1. Living, existing, or a living being.
2. Causing to live or vivifying.
3. The principle of life, vital breath, or individual soul.
4. Livelihood, profession, or specific occupation.
5. A kind of plant.
6. An epithet of Brihaspati.
7. The third lustrum in the sixty-year cycle of Jupiter.
8. One of the eight Maruts.
9. An epithet of Karna.
10. Life or existence.
11. Water.
12. The earth.
13. A bow-string.
14. The chord or sine of an arc.
15. The tinkling of metallic ornaments.
जीव (jīva) [Printed book page 0348-b] Jīva, as, ā, am, living, existing, a living being;
causing to live, vivifying; (
as), m. the principle of
life, the vital breath, the living or personal soul in-
corporated in the body and imparting to it life, motion,
and sensation, (hence also called
jīvātman; it is
distinguished from the
paramātman or supreme
soul, q. v.); livelihood, profession, specific occupa-
tion; a kind of plant; an epithet of Bṛhaspati as
regent of the planet Jupiter; or as regent of the
Nakṣatra Tiṣya or Puṣya; the third lustrum in
the cycle of Jupiter which lasts sixty years; N. of
one of the eight Maruts; an epithet of Karṇa; (
as, am), m. n. life, existence; (
ā), f. the living or life-
giving element, i. e. water; the earth; a bow-string;
(in geometry) the chord of an arc, the sine of an
arc; the tinkling of metallic ornaments; N. of two
plants,
= jīvantī and
vacā; [cf. Lith. gywas, ‘alive;’
Goth. qvivs; Lat. vivus; Gr. βίος; Hib. beo,
‘living, alive.’]
—Jīva-gṛbh, -ghṛp, p, p, Ved.
taking alive, seizing beings alive.
—Jīva-graha, as, m., Ved. filling (a cup) with the living Soma, i. e.
with the plant in its unpressed state.
—Jīva-grāha, as, m. a prisoner, one taken alive;
jīva-grāhaṃ grah, to capture alive.
—Jīva-ghoṣa-svāmin, ī, m., N. of a grammarian.
—Jīva-ja, as, ā, am, born
alive.
—Jīva-jīva or
jīva-jīvaka, as, m. a kind of
bird; see the next.
—Jīvañ-jīva, as, m. a kind of
bird supposed to be a pheasant; the Chakor or
Greek partridge; a kind of tree.
—Jīva-tokā, f. a
woman whose children are living.
—Jīva-tva, am, n. the state of life or existence.
—1. jīva-da, as, ā, am (rt.
dā), ‘life-giving,’ who or what gives life;
(
as), m. a physician, a practitioner of medicine.
—2. jīva-da, as, m. (rt.
do), ‘cutting off life,’ an enemy.
—Jīva-daśā, f. mortal existence.
—Jīva-dātrī, f.
‘life-giver,’ a kind of medicinal plant,
= ṛddhi. Page0348-c+ 81 —Jīva-dāna, am, n. ‘giving life,’ ‘rescuing from
sickness,’ title of a manual of medicine composed by
Cyavana.
—Jīva-dānu, us, us, u, Ved. a wrong
form for
jīra-dānu, q. v.
—Jīva-dāman, ā, m., N.
of a prince.
—Jīva-dāyaka, as, ā, am, ‘life-giving.’
—Jīva-dhana, am, n. ‘living wealth,’ property in
living creatures, live stock, wealth in flocks and
herds.
—Jīva-dhanya, as, ā, am, ‘supporting living
beings;’ (Sāy.) ‘satiating living beings,’ an epithet of
Soma, and of Prajā-pati.
—Jīva-dhānī, f. ‘receptacle
of living beings,’ an epithet of the earth.
—Jīva-naś, k, k, k, or
ṭ, ṭ, ṭ, (a sacrifice &c.) where living beings
are killed.
—Jīva-nātha, as, m., N. of a writer on
astronomy; N. of a physician.
—Jīva-nāya or
jīva- nāyaka, as, m., N. of a poet.
—Jīva-nāśam, ind.
with
naś, to lose one's life, die, perish.
—Jīva- nikāya, as, m. a being endowed with life.
—Jīva- netrī, f., N. of a plant,
= saiṃhalī.
—Jīva-pati, is, m. a living husband.
—Jīva-pattra, am, n. a fresh leaf.
—Jīvapattra-pracāyikā, f. gathering fresh leaves,
a sort of game.
—Jīva-patnī, f. a woman whose hus-
band is alive.
—Jīva-pitṛ, tā, trī, tṛ, or
jīva- pitṛka, as, ā, am, a son or daughter whose father
is still alive.
—Jīva-pīta-sarga, as, ā, am, Ved.
one whose rays are drunk by living beings; (Sāy.)
one whose creation is enjoyed by all.
