आनन्दānanda

आनन्द (ānanda) is a Sanskrit word meaning happiness or joy, enjoyment, especially sensual pleasure, in dramatic language, the thing wished for, the end of a drama, a kind of flute, the sixteenth Muhurta. Its 33 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them General: Happiness, Joy, Bliss, Proper Name: Deities/Divine Beings, Proper Name: Persons.

Etymology: E. आङ्, नदि to be or make happy घञ् aff
Definitions: 33

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Meanings by context

General: Happiness, Joy, Bliss

9 definitions

Happiness or joy; enjoyment, especially sensual pleasure

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Joy, bliss, or sensual pleasure

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Happiness or joy. 2. Balarama. 3. God or the Supreme Spirit. 4. A plant.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Happiness or joy. 2. God. 3. A plant.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Happiness or joy. 2. An epithet of Shiva.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Happiness and joy. 2. Balarama in the Jaina system. 3. God or the Supreme Spirit in Vedanta. 4. A plant.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Joy. 2. Sensual pleasure. 3. Happiness and bliss.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

joy, pleasure, bliss

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Happiness, joy, or sensual pleasure. 2. An epithet of Shiva. 3. God, the supreme spirit according to Vedanta.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Proper Name: Deities/Divine Beings

7 definitions

Name of Shiva

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

of a Lokeshvara

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

of a Bala

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of Gauri

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Vishnu

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

a Satya god

— The Purana Index

The realm of Brahma during the first kalpa lasting one hundred lakh years.

— The Purana Index

Proper Name: Persons

5 definitions

of several men

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of one of the chief disciples of Gautama Buddha

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of various authors and others

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

one of the warriors of Skanda

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

A son of Medhatithi, and a region named after him in Plakshadvipa.

— The Purana Index

Philosophical: Supreme Spirit / Attribute of Brahman

2 definitions

Pure happiness, one of the three attributes of Atman or Brahman in Vedanta philosophy

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

The supreme spirit in Vedanta philosophy

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Proper Name: Place/Region

2 definitions

of a country

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a kingdom adjoining the Dundubhi hill in Plakshadvipa

— The Purana Index

Proper Name: Plant

2 definitions

Name of two plants

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of two plants

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Specific Objects

2 definitions

a kind of flute

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a kind of house

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Time Division

2 definitions

the sixteenth Muhurta

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Name of the forty-eighth year of the cycle of Jupiter

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Dramaturgical Term

1 definition

In dramatic language, the thing wished for; the end of a drama

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Lexicographical Note: Usage in Names

1 definition

Often used at the beginning or end of proper names

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 11 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 (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.