# ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya)

Canonical page: https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/aishvarya

ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) is a Sanskrit word meaning sovereignty, supremacy, power, and sway, dominion, superhuman power, control, power or sway, divine faculties such as omnipresence and omnipotence. Its 7 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them Lordship and Mystic Powers (Comprehensive), Sovereignty and General Authority, Superhuman or Divine Powers.

- **SLP1:** `ESvarya`  **IAST:** aiśvarya  **Devanagari:** ऐश्वर्य
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%C5%9Bvarya
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/aishvarya/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Lordship and Mystic Powers (Comprehensive) (4 definitions)
- 1. Power or sway. 2. Dominion. 3. Supremacy. 4. Divine faculties such as omnipresence and omnipotence.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) [Printed book page 155-23 ] ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) n. 1. Power, sway; 2. dominion; 3. supremacy; 4. the divine faculties of omnipresence, omnipotence &c. [ ID=7568 ]
- 1. Control. 2. Dominion or supreme power. 3. Superhuman power.  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) [Printed book page 0144-b ] ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) aiśvarya, i. e. īśvara + ya, n. 1. Control, Man. 6, 95. 2. Dominion, Rām. 5, 22, 31. 3. Supreme dominion, Man. 4, 235. 4. Superhuman power, Bhāg. P. 3, 25, 37. — Comp. Dhana-, n. the dominion over wealth, Man. 7, 42. [ ID=2680 ]
- 1. Reign, realm, or dominion. 2. Superhuman power.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) [Printed book page 103 ] ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) n. = prec. n. ( w. gen., loc., or —°); reign, realm, dominion; superhuman power; poss. ° वन्त् (°vant). [ ID=6656 ]
- 1. Power, might, or dominion. 2. Supremacy. 3. Superhuman power or divine faculties such as omnipresence, omnipotence, and invisibility.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) [Printed book page 0188-b ] Aiśvarya, am, n. power, might, sway; dominion; supremacy; superhuman power; the divine faculties of omnipresence, omnipotence, invisibility, &c. (some- times their number is given as five, with reference to the five elements). —Aiśvarya-vat, ān, atī, at, en- dowed with superhuman faculties, possessed of super- natural powers, connected with them. [ ID=12920 ]

### Sovereignty and General Authority (2 definitions)
- sovereignty, supremacy, power, and sway  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 234,3] ऐश्वर्य (aiśvarya) n. the state of being a mighty lord, sovereignty, supremacy, power, sway, Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa (Title) xiii; Mahābhārata (Title); Manu-smṛti (Title) &c. [ ID=40558 ]
- dominion  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > dominion, Kathāsaritsāgara (Title) [ ID=40559 ]

### Superhuman or Divine Powers (1 definition)
- superhuman power  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > superhuman power (either perpetual or transient, consisting, according to some, of the following eight: अणिमन् (aṇiman), लघिमन् (laghiman), महिमन् (mahiman), प्राप्ति (prāpti), प्राकाम्य (prākāmya), वशित्व (vaśitva), ईशित्व (īśitva), and कामा (kāmā) वसायित्व (vasāyitva), qq.v.; or, according to others, of such powers as vision, audition, cogitation, discrimination, and omniscience; and of active powers such as swiftness of thought, power of assuming forms at will, and faculty of expatiation, Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha (Title) &c.) [ ID=40560 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

The Sanskrit Lexicon app for iPhone, iPad and Mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sanskrit-lexicon-dictionary/id6746787546