— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
शान्तिśānti
शान्ति (śānti) is a Sanskrit word meaning tranquillity, peace, or calmness of mind, absence of passion, averting of pain, indifference to objects of pleasure or pain, alleviation of pain or evil, cessation or abatement. Its 45 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them Proper Name (Male/Deity/Sage/Title), Mental Peace and Tranquillity, Specific Conceptual/Technical Term.
- Root
- 2. शम् (2. śam)
- Definitions
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Meanings by context
Proper Name (Male/Deity/Sage/Title)
20 definitions
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Śānti1, an Indra. § 238 (Pañcendrop.): I, 197, 7304 (the
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
— The Purana Index
— The Purana Index
Śānti (V) — a son of Kṛṣṇa and Kālindī. Bhā. X. 61. 14. [ID=14290]
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[Footnote: 1) Br. IV. 1. 69.]
[Footnote: 2) Vi. III. 2. 26.]
[ID=14294]
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Mental Peace and Tranquillity
8 definitions
शान्ति (śānti) f. tranquillity, peace, quiet, peace or calmness of mind, absence of passion, averting of pain (शान्ति (śānti)! शान्ति (śānti)! शान्ति (śānti)! may the three kinds of pain be averted!), indifference to objects of pleasure or pain, Kaṭha-upaniṣad (Title) ; Mahābhārata (Title) &c. [ID=215338]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
शान्ति (śānti) śā́n-ti, f. [√2. śam] mental tranquility,
peace of mind; extinction (of fire);
abatement, alleviation, cessation, removal;
propitiatory rite for averting evil (rare);
peace, good fortune, prosperity; destruction
(rare); eternal rest, decease, death (rare). [ID=17752]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
शान्ति (śānti) f. (-न्तिः (-ntiḥ))
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
शान्ति (śānti) (न्तिः) ((ntiḥ)) 2. f. Quiet, tranquillity, stoicism; rest; felicity; a propitiatory rite; alleviation. m. A Jaina. [ID=37711]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
शान्ति (śānti)
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
शान्ति (śānti) śānti, i. e. śam + ti, f. 1.
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
शान्ति (śānti) f. tranquillity, peace of mind; averting of an evil omen, expiation; welfare, bliss; stopping, ceasing, extinction (of fire), destruction, end, death. [ID=32222]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Śānti, is, f. quiet, quietness, tranquillity, calmness, peace, ease, quietism, absence of passion, indifference to objects of pleasure or pain; rest, repose, remission; appeasing, pacification, allayment, alleviation, conso- lation, solace, satisfaction, reconciliation, settlement of differences; appeasing the stomach, satisfying hunger; any expiatory or propitiatory rite for avert- ing evil or calamity; Expiation (personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma); ceasing, cessation; causing to cease; good fortune, auspicious- ness, felicity; preservation; (is), m., N. of the Indra of the tenth Manv-antara; of a pupil of Aṅgiras; of a king; the sixteenth Jina or Jaina deified sage
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of the present era; one of the Jaina emperors of the universe. —Śānti-kara, as, ī, am, causing tran- quillity, calming, appeasing, soothing, consolatory. —Śānti-kartṛ, tā, trī, tṛ, causing tranquillity, calming, allaying; (tā), m. any divinity who averts evil. —Śānti-karman, a, n. any action leading to tranquillity or for averting evil. —Śānti-kāma, as, m. desire of tranquillity; (as, ā, am), desirous of tranquillity. —Śānti-gṛha, am, n. a room for rest or retirement near the place of sacrifice. —Śānti- candrikā, f., N. of a poem by Kavi-candra. —Śān- ti-jala, am, n. = śānty-uda. —Śānti-da, as, ā, am, giving tranquillity, tranquillizing. —Śānti-devā, f., N. of a daughter of Devaka. —Śānti-parvan, a, n. ‘Tranquillizing-section,’ N. of the twelfth book of the Mahā-bhārata, (the longest in the whole poem and consisting chiefly of stories, discourses, and epi- sodes narrated for the tranquillizing of the troubled spirit of Yudhi-ṣṭhira after the termination of the war and the slaughter of his many relatives.) —Śānti- purāṇa, am, n., N. of a Jaina work by Aśaga. —Śānti-ratna, am, n. ‘jewel of tranquillity,’ N. of a work. —Śānti-vrata, am, n., N. of a particular religious observance (kept on the fifth day of the light half of the month Kārttika). —Śānti-śataka, am, n. ‘a hundred verses on tranquillity,’ N. of a short poem by Śrī-śihlana. —Śānti-śīla, as, m. ‘quiet-tempered,’ a proper N. —Śānti-sarvasva, am, n. ‘essence of quietism,’ N. of a work. —Śānti- sūkta, am, n., N. of a hymn on quietism. —Śānti- sūri, is, m., N. of the author of a Jaina work. —Śānti-homa, as, m. a propitiatory oblation, a burnt offering to avert or remedy evil. —Śānty- uda or śānty-udaka, am, n. propitiatory water, water offered at sacrifices for propitiation, lustral water. —Śāntyuda-kumbha, as, m. a vessel holding propitiatory water. [ID=46448]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)
Specific Conceptual/Technical Term
5 definitions
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— The Purana Index
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Śānti (XIII) — one of the four fruits of Prāṇāyāma, the ruin of all sins of the Pitrs and cognates. Vā. 11. 6. [ID=14298]
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Proper Name (Female/Personification)
3 definitions
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
Śānti (I) — a daughter of Kardama, married to Athar- vaṇa: Dadhyañca was her son. Yajña was popularised in the world by her. Bhā. III. 24. 24; IV. 1. 42. [ID=14286]
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Cessation/Alleviation of Negativity
2 definitions
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
śā́nti, f. a ceasing, stopping; esp. the absence of the evil results of some word or thing of evil omen. [√2śam, ‘be quiet,’ cf. 955a.] [ID=4165]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
Name of a River
2 definitions
— The Purana Index
Śānti — a R. from the lake Jayā. M. 121. 71; Vā. 47. 71. [ID=14305]
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Propitiatory/Expiatory Rite
2 definitions
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naiṛṛtī for fear of ghosts and spirits, yāmyā for bad dreams, kauberi for loss of wealth, pārthivī for loss of trees and lands. These are to be done at particular times of the day when certain nakṣatras like Hasta, Svāti are in the ascendant. M. 228. 5-27. [ID=14297]
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Destruction, End, Death
1 definition
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Pause or Interruption
1 definition
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Welfare and Prosperity
1 definition
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Definitions on this page come from 11 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, 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, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.