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śramaṇa श्रमण – ascetic

adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

AYI dictionary substantive masculine
Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

śramaṇá ·m. ā & ī f. ascetic, mendicant; n. toil, exertion.

Monier-Williams 1872 Word type unspecified

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

Śramaṇa, as, ā or ī, am, making effort or exertion, toiling, labouring; following a low or menial busi- ness; base, vile, bad; (as), m. one who performs acts of penance and austerity, an ascetic, devotee, one who restrains his passions and mortifies his body; a religious mendicant; a Buddhist ascetic; a beggar; (ā, ī), f. a woman of low caste or business; a female mendicant, (kumāra-śramaṇā, a female mendicant even in girlhood); a handsome woman; Bengal madder (= mañjiṣṭhā); another plant (= muṇ- ḍīrī); Indian spikenard (= jaṭā-māṃsī).

Petersburger 1855 adjective · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · adjective

śramaṇá (von 1. śram) mit kṛta u. s. w. componirt gaṇa śreṇyādi zu P. 2,1,59. 1〉 adj. der sich abmüht, — kasteit; m. Bettelmönch, insbes. ein buddhistischer, Buddhist überh. (Gautama selbst erhält dieses Beiwort) TRIK. 1,1,24. H. 75. H. an. 3,227. MED. ṇ. 80 (nach H. an. und MED. auch = nindyajīvin). HALĀY. 2,190. COLEBR. Misc. Ess. 2,196. COLEBR. Misc. Ess. 2,203. WILSON, Sel. Works 1,295. WILSON, Sel. Works 1,303. WILSON, Sel. Works 2,312. fgg. BURNOUF, Intr. 78. fg. BURNOUF, Intr. 275. fg. BURNOUF, Intr. 297. LIA. 2,238. LIA. 2,263. LIA. 2,449. ŚAT. BR. 14,7,1,22. TAITT. ĀR._in_Ind. St. 1,78. śramaṇāśca vanaukasaḥ MBH. 1,7778 R. 1,13,13 (R. 1,13,11 GORR.). gaṇa yuvādi zu P. 5,1,130. BHĀG. P. 5,3,20. BHĀG. P. 11,2,20. BHĀG. P. 12,3,19. KATHĀS. 27,18. fgg. KATHĀS. 38,56. KATHĀS. 51,118. fgg. KATHĀS. 53,39. KATHĀS. 65,132. fgg. KATHĀS. 75,37. fgg. KATHĀS. 75,39. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 87,9 (v. l. für śravaṇa). RĀJA-TAR. 1,199. RĀJA-TAR. 5,427. SĀH. D. 103,12. LALIT. ed. Calc. 2,20. LALIT. ed. Calc. 308,6. LALIT. ed. Calc. 308,14. LALIT. ed. Calc. 309,20. LALIT. ed. Calc. 318,18. LALIT. ed. Calc. 320,6. LALIT. ed. Calc. 320,7. LALIT. ed. Calc. 320,20. WASSILJEW 63. WASSILJEW 83. WASSILJEW 212. WASSILJEW 248. Vie de HIOUEN-THSANG 62. śramaṇā f. TRIK. 3,3,141. H. 532, Schol. HALĀY. 2,332. R. 1,1,55 (R. 1,1,59 GORR.). MAHĀVĪRAC. 80,12. fgg. kumārá˚ P. 2,1,70. P. 6,2,26. śramaṇī R. 2,38,5. ed. Bomb. 1,1,57. — 2〉 f. ā eine Bettelnonne; s. u. 1〉; = śabarībhid (vgl. R. 1,1,55), sudarśanā und māṃsī MED. = muṇḍīrī TRIK. 3,3,141. MED. — Vgl. a˚, paścācchramaṇa, pramatta˚, mahā˚, śrāmaṇera und 4. śravaṇa.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

śramaṇa 1〉 Buddhist: ˚brāhmaṇam leben in Feindschaft PAT. a. a. O. 2,398,a.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

śramaṇá — 1〉 m. Bettelmönch, insbes. ein buddhistischer oder Jaina-Mönch. (HEM. PAR. 1,302). Auch [Page6-268-c] Gautama selbst erhält dieses Beiwort. śramaṇasaṃgha m. Ind. Antiq. 6,32. śramaṇācārya m. HARṢAC. (ed. Bomb.) 506,18. — 2〉 f. ā und ī eine Bettelnonne. — 3〉 *f. ā = śabarībhid (vgl. R. 1,1,55), maṃsī, muṇḍīrī und sudarśanā. — 4〉 n. Mühe, Anstrengung ŚĀṄKH. ŚR. 15,19,21. śremāṇam st. śramaṇam AIT. BR. 7,15,6.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

śramaṇa VI. m. *N. pr. eines Schlangendämons MAHĀVY. 168. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Apte 1890 adjective · substantive masculine

Original text · English · adjective · substantive masculine

śramaṇa a. (ṇā -ṇī f.) [śram-yuc] 1 Labouring, toiling. 2 Low, base, vile. — ṇaḥ 1 An ascetic, a devotee, religious mendicant in general. 2 A Buddhist ascetic. 3 A beggar. — ṇā-ṇī 1 A female devotee or mendicant. 2 A lovely woman. 3 A woman of low caste. 4 Bengal madder. 5 The spikenard.

Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

śramaṇá m., ā u. ī f. Bettelmönch, -nonne; n. Mühr, Anstrengung.

Burnouf 1866 substantive masculine

Original text · French · substantive masculine

śramaṇa śramaṇa m. [f. ī] (śram; sfx. ana) ascète; religieux; religieuse, Bd. Le śramaṇa gautama [Samanacodom], le Buddha. — F. śramaṇā valeriana jaṭāmāṃsī; rubia manjith; bot. śramaṇāye (dén.) devenir pauvre comme un ascète.

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