# मौन (mauna)

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मौन (mauna) is a Sanskrit word meaning a descendant of Muni, a dynasty, the fifteenth day in the dark half of the month Phalguṇa, the position of a holy sage, silence, taciturnity, silence or taciturnity. Its 16 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them Silence / Taciturnity, Observance of Silence and Associated Terms, Dynastic Name.

- **Roots:** चर् (car), कृ (kṛ), धा (dhā)
- **Etymology:** E. मुनि a sage, (who practices it,) and अण् aff — E. muni a sage, (who practices it,) and aṇ aff
- **SLP1:** `mOna`  **IAST:** mauna  **Devanagari:** मौन
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_%28silence%29
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/mauna/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Silence / Taciturnity (7 definitions)
- silence, taciturnity  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > silence, taciturnity, ChUp.; Mn.; MBh. &c. ( मौनं (maunaṃ) with √ कृ (kṛ), or वि - (vi-) √ धा (√dhā) or सम् - आ - (sam-ā-) √ चर् (√car), to observe silence, hold one's tongue). [ ID=168758 ]
- Silence  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 676 ] मौन (mauna) n. ( - नं (-naṃ) ) Silence, taciturnity. E. मुनि (muni) a sage, (who practices it,) and अण् (aṇ) aff. [ ID=31081 ]
- Silence  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 606-a ] मौन (mauna) ( नं ) ((naṃ)) 1. n. Silence. [ ID=30634 ]
- Silence, taciturnity  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 587-34 ] मौन (mauna) n. Silence, taciturnity, R. i.22, Bg. x.38. [ ID=31029 ]
- Silence  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 580-b ] मौन (mauna) n. ( - नं (-naṃ) ) Silence, taciturnity. E. मुनि (muni) a sage, (who practises,) अण् (aṇ) aff. [ ID=32272 ]
- Silence  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 0728-b ] मौन (mauna) mauna, i. e. muni + a, n. Silence, taciturnity, Hit. i. d. 134, M.M.; Pañc. iv. d. 51. — Comp. Cintā-, n. silent thinking, Vikr. d. 130. [ ID=11619 ]
- silence  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 220-b ] mauná, n. silence. [ múni, 1208d.] [ ID=3354 ]

### Observance of Silence and Associated Terms (3 definitions)
- the fifteenth day in the dark half of the month Phalguṇa  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1B) [Printed book page 836,3] मौनी (maunī) ( ई (ī) ), f. N. of the 15th day in the dark half of the month Phālguna (when a partic. form of ablution is performed in silence), Col. [ ID=168756 ]
- 1. The condition of an ascetic. 2. Silence.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 236-3 ] मौन (mauna) mauná, n. condition of a Muni or ascetic; silence ( -ṃ vi-dhā or sam-ā-car, observe silence, hold oneʼs tongue): -dhārin, a. Page237-1 observing silence; -vṛtti, a. observing the vow of silence; -vrata, n. vow of silence; a. observing the vow of silence; -vratin, a. id.. [ ID=14576 ]
- 1. Silence or taciturnity. 2. The office or position of a holy sage.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 0799-b ] मौन (mauna) mauna, as, m. (fr. muni ), a patro- nymic; ( ās ), m. pl., N. of a dynasty; ( ī ), f., N. of the fifteenth day in the dark half of the month Phālguna, when a ceremony of bathing in silence is performed; ( am ), n. the office or position of a Muni or holy sage; silence, taciturnity. —Mauna- bhaṭṭa, as, m. a proper N. —Mauna-mantrāva- bodha (°ra-av°), as, m., N. of a work by Sundara- śukla. —Mauna-mudrā, f. the Mudrā or attitude of silence. —Mauna-vrata, am, n. a vow of silence; ( as, ā, am ), observing a vow of silence, holding one's tongue; [cf. muni-vrata. ] —Maunavrata- dhārin, ī, iṇī, i, or mauna-vratin, ī, inī, i, ob- serving a vow of silence. —Mauna-sammati, is, f. silent assent. [ ID=38181 ]

### Dynastic Name (2 definitions)
- a dynasty  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > pl. N. of a dynasty, VP. [ ID=168755 ]
- eleven kings who ruled for three centuries  
  *The Purana Index*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 2-743 ] Maunas — eleven of them ruled as kings, (18 kings- Vā. P. ); for three centuries, while the total reign of Ābhīras, Gardabhins, Kankas, Yavanas, Turuṣkas and Guruṇḍas amounted to 1099 (1009 Vi. P. ) years. Thereafter came the Maunas. Bhā. XII. 1. 30-32; Br. III. 74. 173-7; Vā. 99. 360; Vi. IV. 24. 53-54. [ ID=11106 ]

### Patronymic from Muni (2 definitions)
- a descendant of Muni  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1) [Printed book page 836,3] मौन (mauna) m. ( fr. मुनि (muni) ) a patr. ĀśvŚr. [ ID=168754 ]
- descendant of Muni  
  *The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 2-181 ] Mauna, ‘descendant of Muni,’ is the patronymic of Aṇīcin in the Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa (xxiii. 5). [ ID=2544 ]

### State/Office of a Muni (2 definitions)
- the position of a holy sage  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > [Printed book page 837,1] मौन (mauna) n. the office or position of a Muni or holy sage, ŚBr.; MBh. [ ID=168757 ]
- the condition of a holy sage; silence.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > मौन (mauna) [Printed book page 422 ] मौन (mauna) n. the condition of a Muni or holy sage; silence. [ ID=25478 ]

## Sources

Definitions from 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 Purana Index; 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, University of Cologne.

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