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अहंकारahaṃkāra

अहंकार (ahaṃkāra) is a Sanskrit word meaning conception of one's individuality or self-consciousness, egotism or the thinking of self, pride, haughtiness, selfishness, pride or self-conceit, sense of self, egoism, pride. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them Self-Consciousness / Sense of Individuality, Cosmological/Metaphysical Principle (e.g., Sāṅkhya Tattva), Personified Cosmic Entity/Deity.

Definitions
10
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Meanings by context

Self-Consciousness / Sense of Individuality

5 definitions
conception of one's individuality or self-consciousness

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Egotism or the thinking of self.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Self-consciousness. 2. Selfishness. 3. Pride or self-conceit.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Egotism. 2. Pride. 3. Self-conceit or arrogance.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

sense of self, egoism, pride

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Cosmological/Metaphysical Principle (e.g., Sāṅkhya Tattva)

2 definitions
the third source of creation in Sankhya philosophy, representing individuality or individualization

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

one of the tatvas

— The Purana Index

Personified Cosmic Entity/Deity

1 definition
an epithet of Parameshthi, Bhutatma Prajapati, and Brahma

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

Pride / Haughtiness / Arrogance

1 definition
pride, haughtiness

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Vedānta Philosophical Interpretation (e.g., Self-love as Ignorance)

1 definition
1. Self-love considered as spiritual ignorance. 2. Egotism, pride, or haughtiness. 3. One of the twenty-five elements of creation in the Sankhya philosophy.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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Definitions on this page come from 7 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.