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Entry अयन

अयनayanaa.Going (at the end of comp.); यथेमा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रायणाः Praśn. Up.
[अय्-ल्युट्]
1. Going (at the end of comp.); यथेमा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रायणाः Praśn. Up.
2. Going, moving, walking; as in रामायणम्.
3. A walk, path, way, road; आयन्नापोऽयनमिच्छमानाः Rv.3.33.7. अगस्त्य- चिह्नादयनात् R.16.44.
4. A place, site, abode, place of resort; Bṛi. Up.2.4.11. ता यदस्यायनं पूर्वम् Ms. 1.1 (occurring in the derivation of the word नारायण).
5. A way of entrance, an entrance (to an array of troops or व्यूह); अयनेषु च सर्वेषु यथाभागमव- स्थिताः Bg.1.11.
6. Rotation, circulation period; अङ्गिरसां अयनम्; इष्टिdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied, पशुdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied.
7. A particular period in the year for the performance of particular sacrificial or other religious works; Name of certain sacrificial performances; as गवामयनम्.
8. The sun's passage, north and south of the equator.
9. (Hence) The period of this passage, half year, the time from one solstice to another; see उत्तरायण and दक्षिणायन; Compare also सायन and निरयण.
10. the equinoctial and solstitial points; दक्षिणम् अयनम् winter solstice; उत्तरम् अयनम् summer solstice;
11. Method, manner, way.
12. A Śāstra, scripture or inspired writing.
13. Final emancipation; नान्यः पन्था विद्यतेऽयनाय Śvet. Up.
14. A commentary; treatise.
15. The deities presiding over the ayanas.
Derived forms and compounds
- -अंशः, -भागः the arc between the vernal equinoctial point and beginning of the fixed zodiac or first point of Aries.
- -कलाः The correction (in minutes) for ecliptic deviation. Sūryasiddhānta.
- -कालः the interval between the solstices.
- -ग्रहः A planet's longitude as corrected for ecliptic deviation; Tbe same.
- -जः a month caused byayanāṁśa.
- -परिवृत्तिः Change of the अयन; sun's passage from one side of the equator to the other; अयनपरिवृत्ति- र्व्यस्तशब्देनोच्यते । ŚB. on MS.6.5.37.
- -संक्रमः, -संक्रान्तिः Feminine passage through the zodiac.
- -वृत्तम् the ecliptic.
In the Gita1·11

अयनेषु च सर्वेषु यथाभागमवस्थिताः ।

ayaneṣu ca sarveṣu yathābhāgamavasthitāḥ — Therefore all ye standing in your respective divisions in the different fronts of the battle, guard Bhishma. 1·11
- अयनेषुayaneṣulocative plural of the neuter noun ayana (the different fronts of the battle).
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