Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

māraṇa मारण – the act of killing, slaying, slaughter, being killed, destruction

substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

Cappeller 1891 substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive neuter

mā́raṇa ·n. killing, slaughter, murder (w. prāp suffer death); N. of a cert. magical ceremony & a mythical weapon.

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive neuter

Māraṇa, am, n. the act of killing, slaying, slaughter, being killed, destruction; a magical cere- mony having for its object the destruction of an enemy; (scil. astra), ‘the slayer,’ epithet of certain mythical weapons; epithet of a particular process in reducing metals, calcination; a kind of poison [cf. maraṇa]; (ī), f. ‘the slayer,’ epithet of one of the nine Samidhs.

Petersburger 1855 substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive neuter

māraṇa (vom caus. von 1. mar) 1〉 n. a〉 das Tödten AK. 2,8,2,83. AK. 3,4,18,121. TRIK. 2,8,59. HALĀY. 2,322. tāvatkṛtvo ha māraṇam — prāpnoti so v. a. so oft tödtet man ihn M. 5,38. manuṣya˚ M. 8,296. HARIV. 691. KĀM. NĪTIS. 14,23. WEBER, RĀMAT. UP. 296. — b〉 eine die Vernichtung eines Feindes bezweckende Zaubercerimonie Verz. d. Oxf. H. 97,b,9. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 97,b,27. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 97,b,33. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 97,b,35. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 98,a,5. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 98,a,6. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 100,a,40. tāpajvarādi˚ Verz. d. Oxf. H. 98,a,2. na śastaṃ māraṇaṃ karma PAÑCAR. 3,14,71. ˚karman Verz. d. Oxf. H. 97,b,25. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 97,b,31. grahamāraṇakarman WEBER, RĀMAT. UP. 314. ˚kṛtya Verz. d. Oxf. H. 98,a,17. — c〉 (sc. astra) Bez. einer best. mythischen Waffe (die Tödtende) R. 1,29,19. — d〉 Bez. eines best. Processes bei der Darstellung von Metallen Verz. d. B. H. No. 965. fg. Verz. d. B. H. No. 969. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 311,b,17. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 320,b, No. 760. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 321,b, No. 763. — e〉 ein best. Gift; s. u. maraṇa 2. — 2〉 f. ī Bez. einer der 9 Samidh (die Tödtende) GṚHYASAṂGR. 1,27.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

māraṇa 1〉d〉 es ist das Calciniren gemeint.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

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māraṇa — 1〉 n. — a〉 das Tödten, Umkommenlassen ĀPAST. ˚ṇaṃ pra-āp den Tod erleiden. — b〉 eine die Vernichtung des Feindes bezweckende Zauberceremonie. — c〉 eine best. mythische Waffe. — d〉 das Calciniren BHĀVAPR. 2,83. — 2〉 f. ī Bez. einer der neun Samidh.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

mā́raṇa V. 1〉a〉 MAITR. S. 2,2,10 (23,9). [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Apte 1890 substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive neuter

māraṇaṃ [mṛ-ṇic lyuṭ] 1 Killing, slaying, slaughter, destruction; paśumāraṇakarmadāruṇaḥ Ś. 6. 1. 2 A magical ceremony performed for the purpose of destroying an enemy. 3 Calcination. 4 A kind of poison.

Cappeller 1887 substantive neuter

Original text · German · substantive neuter

māraṇa n. Tötung, Mord; N. einer muthischen Waffe.

Burnouf 1866 substantive neuter

Original text · French · substantive neuter

māraṇa n. action de faire mourir, de tuer, meurtre.

Occurrences in source texts (2)

SiSa 2 occurrences
SiSa 4.31-4.36: Mahāmudrā-Wirkung 2 occurrences

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