ध्यानdhyāna

ध्यान (dhyāna) is a Sanskrit word meaning meditation, thought, reflection, mental representation of the personal attributes of a deity, insensibility, dulness, name of a particular personification, the eleventh day of the light half in Brahma's month, divine intuition or discernment. Its 18 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them General Meditation, Thought, and Reflection, Mental Representation of Deity, Specific Names and Entities.

Roots: गम् (gam), स्था (sthā), ध्या (dhyā)
Etymology: E. ध्यै to meditate, affix ल्युट्
Definitions: 18

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General Meditation, Thought, and Reflection

12 definitions

meditation, thought, reflection

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Meditation, reflection, or contemplation

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Abstract contemplation or religious meditation

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Meditation or religious contemplation.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Profound meditation and reflection bringing an object fully before the mind. 2. Mental representation of the attributes of a deity being worshipped.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Meditation or reflection

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Meditation or reflection. 2. Religious meditation. 3. Divine intuition. 4. Mental representation of a deity's attributes.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Deep meditation and reflection. 2. Mental representation of the attributes of a deity.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Religious meditation. 2. Intuition.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

thought, reflection, religious meditation

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

meditation

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. Meditation, thought, or reflection, especially profound and abstract religious contemplation. 2. Divine intuition or discernment. 3. Mental representation of the personal attributes of a deity.

ध्यान (dhyāna) [Printed book page 0461-a]
Dhyāna, am, n. meditation, thought, reflection,

especially profound and abstract religious contem-

plation; divine intuition or discernment; mental

representation of the personal attributes of a deity;

(as), m., N. of the eleventh day in the light half in

Brahmā's month. —Dhyāna-gamya, as, ā, am,

attainable by meditation or reflection. —Dhyāna-

gocara, as, m., N. of a class of Buddhist deities;

[cf. dhyānāvacara.] —Dhyāna-japya, ās, m. pl.,

N. of a race. —Dhyāna-tatpara, as, ā, am, lost in

thought, absorbed in meditation, reflecting, medi-

tative. —Dhyāna-dīpa, as, m. ‘the lamp of medi-

tation,’ N. of a work. —Dhyāna-dyuti, is, m., N.

of a man. —Dhyāna-niṣṭha, as, ā, am, engaged

in meditation, contemplative, lost in thought. —Dhyā-

na-para, as, ā, am, = dhyāna-tatpara. —Dhyāna-

pāramitā, f., see pāramitā. —Dhyāna-phala, am,

n. ‘the fruit of meditation,’ N. of a chapter of the

Purāṇa-sarva-sva by Halāyudha. —Dhyāna-bhaṅga,

as, m. interruption of thought or meditation.

—Dhyāna-maya, as, ī, am, consisting of reflection

or meditation. —Dhyāna-mātra, am, n. mere re-

flection, thought alone. —Dhyāna-mudrā, f. the

prescribed attitude in which to meditate on the deity.

—Dhyāna-yoga, as, m. profound meditation, the

performance of religious abstraction, (also explained

as a Dvandva, meditation and abstraction); N. of a

kind of magic mentioned in the Yoga-ratna-mālā,

‘destroying one's enemies by images formed in the

mind.’ —Dhyāna-lakṣaṇa, am, n. ‘the mark of

meditation,’ N. of a chapter of the Purāṇa-sarva-sva.

—Dhyāna-vat, ān, atī, at, occupied in or intent

on religious meditation. —Dhyāna-vindūpaniṣad

(°du-up°), t, f., N. of an Upaniṣad belonging to

the Atharva-veda. —Dhyāna-stha, as, ā, am, ab-

sorbed in meditation; lost in thought. —Dhyānā-

vacara (°na-av°), ās, m. pl., N. of a class of

Buddhist deities; [cf. dhyāna-gocara.] [ID=23623]

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Mental Representation of Deity

2 definitions

mental representation of the personal attributes of a deity

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Mental representation of the personal attributes of a deity

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Specific Names and Entities

2 definitions

Name of a particular personification

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the eleventh day of the light half in Brahma's month

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Divine Intuition/Discernment

1 definition

Divine intuition or discernment

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Insensibility/Dulness

1 definition

insensibility, dulness

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 11 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 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, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.