Vyashti, Vyaṣṭi: 15 definitions
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Vyashti means something in 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.
The Sanskrit term Vyaṣṭi can be transliterated into English as Vyasti or Vyashti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
sanskrit; lit: “separate”.
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).
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि).—Individuality as opposed to samaṣṭi or Brahmam.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 3. 10.
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.
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि) or Vyaṣṭisthiti refers to “(Viṣṇu’s sustaining will in its) individual-directed concern”, as discussed in the tenth chapter of the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā, a Pāñcarātra work in 60 chapters dealing with topics such as Viṣṇu’s discus-power, the processes of creation and esoteric practices related to Sudarśana (such as mantras and yantras).—Description of the chapter [arthātmakapramāṇa-nirūpaṇa]: Nārada asks what proof there is for saying the entire world is sustained by a desire by Viṣṇu to uphold it, which desire is personified as His Sudarśana wheel symbol (1-6). Śiva undertakes to give the proof regarding Viṣṇu’s sthiti-sustaining will—in its collective (mahāsthiti) regard (10) and in its individual-directed concern (vyaṣṭi-sthiti) (11-40a). [...]
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि)is the name of a mythical teacher in the first two Vaṃśas (lists of teachers) in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka-upaniṣad.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि).—f S Pervasion severally or singly; inherence distributively and constituently; the state of an individual or a particular or a part of any compound or collective mass--of any quantity or numberof any body or whole. vyaṣṭi is contradistinguished from samaṣṭi. vyaṣṭi signifies the state or standing of component members, portions, substances, or articles--of constituents, ingredients, or items; the state of components distinctly, distributively, and componently. samaṣṭi signifies the state of the composition, aggregate, or amount--the state of parts or particulars comprehended, comprised, or collected. vyaṣṭi is the state of an individual in the species; of a species in the genus; of a genus in the class or order. samaṣṭi is the state of the species as the comprehension of its individuals; of the genus as the comprehension of its species; of the class or order as the comprehension of its genera. vyaṣṭi is the state of an ingredient, a tree, a fruit, a drop, a soldier, a citizen; and samaṣṭi is the state of the compound--of the forest, the cluster, the ocean, the army, the city. See further under samaṣṭi.
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
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि).—f.
1) Individuality, singleness.
2) Distributive pervasion.
3) (In Vedānta phil.) An aggregate or whole viewed as made up of many separate bodies (opp. samaṣṭi q. v.); समष्टिरीशः सर्वेषां स्वात्मतादात्म्यवेदनात् । तदभावा- त्ततोऽन्ये तु कथ्यन्ते व्यष्टिसंज्ञया (samaṣṭirīśaḥ sarveṣāṃ svātmatādātmyavedanāt | tadabhāvā- ttato'nye tu kathyante vyaṣṭisaṃjñayā) || Pañchadaśī 1.25.
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि).—f.
(-ṣṭiḥ) 1. Singleness. 2. Distributive pervasion. 3. A whole viewed as consisting of many separate objects, (as opposed to samaṣṭi,) (in Vedanta phil.)
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि).—i. e. vi-akṣ + ti, f. Singleness, individuality, [Vedāntasāra, (in my Chrestomathy.)] in
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि).—[feminine] acquisition, succession; individual (ph.).
1) Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि):—[=vy-aṣṭi] [from vy-aś] f. attainment, success, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] (in Vedānta) singleness, individuality, a separated aggregate (such as man, viewed as a part of a whole e.g. of the Universal Soul while himself composed of individual parts; opp. to sam-aṣṭi q.v.), [Śaṃkarācārya; Vedāntasāra]
3) [v.s. ...] m. Name of a preceptor, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि):—(ṣṭiḥ) 3. f. Individuality produced by the indwelling of God; Vedānta.
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि):—(von 1. aś mit vi)
1) f. a) das Erlangen, Erfolg [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 6, 4, 8, 3.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 10, 2, 4, 8. 12, 3, 3, 2. 13, 3, 7, 3. 4, 1, 1.] sarvā vyaṣṭīrvyaśiṣyan [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 10, 6, 1.] [Kauṣītakyupaniṣad 1, 7.] — b) Einzelding, Einzelwesen (Gegens. samaṣṭi) [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [?S. 14. 312. Vedānta lecture No. 23. 28. 30. Scholiast zu Kapila 1, 98. WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 348. 350. in dieser Bed. wohl auf 2.] as mit vi zurückzuführen; vgl. [Vedāntasāra 30.] —
2) m. Nomen proprium eines Lehrers [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 5, 5, 22. 7, 3, 28.]
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Hindi dictionary
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि):—(nm) an individual; —[aura samaṣṭi] the individual and the community/society: ~[ta]: individually; one by one; ~[preyavāda] individualistic hedonism; -[mānava] individual man; ~[vāditā, ~vāda] individualism; ~[vādī] individualistic; an individualist; ~[sukhavāda] individualistic hedonism.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Vyaṣṭi (ವ್ಯಷ್ಟಿ):—
1) [noun] the state, fact or quality of being alone; a considering a person in his or her singleness, as distinguished from considering the society, nation or mankind as a whole.
2) [noun] a single person, distinguished by mass of people, society or mankind.
3) [noun] one of, any of, the several bodies of a whole taken separately for consideration (as dif. from ಸಮಷ್ಟಿ, [samashti,] the whole).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vyaṣṭi (व्यष्टि):—n. 1. individuality; singleness; 2. distributive pervasion; 3. Philos. an aggregate or whole viewed as made up of many separate bodies;
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Starts with: Vyashtigraha, Vyashtimulak, Vyashtimulaka, Vyashtisamashtita, Vyashtisthiti, Vyashtyantaryami.
Full-text (+42): Samashti, Vyashtyantaryami, Vyashtisamashtita, Vyashtisthiti, Vyashtyabhipraya, Vyashtimulaka, Vyashtimulak, Viyashti, Indwelling witness, Vyasta, Asthi, Samasta, Vak, Sarasvati, Trishna, Nidra, Trisha, Kshudha, Duratyaya, Kamadhenu.
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