demerit weight

guṇá

string orﾠ thread, rope TS. VII Mṛicch. Kum. Ragh. ;
a garland W. ;
a bow-string R. III, 33, 16 ( cāpa-) Ragh. IX, 54 Ṛitus. Hit. ;
(in geom.) a sinew;
the string of a musical instrument, chord Ṡiṡ. IV, 57:
ifc. (f. ā) with numerals « fold, times» ( seeﾠ cátur-, tri-, daṡa-, dví-, pañca-;
rarely the numeral stands by itself along with guṇá <e.g.. viṡishṭodaṡabhirguṇaiḥ, « of ten times higher value» Mn. II, 85 >
AV. X, 8, 43 MBh. III, 15649 Hariv. 509 ;
< guṇa = bhāga> Pāṇ. 5-2, 47 Kāṡ.);
a multiplier, co-efficient (in alg.);
subdivision, species, kind
(e.g.. gandhasyaguṇāḥ, the different kinds of smell MBh. XII, 6847);
the 6 subdivisions of action for a king in foreign politics (viz. peace, war, march, halt, stratagem, andﾠ recourse to the protection of a mightier king) Mn. VII, 160 Yājñ. I, 346 MBh. II, 155 ;
= upâ̱ya (q.v., denoting the 4 ways of conquering an enemy) R. V, 81, 41 ;
« requisite» seeﾠ - ṇôpêta;
a secondary element, subordinate orﾠ unessential part of any action (e.g.. sarva-g- mfn. « reaching to all subordinate parts», hence « valid throughout» KātyṠr.) ṠāṇkhṠr. ĀṡvṠr. KātyṠr. R. V, 1, 71 ;
an auxiliary act ṠāṇkhBr. XXVI, 4 ;
a secondary dish (opposed to anna i.e. rice orﾠ the chief dish), side-dish Mn. III, 224 ff. ;
(= - karman, in Gr.) the secondary orﾠ less immediate object of an action Pāṇ. 1-4, 51 Sch. ;
a quality, peculiarity, attribute orﾠ property Lāṭy. ṠāṇkhGṛ. Mn. III, IX, etc.. ;
an attribute of the 5 elements (each of which has its own peculiar quality orﾠ qualities as well as organ of sense;
thus
1. ether has ṡabda, orﾠ sound for its Guṇa andﾠ the ear for its organ;
2. the air has tangibility andﾠ sound for its Guṇas andﾠ the skin for its organ;
3. fire orﾠ light has shape orﾠ colour, tangibility, andﾠ sound for its Guṇas, andﾠ the eye for its organs;
4. water has flavour, shape, tangibility, andﾠ sound for its Guṇas, andﾠ the tongue for its organ;
5. earth has the preceding Guṇas,
with the addition of its own peculiar Guṇa of smell, andﾠ the nose for its organ)
Mn. I, 20 and 76-78 MBh. XII, 6846 ff. Ṡak. I, 1 BhP. III, 5, 35 ;
(in Ṡāṃkhya phil.) an ingredient orﾠ constituent of Prakṛiti, chief quality of all existing beings
(viz. sattva, rajas, andﾠ tamas
i.e. goodness, passion, andﾠ darkness, orﾠ virtue, foulness, andﾠ ignorance;
cf. RTL. pp. 31; 36; 163)
Mn. I; III, 40; XII, 24 ff. Sāṃkhyak. Bhag. XIII f. ;
(hence) the number « three» VarBṛS. IIc, 1 ;
a property orﾠ characteristic of all created things (in Nyāya phil. twenty-four Guṇas are enumerated, viz.
1. rūpa, shape, colour;
2. rasa, savour;
3. gandha, odour;
4. sparṡa, tangibility;
5. saṉkhyā, number;
6. parimāṇa, dimension;
7. pṛithaktva, severalty;
8. saṉyoga, conjunction;
9. vibhāga, disjunction;
10. paratva, remoteness;
11. aparatva, proximity;
12. gurutva, weight;
13. dravatva, fluidity;
14. sneha, viscidity;
15. ṡabda, sound;
16. buddhi orﾠ jñāna, understanding orﾠ knowledge;
17. sukha, pleasure;
18. duḥkha, pain;
19. icchā, desire;
20. dvesha, aversion;
21. prayatna, effort;
22. dharma, merit orﾠ virtue;
23. adharma, demerit;
24. saṉskāra, the self-reproductive quality);
an epithet KātyṠr. ;
good quality, virtue, merit, excellence Mn. MBh. etc.;
the merit of composition (consistency, elegance of expression, etc.) Kāvyâd. I, 41 f. Kpr. VIII Sāh. VIII ;
the peculiar properties of the letters (11 in number,
viz. the 8 bāhya-prayatnās <q.v.> andﾠ the 3 accents) Kāṡ. on Pāṇ. 1-1, 9 and 50 (cf. - mātra);
the first gradation of a vowel, the vowels a (with ar, al Pāṇ. 1-1, 51),
e, o Nir. X, 17 RPrāt. XI, 6 Pāṇ. ;
an organ of sense L. ;
a cook (cf. - kāra) L. ;
Bhīma-sena (cf. - kāra) L. ;
(ā) f. Sanseviera Roxburghiana L. ;
the plant māṉsarohiṇī L. ;
N. of a princess Rājat. IV, 695 (cf. nir-, vi-, sa-;
gauṇa.)
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- गुणस्तुति
- गुणस्थानप्रकरण
- गुणहानि
- गुणहीन