Yatna: 18 definitions
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Alternative spellings of this word include Yatn.
In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
1) Yatna (यत्न).—Effort in the utterance of a letter; the word which is generally used for such an effort is प्रयत्न (prayatna). This effort is described to be of two kinds आभ्यन्तर (ābhyantara) internal i.e. below the 37 root of the tongue and बाह्य (bāhya) above the root of the tongue i.e. inside the mouth; cf. यत्नं द्विधा (yatnaṃ dvidhā) | आभ्यन्तरो बाह्यश्च (ābhyantaro bāhyaśca) | S. K. on P. I. 1.9;
2) Yatna.—Specific effort, by adding a word to a rule for drawing some inference, with a view to removing some technical difficulty: cf तेन पयो धावती-त्यादौ यत्नान्तरमास्थेयम् (tena payo dhāvatī-tyādau yatnāntaramāstheyam) Kaas. on P. VIII. 2. 25. The phrase कर्तव्योत्र यत्नः (kartavyotra yatnaḥ) often occurs in the Mahaabhaasya.
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.
Kavyashastra (science of poetry)
Yatna (यत्न) refers to one of the five stages of the development of the plot of an epic poem (i.e., Kāryāvasthā).
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.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Yatna (यत्न) (Cf. Suyatna) refers to “endeavour”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.11.—Accordingly, as Śiva said to Himavat (Himālaya): “[...] O lord of mountains, O best of mountains, now put forth all endeavour [i.e., su-yatna] whereby my penance can be conducted without obstacles. O excellent Mountain, this alone is the greatest service that you can render. Please arrange for it with due effort. Please return to your abode with your mind full of pleasure”.
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.
Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)
Yatna (यत्न) refers to “effort (and volition)”, according to the Netratantra of Kṣemarāja: a Śaiva text from the 9th century in which Śiva (Bhairava) teaches Pārvatī topics such as metaphysics, cosmology, and soteriology.—Accordingly, [verse 10.39-45]—“[...] He worships with a mixture of white sandalwood, dust-colored powdered camphor, seeds, grain, and sesame, [mixed together] with white sugar [that has been] combined with ghee and milk. All meditation done with effort and volition (yatna-dhī) is the highest, etc. [and] causes one to thrive, etc. If, while [performing the agreed mediation], worshiping with Mṛtyujit [in mind, the king] obtains great peace [mahāśanti] instantly”.
Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
yatna (यत्न).—m (S) Effort, exertion, endeavor: also an effort or endeavor.
yatna (यत्न).—m Effort, exertion; endeavour.
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
Yatna (यत्न).—[yat-bhāve naṅ]
1) An effort, exertion, attempt, endeavour, trial; यत्ने कृते यदि न सिध्यति कोऽत्रं दोषः (yatne kṛte yadi na sidhyati ko'traṃ doṣaḥ) H. Pr. 31; Bhartṛhari 2.5.
2) Diligence, assiduity, perseverance.
3) Care, zeal, watchfulness, vigilance; महान् हि यत्नस्तव देवदारौ (mahān hi yatnastava devadārau) R.2.56; प्रतिपात्रमाधीयतां यत्नः (pratipātramādhīyatāṃ yatnaḥ) Ś.1.
4) Pains, trouble, labour, difficulty; शेषाङ्गनिर्माणविधौ विधातुर्लावण्य उत्पाद्य इवास यत्नः (śeṣāṅganirmāṇavidhau vidhāturlāvaṇya utpādya ivāsa yatnaḥ) Kumārasambhava 1.35;7.66; R.7.14. (yatnena ind. with great effort, diligently, carefully. yatnataḥ carefully, zealously, sedulously; guṇavadaguṇavad vā kurvatā kāryamādau pari- ṇatiravadhāryā yatnataḥ paṇḍitena Bhartṛhari 2.99. yatnāt
1) with great effort.
2) diligently, vigorously, zealously.
3) in spite of every effort.
4) necessarily.)
Derivable forms: yatnaḥ (यत्नः).
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Yatna (यत्न).—See under यत् (yat).
See also (synonyms): yatta.
Yatna (यत्न).—m.
(-tnaḥ) Effort, exertion, perseverance, energy. E. yat to endeavour strenuously or continuously, aff. naṅ .
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Yatna (यत्न).—Ind. 1. Where, in what place. 2. When. 3. Because, since, as that. E. yad what, and tral aff.
