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अहिंसाahiṃsā

अहिंसा (ahiṃsā) is a Sanskrit word meaning harmlessness, security, non-injuring of any creature. Its 12 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Ethical/Religious Doctrine, Non-Injury / Harmlessness, Security / Safeness.

Etymology
E. अ neg. हिंसा hurt
Definitions
12
View Declension Tables , 24 forms

Meanings by context

Ethical/Religious Doctrine

5 definitions
Harmlessness, abstaining from injuring or causing pain to others in thought, word, or deed.

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Harmlessness or non-injury to any living being.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Harmlessness, refraining from injuring or killing any living thing

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Harmlessness or non-injury to living things.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

non-injury in thought, speech, and action towards all living beings

— The Purana Index

Non-Injury / Harmlessness

3 definitions
Harmlessness

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

harmlessness

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

non-injuring of any creature

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

Security / Safeness

3 definitions
security

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Security

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Harmlessness or non-injury. 2. Security or safeness.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Personification of Ahiṃsā

1 definition
harmlessness

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 10 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.