—Jīva-putra, as, ā or
ī, am, one whose sons or children are living;
(
as), m. a kind of plant.
—Jīva-putraka, as, m.
a tree, commonly Ingua; another plant bearing
seeds used in rosaries, commonly Jiyaputa, Nageia
Putranjiva.
—Jīvaputra-pracāyikā, f. the gathering
of the above plant, a sort of game.
—Jīva-purā, f., Ved. the abode of living beings or men.
—Jīva- puṣpa, am, n. ‘flower of life,’ N. of a plant
and metaphorically applied to the head; N. of
two plants,
= damanaka and
phaṇijjhaka; (ā), f.,
N. of a plant,
= bṛhaj-jīvantī.
—Jīva-priyā, f. the
tree Terminalia Chebula,
= harītakī.
—Jīva-badha, as, m. destruction of living beings.
—Jīva-barhis, is, is, is, Ved. having a living, i. e. fresh bed of
sacrificial grass.
—Jīva-bhadrā, f. a kind of plant,
= jīvantī; a kind of medicinal plant,
= vṛddhi. —Jīva-bhūta, as, ā, am, become alive, endowed
with life.
—Jīva-bhojana, as, ā, am, Ved. giving
enjoyment to living beings; (
am), n. the pleasure or
enjoyment of living beings.
—Jīva-mandira, am, n. ‘the mansion of the soul,’ the body.
—Jīva- maya, as, ī, am, animated, endowed with life.
—Jīva-miśra, as, m., N. of an author.
—Jīva- yāja, as, m., Ved. the sacrifice of living beings.
—Jīva-yoni, is, is, i, enclosing a soul (as a body
or a sentient being).
—Jīva-rakta, am, n. living
blood, menstrual blood.
—Jīva-rahita, as, ā, am, lifeless.
—Jīva-loka, as, m. the world or habitation
of living beings (opposed to the world of deceased
ancestors), living beings, mankind.
—Jīva-laukika, as, ā, am, peculiar to the world of living beings or
to men.
—Jīva-vat, ān, atī, at, animated, living;
—Jīva-vallī, f., N. of a plant.
—Jīva-vicāra, as, m. title of a Jaina work.
—Jīvavicāra-prakaraṇa, am, n. title of a Jaina work by Śānti-sūri.
—Jīva- vṛtti, is, f. breeding or keeping cattle.
—Jīva- śaṃsa, as, m., Ved. rule over living beings; (Sāy.)
to be praised by living beings.
—Jīva-śarman, ā, m., N. of an astronomer.
—Jīva-śāka, as, m. a
kind of pot-herb growing in Mālava.
—Jīva-śuklā, f. a kind of plant.
—Jīva-śeṣa, as, ā, am, one to
whom only life is left or who has escaped with his
life and nothing more.
—Jīva-śoṇita, am, n. living,
i. e. healthy blood.
—Jīva-śreṣṭhā, f. a kind of
medicinal plant.
—Jīva-saṅkramaṇa, am, n. me-
tempsychosis.
—Jīva-sañjña, as, m., N. of a shrub,
= kāma-vṛddhi.
—Jīva-sādhana, am, n. ‘means
of subsistence,’ rice, grain.
—Jīva-sāphalya, am, n.
‘fruitfulness of life,’ realisation of a life's wishes.
—Jīva-suta, as, ā, am, one whose children are all
alive.
—Jīva-sū, ūs, f. the mother of living offspring.
—Jīva-sthāna, am, n. a joint, an articulation.
—Jīvājīvādhāra (°va-ajīva-ādh°), as, m. the world
of organic beings and of inorganic matter.
—Jīvā- jīvādhāra-kṣetra, am, n. the material world, the
Page0349-a+ 81 receptacle of inorganic beings and inorganic substances.
—Jīvātman (°va-āt°), ā, m. the living or individual
soul enshrined in the human body (distinguished from
the
paramātman or supreme soul), the vital principle
or spirit, that principle of life which renders the body
capable of motion or sensation; [cf.
jīva.]
—Jīvā- dāna (°va-ād°), am, n. abstracting living or healthy
blood, bleeding.
—Jīvādhāna (°va-ādh°), am, n.
preservation of life.
—Jīvāntaka (°va-an°), as, m. a
fowler, a birdcatcher; a destroyer of life, a slayer, a
murderer.
—Jīvābhigama-sūtra (°va-abh°), am, n.
title of a Jaina work.
—Jīvāśa (°va-āśa), as, ā, am, hoping for life; (
ā), f. hope of living.
—Jīvāstikāya (°va-as°), as, m. (with Jainas) the category of ‘soul.’
—Jīvendhana (°va-in°), am, n. glowing fire-wood,
burning wood.
—Jīvotsarga (°va-ut°), as, m. aban-
donment of life, voluntary death.
—Jīvorṇā (°va- ūr°), f. the wool of a living animal.
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