Yatna (यत्न).—[yat + na], m. 1. Effort, [Pañcatantra] ii. [distich] 133; 99 (yatnāt, in spite of every effort), perseverance, energy, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 2, 88. 2. Will, Bhāṣāp. 4. 3. Diligence,
Yatna (यत्न).—[masculine] endeavour, effort, labour, pains about ([locative] or —°). °—, [instrumental], [ablative] & [adverb] in tas with effort, diligently, carefully; yatnaṃ kṛ take pains, strive after, endeavour at ([locative] or infin.).
1) Yatna (यत्न):—[from yat] a m. activity of will, volition, aspiring after, [Kaṇāda’s Vaiśeṣika-sūtra; Bhāṣāpariccheda]
2) [v.s. ...] performance, work, [Bharata-nāṭya-śāstra]
3) [v.s. ...] (also [plural]) effort, exertion, energy, zeal, trouble, pains, care, endeavour after ([locative case] or [compound]), [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc. (yatnaṃ with √kṛ, ā-√sthā, samā-√sthā, ā-√dhā and [locative case] or [infinitive mood], ‘to make an effort or attempt’, ‘take trouble or pains for’; yatnena or tnais, ‘with effort’, ‘carefully’, ‘eagerly’, ‘strenuously’ [also yatna [in the beginning of a compound]]; yatnenāpi, ‘in spite of every effort’; yatnair vinā, ‘without eff°’; yatnāt, with or notwithstanding eff°; mahato yatnāt ‘, with great eff°’, ‘very carefully’)
4) [v.s. ...] a special or express remark or statement, [Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra [Scholiast or Commentator]]
5) b yatya See p.841, [columns] 1 and 2.
Yatna (यत्न):—(tnaḥ) 1. m. Effort, perseverance.
Yatna (यत्न):—(von yat) m. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 3, 90.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 26, 180.] Willensthätigkeit, Bestrebung [KAṆ. 5, 13.] [Colebrooke 1, 285.] [Bhāṣāpariccheda 4. 33.] [KUSUM. 5, 8.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 175] (wo wohl cetanā yatnaḥ zu lesen ist). Verrichtung, Arbeit [Bharata] [NĀṬY. 34, 42.] Bemühung, Mühe, Anstrengung [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 3, 27.] [Mahābhārata 3, 2807.] [Yogasūtra 1, 13.] tasya yatnaḥ śrama eva kevalam [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 19, 14.] vyartha [Spr. 65.] vināyi yatnena [1509.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 44, 17.] mit loc.: yadi paropakṛtau na yatnaḥ wenn man sich nicht bemüht Andern Gefälligkeiten zu erweisen [Spr. 2791.] doṣeṣu yatnaḥ sumahāṃkhalasya der Bösewicht kümmert sich gar sehr um Fehler [3872.] [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 56.] abandhyayatnāśca babhūvurarbhake [3, 29.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 15, 21.] Die Ergänzung im comp. vorangehend: niṣphalārambhayatnāḥ [Meghadūta 55.] rūpavidhāna [Kumārasaṃbhava 7, 66.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 55, 43.] parārthaghaṭanāyatnairvinā [Spr. 2958.] yatnaṃ kar sich Mühe geben, Mühe auf Etwas (loc.) wenden, sich Etwas angelegen sein lassen: yatne kṛte yadi na sidhyati [471.] mā viṣādaṃ gamo vīra kuru yatnaṃ mayā saha [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 68, 5.] [Scholiast] zu [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 3, 15.] kriyatāṃ ca tathā yatnaḥ yathā [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 60, 7.] kuryādadhyayane yatnamācāryasya hiteṣu ca [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 191.] [Mahābhārata 1, 1116. 5, 7409.] [Harivaṃśa 4428.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 9, 12. 3, 68, 9. 4, 6, 19. 41, 34. 5, 77, 9.] [Spr. 4023. 4193. 5061.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 93, 7.] sa prajārthe paraṃ yatnamakarot [Mahābhārata 3, 2077.] mantharaṃ mocayituṃ yatnaḥ kriyatām [Hitopadeśa 43, 13.] yatnamāsthā dass. [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 44, 11.] [Spr. 5353.] yatnāntaramāstheyam [Kāśikīvṛtti] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 1, 26.] indriyāṇāṃ saṃyame yatnamātiṣṭhet [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 88. 8, 302. 9, 252. 333.