Vyabhicara, Vyabhicāra, Vyabhīcāra: 16 definitions
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In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार).—lit. deviation or discrepancy; irregularity re: the application of a rule; cf.संज्ञाव्यभिचारार्थश्चकारः (saṃjñāvyabhicārārthaścakāraḥ) Kas.on P. III.3.19; cf.also.बहुलग्रहणंष्याभिचारार्थम् । प्रवाहिका, विचर्चिका । न च भवति । शिरोतर्तिः (bahulagrahaṇaṃṣyābhicārārtham | pravāhikā, vicarcikā | na ca bhavati | śirotartiḥ); Kas. on P. III.3.108.
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.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार) refers to “going astray”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.54 (“Description of the duties of the chaste wife”).—Accordingly, as a Brahmin lady said to Pārvatī: “[...] O gentle lady, the chaste ladies can be divided into four classes. Even when they are remembered they dispel sins. The divisions comprise of the superior etc. They are superior, middling, inferior (nikṛṣṭā) and very inferior. I shall explain their characteristics. Listen with attention. [...] O Pārvatī, she who ponders over her duty mentally and desists from going astray (vyabhicāra) is inferior among the chaste. Of course she is pure in conduct. [...]”.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार).—m (S) Deviation from the common rule, irregularity, anomalousness. 2 Deviousness of course or practice; dissoluteness, errancy, aberration &c. 3 Hence, popularly, Adultery.
vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार).—m Anomalousness. Errancy. Adultery.
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
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार) or Vyabhīcāra (व्यभीचार).—
1) Going away from, deviation, leaving the right course, following improper courses; मन्त्रज्ञमव्यस- निनं व्यभिचारववर्जितम् (mantrajñamavyasa- ninaṃ vyabhicāravavarjitam) H.3.16; मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते (māṃ ca yo'vyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena sevate) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 14.26;
2) Transgression, violation; व्यभिचारेण वर्णानाम् (vyabhicāreṇa varṇānām) (... jāyante varṇasaṃkarāḥ) Manusmṛti 1.24.
3) Error, crime, sin.
4) Separableness.
5) Infidelity, faithlessness (of a wife or husband), unchastity; व्यभिचारात्तु भर्तुः स्त्री लोके प्राप्नोति गर्ह्यताम् (vyabhicārāttu bhartuḥ strī loke prāpnoti garhyatām) Manusmṛti 5.164; वाङ्मनःकर्मभिः पत्यौ व्यभिचारो यथा न मे (vāṅmanaḥkarmabhiḥ patyau vyabhicāro yathā na me) R.15.81; Y.1.72.
6) An anomaly, irregularity, exception (to a rule).
7) (In logic) A fallacious hetu, the presence of the hetu without the sādhya; हेतोः साध्याभाववद्वृत्तित्वं व्यभिचारः (hetoḥ sādhyābhāvavadvṛttitvaṃ vyabhicāraḥ) Tarka. K.
8) Absence (abhāva); अन्योऽन्यतोऽस्मिन् व्यभिचारतो मृषा नित्ये परे ब्रह्मणि केवले शिवे (anyo'nyato'smin vyabhicārato mṛṣā nitye pare brahmaṇi kevale śive) A. Rām.7.5.32.
Derivable forms: vyabhicāraḥ (व्यभिचारः), vyabhīcāraḥ (व्यभीचारः).
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Vyabhīcāra (व्यभीचार).—
1) Transgression, offence.
2) Change, alteration.
Derivable forms: vyabhīcāraḥ (व्यभीचारः).
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार).—m.
(-raḥ) 1. Following improper courses, doing what is prohibited or wicked. 2. Erring, straying, (literally or figuratively.) 3. Wandering from an argument, a fallacious Hetu, one without the Sadhya, (in logic.) 4. Infidelity of a husband or wife. E. vi and abhi before car to go, aff. ghañ .
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार).—i. e. vi-abhi -cār + a, m. 1. Going astray, erring (literally and figurat.) 2. The presence of the hetu without the sādhya, Bhā- ṣāp. 136. 3. Following improper courses. 4. Crime, vice, sin, [Hitopadeśa] iii. [distich] 16; Mahābhārata 1, 912. 5. Infidelity of a wife, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 10, 164.
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार).—[masculine] going asunder or astray, failure; offence, going beyond, transgressing, sin, crime, [especially] adultery (of a wife).
1) Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार):—[=vy-abhicāra] [from vyabhi-car] m. going apart or astray, deviating, not falling or fitting together, being separated or isolated, [Kapila; Bhāṣāpariccheda] etc. (cf. a-vy)
2) [v.s. ...] trespass, transgression, crime, vice, sin ([especially] infidelity of a wife), [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] violation, disturbance, confusion, [Manu-smṛti x, 24 etc.]
4) [v.s. ...] change, mutation (in a-vy-abhicāra mfn.), [Bhagavad-gītā]
5) [v.s. ...] (in [philosophy]) wandering from an argument, erroneous or fallacious reasoning, the presence of the hetu (q.v.) without the sādhya (q.v.), [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]
6) [v.s. ...] (in gram.) deviation from or exception to a rule, irregularity, anomaly, [ib.]
7) Vyabhīcāra (व्यभीचार):—[=vy-abhīcāra] [from vyabhi-car] m. transgression, offence, [Mahābhārata]
8) [v.s. ...] change, alteration, [ib.]
