विक्षेप (vikṣepa) is a Sanskrit word meaning scattering or dispersion, casting, throwing, or discharging, moving to and fro, waving, shaking, or tossing, drawing a bow-string, letting loose, indulging, letting slip, neglecting. Its 24 recorded definitions are grouped into 13 contexts, among them Act of Throwing/Scattering/Dispersion, Letting Loose/Indulging/Neglecting, Physical Movement and Agitation.
1. Scattering or throwing.
2. Moving to and fro, waving, or tossing.
3. Inattention or distraction.
4. Projection or extension.
विक्षेप (vikṣepa) [Printed book page 280-2] विक्षेप (vikṣepa) vi-kṣepa, m. scattering about; casting, throwing; moving to and fro, waving,
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tossing (ord. mg.); inattention, distraction; projection or extension (a power of ignorance which causes the world to seem real: Vedānta phil.); -kṣepaṇa,n. moving to and fro; -kṣepa-śakti-mat,a. possessing the power of projection or extension. [ID=16468]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Casting or throwing away. 2. Sending or dispatching. 3. Confusion or perplexity. 4. Looking about wildly. 5. Refuting an argument. 6. Celestial latitude.
वि (vi)क्षेप (vikṣepa) [Printed book page 760] वि (vi)क्षेप (vikṣepa) m. (-पः (-paḥ))
1 Casting, throwing, or throwing away.
2 Sending, dispatching.
3 Confusion, perplexity, fear proceeding from ignorance or error.
4 Looking about vaguely or wildly, as of a woman for her absent lover.
5 Refuting an argument, establishing its falsehood.
6 Celestial latitude.
E. वि (vi) before क्षिप (kṣipa) to throw, aff. घञ् (ghañ).
विक्षेप (vikṣepa) [Printed book page 682-a] वि-क्षेप (vi-kṣepa)(पः) ((paḥ)) 1. m. Casting, throwing; bewilderment; refutation; celestial latitude. [ID=34376]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Casting or throwing.
2. Sending or dispatching.
3. Shaking or tossing to and fro.
4. Fear or confusion.
5. Refutation of an argument.
6. Polar latitude.
विक्षेप (vikṣepa) [Printed book page 659-18] विक्षेप (vikṣepa)m. 1. Casting, throwing, projecting, R. v.45; 2. sending, dispatching; 3. shaking, moving, tossing to and fro, K.S. i.13; 4. fear, alarm, confusion; 5. refutation of an argument; 6. polar latitude. [ID=34708]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Throwing away.
2. Dispatching.
3. Confusion or perplexity.
4. Looking about wildly.
5. Refuting an argument.
6. Celestial latitude.
वि (vi)क्षेप (vikṣepa) [Printed book page 651-b] वि (vi)क्षेप (vikṣepa)
m. (-पः (-paḥ))
1. Casting, or throwing away.
2. Sending, dispatching. 3. Confusion, perplexity, fear proceeding from ignorance or error.
4. Looking about vaguely or wildly, as of a woman for her absent lover.
5. Refuting an argument, establishing its falsehood. 6. Celestial latitude.
E. वि (vi) before, क्षिप् (kṣip) to throw, aff. घञ् । (ghañ .)
[ID=36375]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Casting or throwing away. 2. Dispatching. 3. Refuting an argument. 4. Confusion, perplexity, or fear. 5. Looking about wildly. 6. Celestial latitude.
1. Throwing apart, casting, or projection.
2. Sending or dispatching.
3. Scattering.
4. Confusion, perplexity, alarm, or fear.
5. Looking about wildly.
6. Refuting an argument.
7. Celestial or polar latitude.
विक्षेप (vikṣepa) [Printed book page 0911-c] Vi-kṣepa, as, m. the act of throwing apart or asunder, (caraṇa-v°, throwing asunder of the feet, striding with the legs apart); throwing away, cast- ing, throwing, projection (see vikṣepa-śakti); sending, dispatching; scattering; confusion, per- plexity, alarm, fear; looking about vaguely or wildly; refuting an argument; celestial or polar latitude. —Vikṣepa-dhruva, as, m. (in astronomy) the greatest inclination of a planet's orbit. —Vikṣepa-śakti, is, f. the power of Māyā, the projective power of ignorance (according to the Vedānta phil.) or that power of projection which raises up on the soul en- veloped by it the appearance of an external world. [ID=42309]
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Definitions on this page come from 9 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, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
