upa-nayana

upa-nāyana

upa-naya

attaining, obtaining, obtainment BhP. ;
employment, application R. ;
application (the fourth member in a five fold syllogism) Sarvad. Tarkas. etc.;
introduction (into any science) VarBṛS. ;
initiation = the next L. ;
upa-nayana

upa-nāyá

upa-nīti

upa-nayana

employment, application Car. ;
introduction (into any science) Prab. ;
leading orﾠ drawing towards one's self;
that ceremony in which a Guru draws a boy towards himself andﾠ initiates him into one of the three twice-born classes
(one of the twelve Saṃskāras orﾠ purificatory rites
<prescribed in the Dharma-sūtras andﾠ explained in the Gṛihya-sūtras>
in which the boy is invested with the sacred thread
(different for the three castes)
andﾠ thus endowed with second orﾠ spiritual birth andﾠ qualified to learn the Veda by heart;
a Brāhman is initiated in the eighth year < orﾠ seventh according to Hiranyakeṡin;
orﾠ eighth from conception, according to Ṡāṇkhāyana etc.>, a Kshatriya in the eleventh, a Vaiṡya in the twelfth;
but the term could be delayed);
seeﾠ IW. p. 201 RTL. p. 360 seqq. ;
ĀṡvGṛ. I, 19-22 ṠāṇkhGṛ. II, 1-6 PārGṛ. II, 2-5 Gobh. II, 10 HirGṛ. I, 1 seqq. Mn. II, 36 Yājñ. I, 14.

upa-nayana-cintāmaṇi

upa-nayana-lakshaṇa

upâ̱-nayana

aupanāyanika

dvi-já

mfn. twice-born;
m. a man of any one of the first 3 classes, any Āryan, (esp.) a Brāhman (re-born through investiture with the sacred thread cf. upa-nayana) AV. Mn. MBh. etc.;
a bird orﾠ any oviparous animal (appearing first as an egg) Mn. MBh. etc.;
a tooth (as growing twice) Suṡr. Bhartṛ. Var. (n. BhP. II, 1, 31);
coriander seed orﾠ Xantboxylum Alatum L. ;
(ā) f. Piper Aurantiacum Bhpr. ;
Clerodendrum Siphonantus L. ;
pālaṅkī L. (cf. -jā́ andﾠ - jati)

patitá-sāvitrīka

pra-jāti

= upa-nayana, initiation with the sacred thread (as causing second birth) BhP. Sch. ;
m. N. of a prince MārkP. (v.l. pra-jāni);
- kāma mfn. desirous of propagation AitBr. ;
- mat mfn. containing words relating to generation ib. ;
- tyānanda m. the joy of propagation BhP.

baṭū-karaṇa

sam-upâ̱nayana

sāvitrī́

alsoﾠ called gāyatrī q.v.) AitBr. etc. etc.;
initiation as a member of the three twice-born classes by reciting the above verse andﾠ investing with the sacred thread (cf. under sāvitrá, andﾠ upa-nayana) Gaut. Mn. MBh. etc.;
a partic. form of the Gāyatrī metre Ked. ;
N. of Sūryā orﾠ a daughter of Savitṛi AV. Br. MBh. etc.;
N. of the wife of Brahmā. (sometimes regarded as the above verse deified orﾠ as the mystical mother of the three twice-born classes, orﾠ as the daughter of Savitṛi by his wife Pṛiṡni) MBh. Kathās. etc.;
of a wife of Ṡiva L. ;
of a manifestation of Prakṛiti Cat. ;
of the wife of Satya-vat (king of Ṡālva;
she was daughter of Aṡva-pati, king of Madra, andﾠ is regarded as a type of conjugal love;
her story is the subject of a fine episode of the Mahā-bhārata;
seeﾠ sāvitryupâ̱khyāna) MBh. R. BhP. ;
of the wife of Dharma (daughter of Daksha) VP. ;
of the wife of Kaṡyapa Cat. ;
of the wife of Bhoja (king of Dhārā) ib. ;
of a daughter of Ashṭāvakra Kathās. ;
of the Yamunā river Bālar. ;
of the Sarasvatī R. ;
of another river BhP. ;
a ray of light, solar ray W. ;
the ring-finger L. ;
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