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार):—[vyabhi-cāra] (raḥ) 1. m. Following improper courses; erring; adultery.
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार):—(wie eben) m.
1) das Auseinandergehen, Nichtzusammenfallen, Nichtzusammentreffen, Fehlgehen: ubhayavyabhicārāt [Kapila 1, 40.] na ca ghaṭādau vyabhicāraḥ Comm. zu [34.] [Bhāṣāpariccheda 47.] [Sāhityadarpana 10, 19.] kāla Comm. zu [Prātiśākhya zur Taittirīyasaṃhitā 1, 33.] satyatvā Comm. zu [Jaimini 1, 1, 4.] [Bhāṣāpariccheda 136.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 675.] sa adj. (hetvābhāsa) [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 7, 289.] nirākāṅkṣayo rājapadapuruṣapadayorvyabhicārāt so v. a. weil die Worte rājan und puruṣa Nichts mit einander zu thun haben [KUSUM. 34, 3.] a das Zusammenfallen mit etwas Anderem; das Nichtfehlgehen, Unumgänglichkeit, absolute Nothwendigkeit [KAṆ. 3, 2, 18. 4, 1, 10.] [Kapila 2, 41.] ijupadhasya sarvasya halantatvāvyabhicārāt so v. a. da jede (Wurzel), die einen ic genannten Vocal zum vorletzten Buchstaben hat, nothwendig consonantisch auslauten muss, [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 8, 4, 31, Scholiast] svasattāyāṃ pratītyavyabhicārataḥ [Sāhityadarpana 51.] niyogena = avyabhicāreṇa unter allen Umständen, durchaus [Kāśikīvṛtti] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 4, 66.] avyabhicārāt dass. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 7, 3, 47, Scholiast] —
2) Fehltritt, Vergehen (insbes. in geschlechtlicher Beziehung und hier wiederum insbes. von Seiten des Weibes): vyabhicārāttu bhartuḥ strī loke prāpnoti garhyatām durch Untreue gegen den Gatten [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 164] [?= 9, 30. 21.] anyonyasyāvyabhicāraḥ gegenseitige eheliche Treue [?101. Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch.1,72. Mahābhārata.3,11078 (S. 572). Harivaṃśa 4623. fg. 9945: Oxforder Handschriften 277,b,8.] vāṅnanaḥkarmabhiḥ patyau vyabhicāro yathā na me [Raghuvaṃśa 15, 81.] yā tu vyabhicārārthaṃ kulānyaṭati um Unzucht zu treiben [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 127, Scholiast] naptari kṛt [Rājataraṅgiṇī 6, 310.] vyabhicāro tra ko mama Vergehen [Mahābhārata 1, 912. 13, 2387.] [Harivaṃśa 909. 959.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 1, 35, 32.] vivarjita (ein Minister) [Spr. 5338.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 1, 20. 16, 5. 10, 47, 60.] tadvyabhicāra ein Vergehen gegen ihn (= īśvaraviyoga Comm.) [4, 28, 64.] —
3) Wechsel, Wandel: avyabhicāreṇa bhaktiyogena so v. a. unwandelbar [Bhagavadgītā 14, 26.] —
4) Uebertretung, Verletzung, Eingriff in: varṇānām [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 10, 24.] dharmasyāvyabhicārārtham [8, 122.] —
5) das Hinausgehen über, Ueberschreiten: cakāraḥ saṃjñāvyabhicārārthaḥ [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 3, 19, Scholiast] bahulagrahaṇaṃ sarvopādhivyabhicārārtham [?2, 1, 32, Scholiast Siddhāntakaumudī zu 3, 3, 113.] —
6) bhāva [Oxforder Handschriften 213, No. 506] fehlerhaft für vyabhicāribhāva . — Vgl. vyabhīcāra .
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Vyabhīcāra (व्यभीचार):—(von car mit vyabhi) m.
1) Fehltritt, Vergehen: (puruṣaiḥ) ahāryairavyabhīcāraiḥ sich Nichts zu Schulden kommen lassend [Mahābhārata 12, 3144.] —
2) Wechsel, Wandel: na te buddhivyabhīcāramupalapsyanti (so ed. Bomb.) [Mahābhārata 7, 3070.] — Vgl. vyabhicāra .
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vahicāra.
Vyabhicāra (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 不定 [bù dìng]: “indeterminate”.
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
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार) [Also spelled vyabhichar]:—(nm) fornication, wenching; lewdness, debauchery; adultery; ~[riṇī] fast/lewd (woman), wanton woman; ~[ritā] debauchery, lewdness; adultery; ~[rī] a debauchee; an adulterer; lewd, libertine; •[bhāva] a transitory mental (also, in some cases physical) state (such states number thirty-four according to Indian poeticians).
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Kannada-English dictionary
Vyabhicāra (ವ್ಯಭಿಚಾರ):—
1) [noun] the act of turning aside from the right, moral course or doctrine; transgression.
2) [noun] the tendency towards excessive or unrestrained sexual enjoyment; lewdness; lasciviousness.
3) [noun] (log.) wandering from an argument; erroneous or fallacious reasoning.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vyabhicāra (व्यभिचार):—n. 1. deviation; following improper courses; 2. transgression; violation; 3. error; crime; 4. separability; 5. infidelity; unchastity; 6. anomaly; exception; 7. adultery;
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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