आयतन (āyatana) is a Sanskrit word meaning resting-place, home, or abode, the place of the sacred fire, an altar, a shed for sacrifices, a sanctuary, a plot of ground or the site of a house. Its 19 recorded definitions are grouped into 6 contexts, among them General Place, Dwelling, or Support, Sacred or Ritual Place, Barn or Storage Structure.
1. Abode or house. 2. An altar or sacrificial shed. 3. A ground plot or house site. 4. The cause of disease.
आयत (āyata)न (āyatana) [Printed book page 117] आयत (āyata)न (āyatana) n. (-नं (-naṃ))
1 Abode, house.
2 An altar, also a shed for sacrifices.
3 A ground plot, the site of a house, &c.
4 The cause of disease.
E. आयत (āyata) nominal root, to lengthen, affix ल्युट् (lyuṭ); extending from the house.
[ID=5657]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A house, resting place, or abode. 2. The place of the sacred fire. 3. A sanctuary. 4. A receptacle.
आयतन (āyatana) [Printed book page 105-18] आयतन (āyatana)n. 1. A resting place, a house, an abode; 2. the place of the sacred fire; 3. a sanctuary; 4. receptacle, abode, स्नेहस्तदेकायतनं जगाम (snehastadekāyatanaṃ jagāma)K.S. vii.5, R. iii.36. [ID=5288]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Abode or house.
2. An altar or sacrificial shed.
3. A ground plot or house site.
4. The cause of disease.
आयत (āyata)न (āyatana) [Printed book page 096-b] आयत (āyata)न (āyatana)
n. (-नं (-naṃ))
1. Abode, house.
2. An altar, also a shed for sacrifices. 3. A ground plot, the site of a house, &c.
4. The cause of disease. E. आयत (āyata) nominal root, to lengthen, affix ल्युट्; (lyuṭ;) extending from the house.
[ID=5655]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A place. 2. A seat. 3. An outhouse. 4. An altar.
आयतन (āyatana) [Printed book page 0083-b] आयतन (āyatana)āyatana,i. e.ā-yat + ana
n.1. A place, Cāṇ. 32. 2. A seat,
Man. 6, 77; Pañc. 32, 23. 3. An out-
house, Yājñ. 2, 154. 4. An altar,
Pañc. 199, 12. — Comp.Deva- and de-
vatā-,n. a temple, Man. 4, 46; 8, 248.
[ID=1625]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A foothold, support, or seat. 2. A sanctuary or fireplace. 3. A barn.
आयतन (āyatana) [Printed book page 065] आयतन (āyatana)n. foot-hold, support, seat, object of (—°); fire-place, sanctuary; barn. [ID=4449]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A resting-place. 2. A place for the sacred fire.
आयतन (āyatana) [Printed book page 126-a] āyátana,n. foot-hold; resting-place; esp. place of the sacred fire, fire-place. [√yat+ ā.] [ID=639]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
1. A resting-place, home, or abode. 2. A place for the sacred fire, altar, or sanctuary. 3. A ground-plot or site for a house. 4. An inner seat of perception. 5. The cause of disease.
आयतन (āyatana) [Printed book page 0126-b] Ā-yatana, am, n. resting-place, support, seat, place, home, house, abode; the place of the sacred fire, an altar, a shed for sacrifices; a sanctuary; a ground-plot, the site of a house; a barn; (with Bud- dhists) an inner seat (the five senses and Manas are considered as the six inner seats or āyatanas); the Page0126-c+ 75 cause of disease. —Āyatana-tva, am, n. state of being an altar or seat. —Āyatana-vat, ān, atī, at, Ved. having a certain seat or home; (ān), m., N. of the fourth foot of Brahmā. [ID=8987]
आयतन (āyatana) [Printed book page 1-060] Ā-yatana. — The general sense of ‘abode’ or ‘home’ appears to be limited in one passage of the Chāndogya Upaniṣad (vii. 24, 2) to the sense of ‘holy place,’ ‘sanctuary,’ which is found in the epic. [ID=247]
— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
Sacred or Ritual Place
5 definitions5
the place of the sacred fire
the place of the sacred fire (= अग्न्य्-आयतन (agny-āyatana)), Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra (Title) ; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra (Title) & Āśvalāyana-gṛhya-sūtra (Title) [ID=25730]
the five senses and Manas, along with their perceived qualities
(with Buddhists) the five senses and Manas (considered as the inner seats or Āyatanas) and the qualities perceived by the above (the outer Āyatanas). [ID=25737]
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Definitions on this page come from 11 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
