Vyaghata, Vyāghāta: 14 definitions
Introduction:
Vyaghata means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi. 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.
Alternative spellings of this word include Vyaghat.
In Hinduism
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Source: Shodhganga: Mankhaka a sanskrit literary genius (natya)Vyāghāta (व्याघात, “frustration”) refers to a type of Alaṃkāra (figure of speech).—If a certain thing, which is done by one man by a certain means, is undone by another by the same means, there is Vyāghāta or frustration.
Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
Kavyashastra (science of poetry)
Source: Shodhganga: The Kavyavilasa of Ciranjiva Bhattacarya (kavyashastra)Vyāghāta (व्याघात) refers to one of the 93 alaṃkāras (“figures of speech”) mentioned by Cirañjīva Bhaṭṭācārya (fl. 17th century) in his Kāvyavilāsa and is listed as one of the 89 arthālaṃkāras (figure of speech determined by the sense, as opposed to sound).—From Ruyyaka downwards almost all the rhetoricians have dealt with the figure vyāghāta. Mammaṭa and Viśvanātha have dealt with vyāghāta in a similar manner.
Cirañjīva defines vyāghāta as follows—“vyāghāto’nyakriyākārī kriyāmanyāṃ karoti cet”.—“When one thing use to produce and effect gives rise to another effect different from the previous one it is the figure vyāghāta”.
Example of the vyāghāta-alaṃkāra:—
vidhureva jagatsuśitalaṃ kurute svaiḥ kiranaiḥ sudhāmayaiḥ |
mayi paśya vidherviparyayaṃ sa yadebhirdahati pratikṣanam ||“The moon makes the world extremely cool with its nectarine rays. Behold the contradictory behavior of moon in my case; it burns me every moment with the same rays”.
Notes: Here the moon is known to produce cooling effect to everything but it has been described to produce a different effect that is burning. So it is an example of vyāghāta-alaṃkāra.
Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.
In Buddhism
Buddhist philosophy
Source: Google Books: A History of Indian Logic (Buddhist Philosophy)Vyāghāta (व्याघात) or Vyāghātapradarśana refers to “showing absurdity” and represents one of the various types of Hetvābhāsa (“fallacy”) (within a debate), according to Upāyakauśalyahṛdaya, an ancient work on the art of debate composed by Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna.—Hetvābhāsa (‘the fallacies’) signify reasons which are derived form an imperfect perception, inference, or comparison, or which deviate from the scripture. [...] Showing absurdity (vyāghāta-pradarśana), e.g., “the five objects are non-eternal, because they are apprehended by the senses: the four elements being also so apprehended are non-eternal. If you say so it will follow that a tortoise possesses hair and salt possesses smell, because they are apprehended by the mind: this is absurd”.
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Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryvyāghāta (व्याघात).—m S Interruption, stoppage, impeded state. 2 Impediment, hinderance, obstructing cause. 3 Striking or hitting; a stroke or blow. 4 The thirteenth of the astronomical yōga.
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryVyāghāta (व्याघात).—
1) Striking against.
2) A blow, stroke.
3) An impediment, obstacle.
4) Contradiction.
5) Disobedience; प्रथमं तावन्ममाज्ञाव्याघातः (prathamaṃ tāvanmamājñāvyāghātaḥ) Mu.3.
6) A figure of speech in which opposite effects are shown to be produced from the same cause or by the same agency; it is thus defined by Mammaṭa:-तद्यथा साधितं केनाप्यपरेण तदन्यथा । तथैव यद्विधीयेत स व्याघात इति स्मृतः (tadyathā sādhitaṃ kenāpyapareṇa tadanyathā | tathaiva yadvidhīyeta sa vyāghāta iti smṛtaḥ) || K. P.1; e. g. see Vb.1.2, or the quotation under विरूपाक्ष (virūpākṣa).
7) Decline, defeat; कामः स्त्रीरनुशयवानिव स्वपक्षव्याघातादिति (kāmaḥ strīranuśayavāniva svapakṣavyāghātāditi) Śiśupālavadha 8.61.
Derivable forms: vyāghātaḥ (व्याघातः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryVyāghāta (व्याघात).—m.
