# क्षान्ति (kṣānti)

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क्षान्ति (kṣānti) is a Sanskrit word meaning patient waiting for anything, patience, forbearance, endurance, indulgence, the state of saintly abstraction, name of a Shruti, name of a river, patience, forbearance, or forgiveness. Its 12 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Patience, Forbearance, Endurance, Name of a River, Name of a Śruti (Musical Note/Interval).

- **SLP1:** `kzAnti`  **IAST:** kṣānti  **Devanagari:** क्षान्ति
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshanti
- **Declensions:** 72 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/kshanti/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** क्षांति (kṣāṃti), क्षान्ती (kṣāntī)

## Meanings by context

### Patience, Forbearance, Endurance (9 definitions)
- patient waiting for anything  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 326,3] क्षान्ति (kṣānti) f. patient waiting for anything, Vopadeva (Author) xxiii, 3 [ ID=59113 ]
- patience, forbearance, endurance, indulgence  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > patience, forbearance, endurance, indulgence, Manu-smṛti (Title) v, 107; MBh.; R. &c. [ ID=59114 ]
- Patience, forbearance, or forgiveness  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > क्षान्ति (kṣānti) [Printed book page 078-1 ] क्षान्ति (kṣānti) kṣān-ti, f. id. : mat, a. patient, forbearing; -śīla, m. N. (patient). [ ID=6554 ]
- Patience, forbearance, endurance  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > क्षान्ति (kṣānti) [Printed book page 263 ] क्षान्ति (kṣānti) f. ( - न्तिः (-ntiḥ) ) Patience, forbearance, endurance. E. क्षम (kṣama) to be patient, affix क्तिन् (ktin). [ ID=12283 ]
- Patience  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > क्षान्ति (kṣānti) [Printed book page 226-b ] क्षान्ति (kṣānti) ( न्ति ) ((nti)) 2. f. Patience. [ ID=11736 ]
- Patience, forbearance, endurance.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > क्षान्ति (kṣānti) [Printed book page 216-a ] क्षान्ति (kṣānti) f. ( - न्तिः (-ntiḥ) ) Patience, forbearance, endurance. E. क्षम् (kṣam) to be patient, affix क्तिन् (ktin). [ ID=12277 ]
- Patience, forbearance  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > क्षान्ति (kṣānti) [Printed book page 0236-a ] क्षान्ति (kṣānti) kṣānti, i. e. kṣam + ti, f. Patience, forbearance, Man. 5, 107. [ ID=4045 ]
- Patience, forbearance, forgiveness  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > क्षान्ति (kṣānti) [Printed book page 140 ] क्षान्ति (kṣānti) f. = prec. n.; poss. ° मन्त् (°mant). [ ID=8832 ]
- patience, forbearance, endurance, indulgence  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > क्षान्ति (kṣānti) [Printed book page 0265-c ] Kṣānti, is, f. patience, forbearance, endurance, indulgence, patient waiting for anything. —Kṣānti- mat, ān, atī, at, patient, enduring, indulgent. —Kṣānti-vādin, ī, m., N. of a Ṛṣi; N. of Śākya-muni in one of his former births. [ ID=16393 ]

### Name of a River (1 definition)
- Name of a river  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > N. of a river, VP. [ ID=59117 ]

### Name of a Śruti (Musical Note/Interval) (1 definition)
- Name of a Shruti  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (in music) N. of a Śruti [ ID=59116 ]

### State of Saintly Abstraction (1 definition)
- the state of saintly abstraction  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > the state of saintly abstraction, Divyāvadāna (Title) vi, xii, xviii [ ID=59115 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); 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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