Yanta: 5 definitions

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Yanta means something in Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, biology. 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.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Yanta in Niger is the name of a plant defined with Aristida sieberiana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Aristida sieberiana Trin. ex Spreng. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Species Graminum Stipaceorum (1842)
· Neue Entdeckungen im ganzen Umfang der Pflanzenkunde (1821)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

yanta : (nt.) a machine.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Yanta, (nt.) (Vedic yantra, a kind of n. ag. formation fr. yam to hold by means of a string or bridle, etc. Idg. *em & *ịem, as in Lat. emo to take & red-imio. ) a means for holding, contrivance, artifice, instrument, machine, mechanism; fig. instrumentality (as perhaps in, kamma° at Th. passages).—Referring to the machinery (outfit) of a ship (as oars, helm, etc.) J. IV, 163 (sabbayant’ûpapanna=piy’—ârittā etc. C.); Miln. 379. To mechanism in general (mechanical force) J. V, 333 (°vegena=with the swiftness of machinery). To a sugar-mill Miln. 166; usually as ucchu-yanta J. I, 25, 339 (°yante gaṇṭhikā), cp. ucchūnaṃ yanta DhA. IV, 199.—tela-yanta (-cakka) (the wheel of) an oil mill J. I, 25.—dāru-yanta a wooden machine (i.e. a mechanical man with hands & feet moved by pulling of strings) DA. I, 197; Vism. 595 (quoted as simile).—kamma-yanta the machinery of Kamma Th. 1, 419 (i.e. its instrumentality, not, as translation “car”; cp. Brethren 217: “it breaks in pieces K’s living car, ” evidently influenced by C. explanation “attabhāva-yanta”), 574 (similarly: see discussed under yantita). Note. yantāni at Nd2 529 (on Sn. 48 saṅghaṭṭa-yantām) is explained as “dhuvarāni. ” The spelling & meaning of the latter is not clear. It must refer to bracelets. ‹-› Cp. SnA 96 valayāni.

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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.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

yantā (यंता).—p pr S That restrains, controls, cohibits.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

yantā (यंता).—p pr That restrains, controls.

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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.

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