Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

atiśaya अतिशय – excess; superiority

adjective · substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

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AYI dictionary substantive masculine

excess; superiority

Cappeller 1891 adjective

Original text · English · adjective

atiśaya ·a. excessive, excellent, superior to (abl.); m. excessiveness, excellence, superiority. °-- & instr. adv. excessively, very much, more.

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · English · substantive masculine

Ati-śaya, as, m. pre-eminence, eminence; superi- ority in quality or quantity or numbers; advantageous result; one of the superhuman qualities attributed to Jaina Arhats; (as, ā, am), pre-eminent, superior, abundant.

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

atiśaya atiśaya, &c. See under ati-śī below.

Petersburger 1855 adjective · substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine

atiśaya (von śī mit ati) 1〉 m. Vorrang, Vorzug, Vorzüglichkeit, Uebermaass, hoher Grad AK. 1,1,1,61. AK. 1,3,3,1. H. 1506. catvāra ete 'tiśayāḥ (Vorzüge) sahotthāḥ H. 58. dvayorekasyātiśayaḥ der Vorsprung, Vorrang des Einen unter Zweien VOP. 7,48. ayameṣāmatiśayena paṭuḥ = paṭutamaḥ P. 5,3,55, Sch. VOP. 7,48. ūrjo'tiśayānvitaḥ (so ist mit COLEBR. zu lesen) mit einem Uebermaass von Kraft versehen AK. 2,8,2,43. vīryaṃ so (adhyavasāyaḥ) 'tiśayānvitaḥ H. 300. vīryātiśaya RAGH. 3,62. vṛndārakātiśaye AK. 3,2,62. sātiśaya vorzüglich, ausgezeichnet M. 9,114. niratiśaya adj. ohne Vorrang, über Alles hinaus, ŚAṂK._in_WIND. Sancara 112. niratiśayaṃ garimāṇaṃ jananyāḥ PAÑCAT. I, 36. Am Anf. eines comp. häufig = atiśayena in hohem Grade, sehr, heftig: atiśayadāridropahata PAÑCAT. 239,14. muktāguṇātiśayasaṃbhṛtamaṇḍanaśrīḥ VIKR. 157. atiśayāliṅganatvam Sch. zu AMAR. 36. — 2〉 adj. f. ā hervorragend, vorzüglicher, mit dem abl.: prajāpateratisṛṣṭirātmano 'pyatiśayā ŚAṂK._zu_BṚH. ĀR. UP. 1,4,6 (p. 150. bei ROER).

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

atiśaya 1〉 taratamayoścātiśaye VS. PRĀT. 5,2. ādarātiśaya ŚIŚ. 9,77. anyo'nyātiśayastasminsnehaścāsāmavardhata eine Liebe, bei der Eine die Andere übertraf, KATHĀS. 3,15. yathā viṣṇvādidṛṣṭyā śilāyāmatiśayaḥ wie ein Stein eine höhere Bedeutung gewinnt, wenn man darin Viṣṇu oder einen andern Gott sieht, TBR. Comm. II, 389,2 v. u. — eine best. rhetorische Figur Verz. d. Oxf. H. 208,b,24. In der Philos. das potentia in-Etwas-Enthaltensein: kṣīra eva dadhna kaścidatiśayo na mṛttikāyām. mattikāyāmeva ca ghaṭasya kaścidatiśayo na kṣīre nur in der Milch ist dadhi potentia enthalten, nicht im Lehm; und nur im Lehm ist ein Topf potentia enthalten, nicht in der Milch, ŚAṂK._zu_BRAHMAS. 2,1,18. Davon adj. atiśayavant und hiervon nom. abstr. atiśayavattva n. ebend. — 2〉 tathā sa stotriyeṇa samo vātiśayo vā saṃpadyate ŚĀṄKH. BR. 23,2.

Böhtlingk 1879 adjective · substantive masculine

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine

atiśaya — 1〉 Adj. (f. ā) hervorragend, besser, vorzüglicher als (Abl.). — 2〉 m. — a〉 Ueberschuss, Ueberfluss, ein Mehr von Etwas Chr. 249,24. vīryāti˚ Chr. 99,18. Chr. 210,6. Chr. 211,28. Chr. 323,19. kasyāpi ko 'pyatiśayo 'sti so v. a. Einer hat immer Etwas vor einem Andern voraus Spr. 7805. atiśayena und atiśaya˚ in höherem —, in hohem Grade, überaus Chr. 177,21. Chr. 187,19. Chr. 304,28. — b〉 Macht über (Gen.) so v. a. die Macht Etwas aus sich zu erzeugen Comm. zu BRAHMAS. 2,1,18.

Original text · German · substantive masculine

atiśaya m. auch = viśeṣa Art. śāstrāti˚ JĀTAKAM. 4. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Apte 1890 substantive masculine

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atiśayaḥ [śī-ac] 1 Excess, preeminence excellence; vīrya˚ R. 3. 62; mahimnāṃ… atiśayaḥ U. 4. 21; tasmin vidhānātiśaye vidhātuḥ R. 6. 11 excellence, highest perfection of art. 2 Superiority (in quality, rank, quantity &c.); mahārghastīrthānāmiva hi mahatāṃ kopyatiśayaḥ U. 6. 11; oft in comp. with adjectives, in the sense of ‘exceedingly’, ‘excessively’; ˚ramaṇīyaḥ Mu. 3; āsīdatiśayaprekṣyaḥ R. 17. 25; muktāguṇātiśayasaṃbhṛtamaṃḍanaśrīḥ V. 5. 19; or with nouns, meaning ‘excellent’, ‘excessive’, ‘very great’; ˚rayaḥ, aśvātiśayaṃ K. 80 the best of horses; ˚dāridryopahatāḥ. 3 Advantageous result, one of the superhuman qualities attributed to Jaina saints. — a. [atiśayaḥ astyarthe ac] Superior, pre-eminent, excessive, very great, abundant. Comp. — uktiḥ f. 1 exaggerated or hyperbolical language, extreme assertion. 2 a figure of speech, (corr. to hyperbole) said to be of 5 kinds in S. D., but of 4 in K. P.; nigīryādhyavasānaṃ tu prakṛtasya pareṇa yat . prastutasya yadanyatvaṃ yadyarthoktau ca kalpanam . kāryakāraṇayoryaśca paurvāparyaviparyayaḥ . vijñeyātiśayoktiḥ sā; Ex. of the first kind: kamalamanaṃbhāsi kamale ca kuvalaye tāni kanakalatikāyāṃ . sā ca sukumārasubhagetyutpātaparaṃparā keyam .. 3 verbosity.

Cappeller 1887 Word type unspecified

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

atiśaya hervorragend, besser als (Abl.); m. Überschuss, Übermass; ˚— u. Instr. mehr, höchst, überaus.

Burnouf 1866 adjective

Original text · French · adjective

atiśaya atiśaya a. (śī) excessif. Ac. advt. atiśayam, excessivement. atiśāyana a. abondant, excessif. — atiśāyanam, excessivement, immodérément. — S. n. abondance extrême, profusion.

Derived words

  • niratiśaya निरतिशय adjective unsurpassed

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PYS 1 occurrence
PYS 1.23–26: Īśvara 1 occurrence

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