(-taḥ) 1. Obstacle, impediment. 2. Striking, beating. 3. Destroying, destruction. 4. Contradiction. 5. The thirteenth of the astronomical Yogas. 6. A tree, (Cassia fistula.) 7. A rhetorical figure, the production of two different effects from a similar cause or by similar agency. E. vi and āṅ before han to strike, aff. ghañ .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryVyāghāta (व्याघात).—i. e. vi-ā-han, [Causal.], + a, m. 1. Obstacle, [Hitopadeśa] ii. [distich] 4. 2. Striking. 3. Wounding, [Indralokāgamana] 5, 11. 4. Destroying. 5. The thirteenth of the astronomical [Yogasūtrāṇi, (ed. Allahabed, 1852-53.)]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryVyāghāta (व्याघात).—[masculine] stroke, blow, shot; agitation, confusion; shock, defeat; obstacle, hindrance.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Vyāghāta (व्याघात):—[=vy-ā-ghāta] a m. (√han) striking against, beating, wounding, a stroke, blow, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] a defeat, [Śiśupāla-vadha]
3) [v.s. ...] commotion, agitation, disturbance, [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa]
4) [v.s. ...] an obstacle, impediment, hindrance, [Rāmāyaṇa; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]
5) [v.s. ...] (in [philosophy]) contradiction, inconsistency of statement, [Śaṃkarācārya; Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]
6) [v.s. ...] (in [rhetoric]) a [particular] figure of speech (in which different or opposite effects are-shown to arise from the same cause or by the same agency e.g. ‘the god of love reduced to ashes by the eye [of Śiva] is brought to life again by the eye [of beautiful women]’), [Kāvyaprakāśa; Kuvalayānanda] etc.
7) [v.s. ...] (in [astronomy]) Name of the 13th Yoga, [Vāsavadattā]
8) [v.s. ...] Cassia Fistula, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
9) [=vy-āghāta] [from vyā-han] b etc. See p. 1036, col. 1.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryVyāghāta (व्याघात):—[vyā+ghāta] (taḥ) 1. m. Collision; obstacle; clashing; 13th yoga; figure of speech; Cassia fistula.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Vyāghāta (व्याघात) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vāghāya.
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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.
Hindi dictionary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryVyāghāta (व्याघात) [Also spelled vyaghat]:—(nm) interruption; hindrance, obstruction; contradiction; ~[taka/tī] contradictory; causing interruption/obstruction.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusVyāghāta (ವ್ಯಾಘಾತ):—
1) [noun] a stroke; a blow.
2) [noun] an inconsistent, contradictory or absurd statement; contradiction.
3) [noun] (rhet.) a figure of speech in which different or opposite effects are shown to arise from the same cause or agency.
4) [noun] (astrol.) a particular conjunction of the sun and the moon or stars that is considered as malignant.
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: Vy, Vya, Ghata, Aghata.
Starts with: Vyaghataka, Vyaghatay.
Ends with: Avyaghata, Nirvyaghata.
Full-text: Vyaghatin, Vyaghataka, Vyaghatima, Avyaghata, Vaghaya, Vyaghat, Viyakatam, Vipratipatti, Alamkara, Yoga, Vacyalankara, Virodha.
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 10.241 [Vyāghāta] < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
Text 10.242 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
Text 10.205 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
The backdrop of the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa (by Dhrubajit Sarma)
Part 5ad - Alaṃkāra (30): Vyāghāta or frustration < [Chapter III - Literary Assessment Of The Śrīkaṇṭhacarita]
Part 1 - Rīti or the style < [Chapter III - Literary Assessment Of The Śrīkaṇṭhacarita]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 4 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 3 - Tarka (ratiocination) < [Chapter XXVIII - Madhva Logic]
Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) (by Vijay K. Jain)
Verse 2.27 - Movement without a bend (avigraha) < [Chapter 2 - Category of the Living]
Verse 2.49 - The projectable body (āhāraka) < [Chapter 2 - Category of the Living]
Verse 2.29 - Time required for movement without bend < [Chapter 2 - Category of the Living]
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Appendix 2 - The astronomical definition of Yoga < [Appendices]
Alamkaras mentioned by Vamana (by Pratim Bhattacharya)
1-2: The number of Alaṃkāras (poetic figures) mentioned < [Chapter 5 - A Comparative study of the different alaṃkāras mentioned by Vāmana]
3: The classification of poetic figures < [Chapter 5 - A Comparative study of the different alaṃkāras mentioned by Vāmana]
12: Definition of Virodha Alaṃkāra < [Chapter 4 - Arthālaṃkāras mentioned by Vāmana]
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