# वेदना (vedanā)

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वेदना (vedanā) is a Sanskrit word meaning announcing, proclaiming, perception or knowledge, making known, pain, torture, agony, feeling or sensation, one of the five skandhas in Buddhism. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 6 contexts, among them Announcing or Proclaiming, Knowledge and Perception, Pain and Suffering.

- **SLP1:** `vedanA`  **IAST:** vedanā  **Devanagari:** वेदना
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedan%C4%81
- **Declensions:** 24 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/vedana/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** वेदन (vedana)

## Meanings by context

### Announcing or Proclaiming (2 definitions)
- announcing, proclaiming  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 1016,3] 1. वेदन (vedana) mfn. (for 2. See p. 1017, col. 2) announcing, proclaiming (see भग - व् (bhaga-v) ° (°) ) [ ID=205919 ]
- making known  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > वेदन (vedana) n. making known, proclaiming, Rājat. [ ID=205921 ]

### Knowledge and Perception (2 definitions)
- perception or knowledge  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > वेदन (vedana) n. perception, knowledge, Nir.; MBh.; Kāv. &c. (rarely f( आ (ā) ). ) [ ID=205920 ]
- 1. Knowledge or perception. 2. Acquisition, wealth, or property. 3. Marriage. 4. Sensation or experience. 5. Pain, agony, or torment.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > वेदना (vedanā) [Printed book page 691-01 ] वेदना (vedanā) f. 1. Knowledge, perception; 2. acquisition, wealth, property; 3. marrying, marriage, M. iii.44; 4. sensation, experiencing. ( वेदना (vedanā) is used also in the sense of ‘pain, agony, torment,’ सहतां हतजीवितं मम प्रबलामात्मकृतेन वेदना (vedanā) म् (sahatāṃ hatajīvitaṃ mama prabalāmātmakṛtena vedanām) R. viii.50.) [ ID=36239.1 ]

### Pain and Suffering (2 definitions)
- pain, torture, agony  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2B) [Printed book page 1016,3] वेदना (vedanā) f. pain, torture, agony (also personified as a daughter of Anṛta), MBh.; R. &c. (exceptionally n. ) [ ID=205922 ]
- pain  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > वेदना (vedanā) [Printed book page 1186-b ] Vedanā, f. pain, &c., (this may also be am, n.) [ ID=55341 ]

### Mythological Figure (Vedanā) (1 definition)
- wife of Raurava Naraka  
  *The Purana Index*
  > वेदना (vedanā) [Printed book page 3-318 ] Vedanā — married Raurava Naraka; son born of Vedanā and Māyā was Duhkham. Vā. 10. 40-1; Br. II. 9. 64. [ ID=13577 ]

### Sensation and Feeling (1 definition)
- 1. Feeling or sensation. 2. One of the five skandhas in Buddhism.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > वेदन (vedana) n. feeling, sensation, Yājñ.; Śiś. (with Buddhists one of the 5 Skandhas, Monier-Williams’ Buddhism in its connexion with Brāhmaṇism and Hindūism: and in its contrast with Christianity (Title) 109 ) [ ID=205923 ]

### Skin or Cutis (1 definition)
- the true skin or cutis  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > वेदनी (vedanī) f. the true skin or cutis, L. [ ID=205924 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); The Purana Index; Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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