [Volume 21 (1918)]