आनन्दः [आनन्द्-घञ्] 1 Happiness, joy, delight, pleasure; आनन्दं ब्रह्मणो विद्वान्न बिभेति कदाचन T. Up. supreme bliss of felicity; आनन्द एवास्य विज्ञानमात्मानन्दात्मनो हैवं सर्वे देवाः Śat. Br. -2 God, Supreme Spirit (ब्रह्मन्) (said to be n. also in this sense; cf. विज्ञानमानन्दं ब्रह्म Bṛi. Up.3.9.28.). -3 N. of the forty-eighth year of the cycle of Jupiter. -4 N. of Śiva. -5 N. of Viṣṇu. -6 N. of Balarāma (according to Jaina doctrines). -7 N. of a cousin and follower and favourite disciple of Buddha Śākyamuni, compiler of the Sūtras. -8 A variety of the Daṇḍaka metre. -दा, -दी N. of two plants (Mar. भाङ्ग, रानमोगरी). -दम् 1 Wine, liquor. -2 A kind of house. -Comp. -अर्णवः the delight of Brahman. -काननम्, -वनम् N. of Kāśi. -गिरिः, -ज्ञानः, -ज्ञानगिरिः N of a celebrated annotator on Śaṅkarāchārya. -ज a. caused by joy (as tears). -तीर्थः N. of Madhva, the founder of a Vaiśṇava school of philosophy. -द, -कर a. exhilarating, delighting. -करः The moon; दधार सर्वात्मकमात्मभूतं काष्ठा यथानन्दकरं मनस्तः Bhāg. 1.2.18. -दत्तः [आनन्दो दत्तो येन] the membrum virile. -पटः [आनन्दजनको पटः] a bridal garment. -पूर्ण a. delighted supremely, full of bliss. (-र्णः) the Supreme Spirit. -प्रभवः semen. -भैरव a. causing both joy and fear. (-वः) N. of Śiva. -लहरिः, -री f. 'wave of enjoyment', title of a small hymn by Śaṅkarāchārya addressed to Pārvatī.
आनन्दमय a. Blissful, full of joy, made up or consisting of happiness; सुषुप्तिस्थान एकीभूतः प्रज्ञानघन एवानन्दमयो ह्यानन्दभुक् Māṇḍ. Up.5. -यः The Supreme Spirit; Br. Sū.1.1.12. -या A form of Durgā. ˚कोशः the innermost wrapper or vesture of the body, causal frame enshrining the soul; see कोश.
आनन्दन a. Pleasing, delighting; Rām.2.2.27. (fig. a son); ˚नं चेतसः H.1.183. -नम् 1 Delighting, making happy. -2 Paying respects to. -3 Courteous treatment of a friend or a guest at meeting and parting, courtesy, civility. -4 What gives or produces delight.
m. (n.) joy, bliss; sensual pleasure: -ka, a. gladdening, delighting; -thu, m. joy, delight; -na, a. delighting; -bâshpa, m. tears of joy; -maya, a. (î) consisting of joy, blissful; -yitri, m. delighter;-vardhana, m. N. of a poet.
m. N.; -½anuga, m. N. of a celebrated Vaishnava, founder of a Vedântic school; n. Râmânuga's doctrine; -½ayana, a. (î) relating to Râma, son of Da saratha; n. epic relating the doings of Râma (attributed to Vâlmîki and containing about 24,000 verses in seven books): -kathâ, f. story related in the Râmâyana.
noun (masculine) (in dram.) the thing wished for (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a kind of flute (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
enjoyment (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
happiness (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
joy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Bala (Jain.) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a country (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Lokeśvara (Buddh.) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Medhātithi
name of several men (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sensual pleasure (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the end of the drama (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the sixteenth Muhūrta (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine neuter) name of the forty-eighth year of the cycle of Jupiter (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
one of the three attributes of Ātman or Brahman in the Vedānta philosophy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine neuter) name of a teacher (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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noun (neuter) civility (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
courteous treatment of a friend or guest at meeting and parting (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
courtesy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
delighting (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
making happy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective joyless (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
melancholy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sad (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sorrowful (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of several authors (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
soul of the universe (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
supreme felicity (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the Supreme spirit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) full delight (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of several authors (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the Supreme Being (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) (Trika:) Name einer der Ānandabhūmis
name of various men and authors (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of various wks (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the rapture of absorption into the one self-existent spirit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) Gaertnera Racemosa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Mimusops Elengi (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the red-flowering globeamaranth (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) (Trika:) Name einer der Ānandabhūmis
a kind of flute (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
final emancipation (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
great bliss (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a ??? near Śrīśaila
name of a disciple of Buddha (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a king (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a river (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of two authors (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the great joy of deliverance from further transmigration (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of a sage and other men (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Brahmā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the car of Viṣṇu (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) (pure) "Existence and Thought and Joy" (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the One self-existing spirit (Brahma) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Viṣṇu as identified with Brahma (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of various writers (esp. of the author of the Vedāntasāra) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
perpetual bliss (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) name of a work (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Viṣṇu
name of various authors and other persons (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a kind of tree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a youth attendant on Rādhā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of an author (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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