# हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa)

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हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) is a Sanskrit word meaning friendly advice or salutary instruction, a popular collection of fables and moral precepts, name of two works on medicine, friendly or proper advice, good advice, good counsel or instruction in what is salutary. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Salutary Advice or Instruction, Advice and Fable Collection Title, Other Works Named 'Hitopadeśa'.

- **SLP1:** `hitopadeSa`  **IAST:** hitopadeśa  **Devanagari:** हितोपदेश
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitopadesha
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/hitopadesha/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Salutary Advice or Instruction (4 definitions)
- friendly advice or salutary instruction  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 1298,3] हितो (hito) पदेश (padeśa) m. friendly advice, salutary instruction, Mahābhārata (Title); Pañcatantra (Title) &c. [ ID=262928 ]
- Friendly or proper advice.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > हित (hita) ोपदेश (hitopadeśa) [Printed book page 975 ] हित (hita) ोपदेश (hitopadeśa) m. ( - शः (-śaḥ) ) Friendly or proper advice. E. हित (hita) proper, and उपदेश (upadeśa) advice. [ ID=44255 ]
- Good advice  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) [Printed book page 900-b ] हितो _ पदेश (hito_padeśa) ( शः ) ((śaḥ)) 1. m. Good advice. [ ID=44082 ]
- Friendly or proper advice  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > हित (hita) ोपदेश (hitopadeśa) [Printed book page 833-b ] हित (hita) ोपदेश (hitopadeśa) m. ( - शः (-śaḥ) ) Friendly or proper advice. E. हित (hita) proper, उपदेश (upadeśa) advice. [ ID=46930 ]

### Advice and Fable Collection Title (3 definitions)
- 1. Good counsel or instruction in what is salutary. 2. A well-known collection of fables.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) [Printed book page 378-2 ] हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) hita‿upadeśa, m. instruction in what is salutary, good counsel; T. of a well-known collection of fables; -upadeṣṭṛ, m. instructor in what is salutary. [ ID=20529 ]
- salutary instruction or a collection of fables  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) [Printed book page 663 ] हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) m. salutary instruction, T. of a collection of fables. [ ID=39680 ]
- 1. Salutary instruction. 2. Name of a collection of fables.  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) [Printed book page 286-b ] hitopadeśa, m. salutary instruction; Hitopadeśa, name of a collection of fables. [ upadeśa. ] [ ID=4905 ]

### Other Works Named 'Hitopadeśa' (1 definition)
- name of two works on medicine  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of two works on medicine. [ ID=262930 ]

### The Fable Collection 'Hitopadeśa' (1 definition)
- a popular collection of fables and moral precepts  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of a popular collection of fables intermixed with didactic sentences and moral precepts (compiled by Nārāyaṇa, and supposed to be narrated by a Brahman named Viṣṇu-śarman to some young princes; it is chiefly founded on the Pañca-tantra q.v. ) [ ID=262929 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary; Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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