— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
व्याप्तिvyāpti
व्याप्ति (vyāpti) is a Sanskrit word meaning acquisition, attainment, accomplishment, the inseparable presence of one thing in another, universal pervasion or distribution, invariable concomitance, universality or a universal rule without an exception, omnipresence or ubiquity as a divine attribute. Its 11 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Pervasion, Inherence, and Concomitance, Acquisition or Attainment, Omnipresence or Ubiquity.
- Etymology
- E. वि and आप to pervade, aff. क्तिन्
- Definitions
- 11
Meanings by context
Pervasion, Inherence, and Concomitance
8 definitions
व्याप्ति (vyāpti) f. (-प्तिः (-ptiḥ))
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
व्या_प्ति (vyā_pti) (प्तिः) ((ptiḥ)) 2. f. See व्यापकता (vyāpakatā). [ID=36886]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
व्याप्ति (vyāpti) f. 1. Pervasion; 2. a universal rule; 3. fulness; 4. invariable concomitance, universal accompaniment of the midddle term by the major (in Nyāya phil.). [ID=36702]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
व्याप्ति (vyāpti)
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
व्याप्ति (vyāpti) vyāpti, i. e. vi-āp + ti, f. 1.
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
व्याप्ति (vyāpti) f. obtaining, reaching, penetrating, filling, containing; universal pervasion, general rule. [ID=31409]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Vy-āpti, is, f. the act or state of pervading, per- vasion, pervadedness, permeation, pervading inhe- rence, the inherent and inseparable presence of any one thing in another (as of oil in sesamum seed, heat in fire, &c.), universal pervasion, inseparable in- volvedness, invariable concomitance, invariable attend- ance on an ascertained sign, universal distribution (in logic), universal accompaniment of the middle term by the major (e. g. smoke is always pervaded by fire or fire is necessarily involved in smoke; it is this idea of pervasion that constitutes the peculiarity of the Hindū syllogism); universality, universal or general rule or law without an exception; omni- presence, ubiquity (as a divine attribute); fulness; obtaining, gaining, acquiring. —Vyāpti-karman, ā, ā, a, Ved. whose function is diffusion. —Vyāpti- graha, as, m. apprehension of a general proposition or of universal concomitance, induction. —Vyāpti-jñāna, am, n. knowledge of pervading inherence or of the presence of invariably concomitant properties. —Vy- āpti-niścaya, as, m. (in logic) the ascertainment of pervading inherence or universal concomitance. —Vy- āpti-mat, ān, atī, at, possessing pervasion, univer- sally diffused, pervading; pervaded, attended by. —Vyāpti-lakṣaṇa, am, n. sign or proof of uni- versal pervasion or of the invariable attendance of an inherent property or characteristic. [ID=45648]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)
Acquisition or Attainment
1 definition
व्य्-आप्ति (vy-āpti) f. (ifc. °तिक (°tika)) acquisition, attainment, accomplishment, AV.; ŚBr. [ID=209782]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
Omnipresence or Ubiquity
1 definition
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
Universal Rule or Principle
1 definition
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
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Definitions on this page come from 8 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller 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.