m. established end, final end or aim or purpose (seesama-s-), (seerāddhānta-), demonstrated conclusion of an argument (or the 4th member of a syllogism following on the refutation of the pūrva-pakṣa-q.v), settled opinion or doctrine, dogma, axiom, received or admitted truth (of four kindsSeesarva-tantra-s-?, prati-tantra-s-, adhikaraṇa-s-, abhyupagama-s-) (see)
अयन a. [अय्-ल्युट्] Going (at the end of comp.); यथेमा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रायणाः Praśn. Up. 1 Going, moving, walking; as in रामायणम्. -2 A walk, path, way, road; आयन्नापो$यनमिच्छमानाः Rv.3.33.7. अगस्त्य- चिह्नादयनात् R.16.44. -3 A place, site, abode, place of resort; Bṛi. Up.2.4.11. ता यदस्यायनं पूर्वम् Ms. 1.1 (occurring in the derivation of the word नारायण). -4 A way of entrance, an entrance (to an array of troops or व्यूह); अयनेषु च सर्वेषु यथाभागमव- स्थिताः Bg.1.11. -5 Rotation, circulation period; अङ्गिरसां अयनम्; इष्टि˚, पशु˚. -6 A particular period in the year for the performance of particular sacrificial or other religious works; N. of certain sacrificial performances; as गवामयनम्. -7 The sun's passage, north and south of the equator. -8 (Hence) The period of this passage, half year, the time from one solstice to another; see उत्तरायण and दक्षिणायन; cf. also सायन and निरयण. -9 the equinoctial and solstitial points; दक्षिणम् अयनम् winter solstice; उत्तरम् अयनम् summer solstice; -1 Method, manner, way. -11 A Śāstra, scripture or inspired writing. -12 Final emancipation; नान्यः पन्था विद्यते$यनाय Śvet. Up. -13 A commentary; treatise. -14 The deities presiding over the ayanas. -Comp. -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; ibid. -जः a month caused by ayanāṁśa. -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 f. passage through the zodiac. -वृत्तम् the ecliptic.
नक्षत्रम् [न क्षरति; cf. Uṇ.3.15 also] 1 A star in general. -2 A constellation, an asterism in the moon's path, lunar mansion; नक्षत्राणामहं शशी Bg.1.21. नक्षत्र- ताराग्रहसंकुलापि R.6.22; (they are twenty-seven). -3 A pearl. -4 A necklace of 27 pearls. -Comp. -ईशः, -ईश्वरः, -नाथः, -पः, -पतिः, -राजः the moon; R.6.66. -उपजीविन् an astrologer. -कान्तिविस्तारः the white Yāvanāla flower. -चक्रम् 1 the sphere of the fixed stars. -2 the lunar asterisms taken collectively. -जातम् birth when the moon is in a particular Nakṣatra. -दर्शः an astronomer or astrologer. -नेमिः 1 the moon. -2 the pole-star. -3 an epithet of Viṣṇu.
(-मिः f.) Revatī, the last asterism. -पथः the starry sky. -पाठकः an astrologer. -पुरुषः 1 (in astr.) the figure of a man's body on the limbs of which are shown the various asterisms. -भोगः the diurnal period of a Nakṣatra; भभोगो$ष्टशती लिप्ता Sūrya-siddhānta. -माला 1 a group of stars. -2 a necklace of twenty-seven pearls; 'सैव नक्षत्रमाला स्यात् सप्तविंशतिमौक्तिकैः' Ak.; Śi.18.35; नक्षत्रमालाभरणमिव मदनद्विपस्य; K.; Kau. A.2. 11. -3 the table of the asterisms in the moon's path. -4 a kind of neck-ornament of elephants; अनङ्गवारण- शिरोनक्षत्रमालायमानेन मेखलादाम्ना K.11. -मालिनी N. of a flowering creeper (Mar. जाई). -योगः the conjunction of the moon with the lunar mansions. -लोकः the starry region, the firmament. -वर्त्मन् n. the sky. -विद्या astronomy or astrology; Ch. Up.7.1.2. -वृष्टिः f. shooting of falling stars. -साधनम् calculation for the fixation of auspicious periods of Nakṣatras. -सूचकः a bad astrologer; तिथ्युत्पत्तिं न जानन्ति ग्रहाणां नैव साधनम् । परवाक्येन वर्तन्ते ते वै नक्षत्रसूचकाः ॥ or अविदित्वैव यः शास्त्रं दैवज्ञत्वं प्रपद्यते । स पङ्क्तिदूषकः पापो ज्ञेयो नक्षत्रसूचकः ॥ Bṛi. S.2.17,18.
noun (masculine) a particular class of Buddhist and Jaina wks (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
any fixed or established or canonical text-book or received scientific treatise on any subject (esp. on astronomy and mathematics) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
axiom (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
demonstrated conclusion of an argument (or the 4th member of a syllogism following on the refutation of the pūrvapakṣa) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
dogma (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
established end (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
final end or aim or purpose (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
received or admitted truth (of four kinds) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
settled opinion or doctrine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a particular heretical Tantra system (followed by a sect of Śaivas and personified in the 3rd Act of the Prabodhacandrodaya) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a particular Buddha (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of various astronomical wks (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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