1. Extinguished, put out, or blown out. 2. Lost or disappeared. 3. Liberated from existence, dead, or deceased. 4. Set, as a planet. 5. Calmed or quieted. 6. Immersed or plunged. 7. Extinction, disappearance, or vanishing. 8. Dissolution, final emancipation, eternal bliss, or union with the Supreme Spirit. 9. Absolute extinction of individual existence in Buddhism and Jainism. 10. Perfect and perpetual calm, repose, or satisfaction. 11. Cessation or stopping. 12. Vacuity or vacuum. 13. Union, blending, or confluence. 14. Bathing of an elephant. 15. Instructing in sciences.
निर्वाण (nirvāṇa) [Printed book page 0500-c] 1.
nir-vāṇa, as, ā, am (for 2.
nir-vāṇa see p. 501,
col. 1), blown out, gone out, put out, extinguished
(as a fire); lost, disappeared; liberated from exist-
ence (lit. having the fire of life extinguished); dead,
deceased, defunct; set (as a planet); calmed, quieted,
(
a-nirvāṇa, an elephant not yet tamed or one
just caught and wild); immersed, plunged; (
am), n.
blowing out, extinguishing, extinction, (in this and
some of the following senses
nir-vāṇam is not the
neut. of the pass. part. but formed fr.
nir-vā with
affix
ana), becoming extinguished, disappearance,
setting, vanishing from sight, (
nirvāṇaṃ kṛ, to
act as if nothing had happened, not to keep one's
promise); extinction of the flame of life, dissolution,
liberation, eternal bliss, final emancipation from
matter and reunion with the deity, union with the
Supreme Spirit; (with Buddhists and Jainas) absolute
extinction or annihilation, complete extinction of
individual existence; perfect and perpetual calm,
repose; complete satisfaction or pleasure, highest
felicity; desisting, leaving off, cessation; vacuity,
vacuum; union, association, blending, confluence; of-
fering oblations, (perhaps wrongly for 1.
nir-vāpaṇa);
bathing of an elephant (because he draws in water
with his trunk and then blows it out over his body);
instructing in sciences; ‘Deliverance,’ N. of an Upa-
niṣad; [cf.
apa-n°, pari-n°.]
—Nirvāṇa-purāṇa, am, n. offering oblations to the dead.
—Nirvāṇa- prakaraṇa, am, n., N. of the fourth chapter of
the Vāsiṣṭha-rāmāyaṇa, commonly called Yoga-
vāsiṣṭha.
—Nirvāṇa-bhūyiṣṭha, as, ā, am, almost
all vanished or departed.
—Nirvāṇa-maṇḍapa, N.
of a temple.
—Nirvāṇa-mantra, am, n., N. of a
mystical formula.
—Nirvāṇa-mastaka, as, m. libe-
ration, deliverance.
—Nirvāṇa-ruci, ayas, m. pl.
‘delighting in final beatitude,’ N. of a class of
Page0501-a+ 73 deities under the eleventh Manu; [cf.
nirmāṇa-rati.]
—Nirvāṇa-lakṣaṇa, as, ā, am, having complete
felicity as its characteristic mark.
—Nirvāṇa-sūtra, am, n., N. of certain Buddhist Sūtras.
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