kshetra-jña

kshétra-jñá

familiar with the cultivation of the soil (as a husbandman) L. ;
clever, dexterous, skilful (with gen.) MBh. I, 3653 ;
cunning L. ;
m. « knowing the body» i.e. the soul, the conscious principle in the corporeal frame
ṠvetUp. Mn. VIII, 96; XII, 12 and 14 Yājñ. MBh. Hariv. 11297, etc.. ;
a form of Bhairava ( orﾠ Ṡiva);
N. of a prince BhP. XII, 1, 4 (vv.ll. kshatrau͡jas andﾠ kshemâ̱rcis);
(ā) f. a girl fifteen years old who personates the goddess Durgā at a festival of this deity

á-kshetra-jña

kshaitrajña

the knowledge of the soul W.

bráhman

the sacred word (as opp. to vāc, the word of man), the Veda, a sacred text, a text orﾠ Mantra used as a spell (forming a distinct class from the ṛicas, sāmāni andﾠ yajūṉshi;
cf. brahma-veda) RV. AV. Br. Mn. Pur. ;
the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda Mn. IV, 100 ;
the sacred syllable Om Prab. Sch., (cf. Mn. II, 83);
religious orﾠ spiritual knowledge (opp. to religious observances andﾠ bodily mortification such as tapas etc.) AV. Br. Mn. R. ;
holy life (esp. continence, chastity;
cf. brahma-carya) Ṡak. I, 24/25 Ṡaṃk. Sarvad. ;
(exceptionally treated as m.) the Brahmǎ orﾠ one selfexistent impersonal Spirit., the one universal Soul
( orﾠ one divine essence andﾠ source from which all created things emanate orﾠ with which they are identified andﾠ to which they return),
the Self-existent, the Absolute, the Eternal (not generally an object of worship but rather of meditation andﾠ-knowledge;
alsoﾠ with jyéshṭha, prathama-já, svayóm-bhu, a-mūrta, para, paratara, parama, mahat, sanātana, ṡāṡvata;
andﾠ = paramâ̱tman, ātman, adhyātma, pradhāna, kshetra-jña, tattva) AV. ṠBr. Mn. MBh. etc.. (IW. 9, 83 etc..) ;
n. the class of men who are the repositories andﾠ communicators of sacred knowledge, the Brāhmanical caste as a body (rarely an individual Brāhman) AV. TS. VS. ṠBr. Mn. BhP. ;
food Naigh. II, 7 ;
wealth ib. 10 ;
final emancipation L. ;
m. ( brahmán), one who Prays, a devot orﾠ religious man, a Brāhman who is a knower of Vedic texts orﾠ spells, one versed in sacred knowledge RV. etc. etc.
<cf. Lat., flāmen>;
N. of Bṛihas-pati (as the priest of the gods) RV. X, 141, 3 ;
one of the 4 principal priests orﾠ Ṛitvijas (the other three being the Hotṛi, Adhvaryu andﾠ Udgātṛi;
the Brahman was the most learned of them andﾠ was required to know the 3 Vedas, to supervise the, sacrifice andﾠ to set right mistakes;
at a later period his functions were based especially on the Atharva-veda) RV. etc. etc.;
Brahmā. orﾠ the one impersonal universal Spirit. manifested as a personal Creator andﾠ as the first of the triad of personal gods (= prajā-pati q.v.;
he never appears to have become an object of general worship, though he has two temples in India seeﾠ RTL. 555 etc.. ;
his wife is Sarasvatī ib. 48) TBr. etc. etc.;
= brahmaṇaāyuḥ, a lifetime of Brahmā. Pañcar. ;
an inhabitant of Brahmā. 's heaven Jātakam. ;
the sun L. ;
N. of Ṡiva Prab. Sch. ;
the Veda (?) PārGṛ. ;
the intellect (= buddhi) Tattvas. ;
N. of a star, δ Aurigae, Sūryat.;
a partic. astron. Yoga L. ;
N. of the 9th Muhūrta L. ;
(with Jainas) a partic. Kalpa Dharmaṡ. ;
N. of the servant of the 10th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇi L. ;
of a magician Rājat.

bhūtâ̱tman

N. of Brahmā. R. ;
of Mahāpurusha i.e. Vishṇu Hariv. ;
of Ṡiva L. ;
the individual soul Mn. V, 109 Yājñ. III, 34 etc.. ;
« nature of all beings», war, conflict L. ;
mfn. one whose soul is subdued orﾠ purified MBh. (cf. bhāvitâ̱tman);
m. « the self consisting of the elements», the body MaitrUp. Mn. XII, 12 ;
(opp. to kshetra-jña)

kshétra-víd

experienced, clever, skilful Kum. III, 50 ;
knowing the body (as the soul) Tattvas. ;
(t) m. « knowing the cultivation of fields», a husbandman W. ;
one who possesses spiritual knowledge, sage W. ;
the soul BhP. IV, 22, 37 (cf. á-ksh-.)

nārāyaṇá

he is identified with Brahmā. ib. 11 with Vishṇu orﾠ Kṛishṇa TĀr. MBh. etc.;
the Apsaras Urvaṡī is said to have sprung from his thigh Hariv. 4601 ;
elsewhere he is regarded as a Kaṡyapa orﾠ Aṇgirasa, alsoﾠ as chief of the Sādhyas, andﾠ with Jainas as the 8th of the 9 black Vāsudevas);
the Purusha-hymn ( RV. X, 90 said to have been composed by Nārāyaṇá) ṠBr. ṠāṇkhṠr. ;
(as synonym of Vishṇu) N. of the 2nd month (reckoning from Mārgaṡīrsha) Var. ;
a mystical N. of the letter ā Up. ;
N. of a son of Ajā-mila BhP. ;
of a son of Bhu-mitra orﾠ Bhūmi-mitra (a prince of the dynasty of the Kaṇvlyanas) Pur. ;
of a son of Nara-hari Kshitîṡ. ;
of sev. men, authors andﾠ commentators ( alsoﾠ with ācārya
kavi, gārgya, cakra-cūḍāmaṇi,
daiva-vid, dharmâ̱dhikārin, paṇḍina, paṇḍita,
dharmâ̱dkikāriṅ paṇḍitâ̱cārya, parivrāj, bhaṭṭa
<cf. below, andﾠ bhaṭṭa-n->, bhaṭṭâ̱cārya, bhaṭṭâ̱raḍa, bhāratī, bhishaj, muni, yati, yatî ̱vara, rāya, vandya, vādî ̱ṡvara, vidyā-vinoda, vaishṇava-muni, ṡarman, sarasvatī, sarva-jña, sārvabhauma);
mf (ī)n. relating orﾠ belonging to Nārāyaṇa orﾠ Kṛishṇa MBh. etc. (m. pl. the warriors of Kṛishṇa, IV, 147);
n. (with kshetra) N. of the ground on the banks of the Ganges for a distance of 4 cubits from he water L. ;
(with cūrṇa) a partic. medicinal powder Bhpr. ;
(with taila) a medic. oil expressed from various plants ib. ;
(ī) f. seeﾠ s.v.
nārāyaṇa

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