त्याग (tyāga) is a Sanskrit word meaning leaving, abandoning, quitting a place, discharging or secretion, giving up, resigning, gift, donation, or distribution, sacrificing one's life, liberality. Its 17 recorded definitions are grouped into 8 contexts, among them Broad Sense: Multiple Forms of Relinquishment/Giving, Act of Leaving/Abandoning/Quitting, A Sage or Renunciate.
3 A sage, one who separates himself from worldly thoughts.
E. त्यज (tyaja) to abandon, घञ् (ghañ) aff.
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— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A gift or donation. 2. Abandoning or forsaking.
त्याग (tyāga) [Printed book page 342-b] त्याग (tyāga)(गः) ((gaḥ)) 1. m. A gift, donation; abandoning; a sage, forsaking all. [ID=17443]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Leaving, forsaking, or deserting. 2. Giving up, resigning, or renouncing. 3. A gift or donation. 4. Liberality or generosity. 5. Secretion or excretion.
[Printed book page 317-02] त्याग (tyāga)m. 1. Leaving, forsaking, deserting, separation, न माता न पिता न स्त्री न पुत्रस्त्याग (tyāga)मर्हति (na mātā na pitā na strī na putrastyāgamarhati)M. viii.319; 2. giving up, resigning, renouncing, Bg. xii.41; 3. gift, donation, त्याग (tyāga)ाय संभृतार्थानाम् (tyāgāya saṃbhṛtārthānām)R. i.17; 4. liberality, generosity, R. i.22; 5. secretion, excretion. [ID=15994]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Gift or donation. 2. Abandoning or leaving. 3. A sage detached from worldly thoughts.
त्याग (tyāga) [Printed book page 322-a] त्याग (tyāga)
1. Leaving, abandoning, or giving up. 2. Donation or sacrifice.
त्याग (tyāga) [Printed book page 210] त्याग (tyāga)m. leaving, abandoning, rejecting, avoiding, giving up; donation, sacrifice (also fig. of one's life); also = seq. [ID=12761]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Leaving, abandoning, or renouncing.
2. Giving, donating, or distributing.
3. Discharging or excreting.
4. Liberality or generosity.
5. Sacrificing one's life.
6. A sage who has renounced the world.
त्याग (tyāga) [Printed book page 0387-a] Tyāga, as, m. leaving, letting go, abandoning, forsaking, parting from, deserting, renouncing, separa- tion; discharging; dismissing; giving up, resigning; gift, donation, distribution; sacrificing one's life; liberality, generosity, prodigality; secretion, excretion; a sage, one who separates himself from the world; [cf. ātma-t°, tanu-t°, deha-t°.] —Tyāga-pattra,am, n. a bill of divorcement. —Tyāga-maya, as, ī,am, consisting only in giving or in donation. —Tyāga-yuta, as, ā, am, liberal. —Tyāga-śīla,as, ā, am, disposed to give away, generous, liberal. —Tyāgaśīla-tā, f. or tyāgaśīla-tva, am, n. generosity. [ID=21476]
1. Viewing the useful and useless equally. 2. Renunciation from affection, desire, and difficulty. 3. Giving up all actions with an equal eye on good and evil. 4. The result of knowledge and precursor to detachment, though difficult to achieve.
त्याग (tyāga) [Printed book page 2-038] Tyāga — is to look on the useful and the useless equally; renunciation from affection, desire and difficulty; giving up of all Karmas and having an equal eye on good and evil;1 result of Jñāna or knowledge; gives the result of Karma, but difficult to achieve;2 leads to Vairāgya.3 [Footnote: 1) Vā. 59. 53.]
[Footnote: 2) Br. IV. 3. 45.]
[Footnote: 3) Vā. 102. 66.] [ID=5583]
— The Purana Index
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Definitions on this page come from 10 works:
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, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