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 1, 69, 13.] paramaṃ yatnamātiṣṭhetpuruṣo rakṣaṇaṃ prati [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 16.] paraṃ yatnaṃ samāsthitaḥ [Mahābhārata 3, 2823.] pratipātramādhīyatāṃ yatnaḥ [Śākuntala 3, 13.] parārthaṃ yatnamārabhya [Mahābhārata 3, 2175.] yatnena sorgfältig, eifrig: yatnena bhojayecchrāddhe bahvṛcaṃ vedapāragam so v. a. er lasse es sich angelegen sein zu speisen [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 145. 234.] tadyatnena varjayet [4, 159. 7, 49. 10, 83.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 75, 26.] [Spr. 439.] [Pañcatantra 192, 12.] yatnenāpyanivāryam trotz aller Anstrengung [Kathāsaritsāgara 51, 36.] ayatnena (s. auch u. ayatna) ohne Mühe [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 44, 78.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 75, 6.] [Pañcatantra 201, 14.] yatnais = yatnena [Mahābhārata 15, 186.] upaseveta taṃ nityaṃ sarvayatnairguruṃ yathā [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 7, 175.] na viṣamamṛtaṃ kartuṃ śakyaṃ yatnaśatairapi [Spr. 1470.] yatnāt bei aller Anstrengung [2281. 2905.] sorgfältig, eifrig [Suśruta 1, 102, 12.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 53, 66.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 39, 13.] mahato yatnāt mit grosser Anstrengung [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 84, 26.] ayatnāt (s. auch u. ayatna) ohne Anstrengung [Pañcatantra 176, 8], wo yatnādeva zu lesen ist. yatnatas sorgfältig, eifrig [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 135. 9, 15.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 8, 19. 2, 91, 7. 4, 8, 53. 6, 1, 15.] [Spr. 379. 843. 1897. 2661.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 26, 4. 52, 376. 53, 7.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 39, 10.] ayatnatas (s. auch u. ayatna) ohne Mühe [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 282.] [Vedānta lecture No. 148.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1481.] yatnapratipādya mit Mühe, nicht leicht [Kāśikīvṛtti] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 2, 53.] — Vgl. a, niryatna, pra, prati, sa .
Yatna (यत्न):—m. (adj. Comp. f. ā ) —
1) Willensthätigkeit , Bestrebung. —
2) Verrichtung , Arbeit. —
3) Sg. und Pl. Bemühung , Mühe , Anstrengung , — in Betreff von (Loc. oder im Comp. vorangehend). yatnaṃ kar , ā-sthā , samā-sthā , ā-dhā sich Mühe geben , Mühe auf Etwa wenden , sich angelegen sein lassen ; mit Loc. oder Infin. yatnena und yatnais sorgfältig , eifrig , alles Ernstes ; yatnenāpi trotz aller Anstrengung ; yatnāt bei aller Anstrengung ; sorgfältig , eifrig ; mahato yatnāt mit grosser Anstrengung ; yatnatas sorgfältig , eifrig ; yatna mit Mühe , nicht leicht. —
4) eine besondere , ausdrückliche Bemerkung Comm. zu [Āpastamba’s Śrautasūtra 7,20,5.8,7,3.]
Yatna (यत्न) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Jatta.
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
1) Yatna (यत्न) [Also spelled yatn]:—(nm) effort, endeavour; attempt; care; ~[pūrvaka] with effort/attempt; with care; ~[vatī] feminine form of ~[vāna; ~vāna/śīla] making effort, effortive.
2) Yatna in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) torture, torment..—yatna (यातना) is alternatively transliterated as Yātanā.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Yatna (ಯತ್ನ):—
1) [noun] a try; an effort; an attempt.
2) [noun] great effort; violent exertion.
3) [noun] speed; swiftness.
4) [noun] the act or an instance of helping; help.
5) [noun] serious attention; solicitude; heed; caution; care; ಯತ್ನ ಮಾಡು [yatna madu] yatna māḍu to make an effort; to try; to endeavour.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Yatna (यत्न):—n. 1. effort; attempt; endeavor; toil; 2. diligence; perseverance; 3. care; vigilance;
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+1): Yatnaisu, Yatnakarin, Yatnako-khamba, Yatnakshepa, Yatnamgey, Yatnantara, Yatnapratipadya, Yatnapurna, Yatnashali, Yatnashila, Yatnashile, Yatnasiddha, Yatnata, Yatnatah, Yatnatas, Yatnavada, Yatnavadi, Yatnavan, Yatnavant, Yatnavat.
Full-text (+91): Prayatna, Ayatna, Sayatna, Pratiyatna, Yatnavat, Yatnakshepa, Yatnatas, Niryatna, Kritaghatayatna, Yatana, Apratiyatna, Sayatnam, Yatnashila, Vedarthayatna, Sarvayatna, Ayatnakarin, Pratipatram, Yatnika, Atiyatna, Yatta.
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