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Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

Results for सांख्य

3 dictionaries · exact headword

Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. सांख्यsāṃkhyaa.Relating to number.

    [संख्यया निर्वृत्तम् अण्]

    1. Relating to number.
    2. Calculating, enumerating.
    3. Discriminative.
    4. Deliberating, reasoning, a reasoner; त्वं गतिः सर्वसांख्यानां योगिनां त्वं परायणम् Mb.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -ख्यः, -ख्यम् Name of one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy, attributed to the sage Kapila; (this philosophy is so called because it 'enumerates' twentyfive Tattvas or true principles; and its chief object is to effect the final emancipation of the twenty-fifth Tattva, i.e. the Puruṣa or soul, from the bonds of this worldly existence the fetters of phenomenal creation by conveying a correct knowledge of the twenty-four other Tattvas and by properly discriminating the Soul from them. It regards the whole universe as a development of an inanimate principle called Prakṛiti q. v, while the Puruṣa is altogether passive and simply a looker-on. It agrees with the Vedānta in being synthetical and so differs from the analytical Nyāya or Vaiśeṣika; but its great point of divergence from the Vedānta is that it maintains two principles which the Vedānta denies, and that it does not admit God as the creator and controller of the universe, which the Vedānta affirms); सांख्यमिव कपिला- धिष्ठितम् K.

    • -रूयः

      1. A follower of the Sāṁkhya philosophy; ज्ञानयोगेन सांख्यानां कर्मयोगेण योगिनाम् Bg.3.3; 5.5.
      2. An epithet of Śiva.

    • -कारिका Name of a collection of 72 verses by Īśvara-Kriṣṇa.

    • -प्रसादः, -मुख्यः epithets of Śiva.

    Source: Apte

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. सांख्यsāṃkhyamfn. (fr. सं-ख्या) numeral, relating to number W.
    1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective (from सं-ख्या) numeral, relating to number W.
    2. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective relating to number (in gram. as expressed by the case-terminations etc.) Pat.
    3. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective rational, or discriminative W.
    4. masculine gender one who calculates or discriminates well, (especially) an adherent of the Sa1m2khya सांख्य doctrine Cu1lUp. MBh. etc.
    5. masculine gender Name of a man Car.
    6. masculine gender patronymic of the Vedic R2ishi ऋषि Atri अत्रि Anukr.
    7. masculine gender Name of S3iva शिव MBh.
    8. neuter gender (according to to some also masculine gender) Name of one of the three great divisions of Hindu1 Hindu philosophy (ascribed to the sage Kapila कपिल [quod vide], and so called either from "discriminating", in general, or, more probably, from "reckoning up" or "enumerating" twenty-five Tattvas तत्त्व s [see तत्त्व] or true entities [twenty-three of which are evolved out of Prakr2iti प्रकृति "the primordial Essence" or "first-Producer"], viz. Buddhi बुद्धि, Aham2ka1ra अहंकार, the five Tan-ma1tras तन्-मात्र s, the five Maha1-bhu1tas महा-भूत s and Manas मनस्; the twenty-fifth being Purusha पुरुष or Spirit [sometimes called Soul] which is neither a Producer nor Production [see विकार], but wholly distinct from the twenty-four other Tattvas तत्त्व s, and is multitudinous, each separate Purusha पुरुष by its union with Prakr2iti प्रकृति causing a separate creation out of Prakr2iti प्रकृति, the object of the philosophy being to effect the final liberation of the Purusha पुरुष or Spirit from the fetters caused by that creation; the Yoga योग [quod vide] branch of the Sa1m2khya सांख्य recognizes a Supreme Spirit dominating each separate Purusha पुरुष; the Tantras तन्त्र s identify Prakr2iti प्रकृति with the wives of the gods, especially with the wife of S3iva शिव; the oldest systematic exposition of the S Sa1m2khya सांख्य seems to have been by an author called Pan5ca-s3ikha पञ्च-शिख [the germ, however, being found in the Shasht2i-tantra षष्टि-तन्त्र, of which only scanty fragments are extant]; the original Su1tras सूत्र s were superseded by the S Sa1m2khya-ka1rika1 सांख्य-कारिका of I1s3vara-kr2ishn2a ईश्वर-कृष्ण, the oldest manual on the S Sa1m2khya सांख्य system that has come down to us and probably written in the 5th century A.D., while the S Sa1m2khya सांख्य - su1tras सूत्र s or S S3iva-pravacana शिव-प्रवचन and Tattva-sama1sa तत्त्व-समास, ascribed to the sage Kapila कपिल, are now thought to belong to as late a date as the 14th or 15th century or perhaps a little later) S3vetUp. MBh. etc. IW. 73 etc. RTL.
    Source: Monier-Williams

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. सांख्यsāṃkhya[sâmkhya] a. [samkhyâ] relating to grammatical number; m. calculator, delibera tor; adherent of the Sâmkhya…

    [sâmkhya] adjective [samkhyâ] relating to grammatical number; masculine calculator, delibera tor; adherent of the Sâmkhya doctrine; neuter the philosophical system, attributed to Kapila, which enumerates the twenty-five Tattvas or principles (an evolutionist doctrine): -puru sha, masculine the universal soul in the Sâmkhya system; -yoga, neuter the Sâmkhya and the Yoga systems; masculine the theistical Sâmkhya Yoga: -vâdin, masculine adherent of the theistical Sâmkhya-Yoga.

    Source: Macdonell

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