vitarka वितर्क – deliberation; thought; reflection; gross deliberation
substantive masculine · Word type unspecified
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AYI dictionary substantive masculine
deliberation; thought; reflection; gross deliberation
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Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine
Original text · English · substantive masculine
vitarka ·m. conjecture, supposition, deliberation, doubt.
Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine
Original text · English · substantive masculine
Vi-tarka, as, m. reasoning, argument, inference, conjecture, guess, supposition, opinion, anticipation, discussion; deliberation, consideration of probabilities or alternatives, doubt, apprehension; a teacher, an instructor in divine knowledge.
Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine
Original text · German · substantive masculine
vitarka (von tark mit vi) m. 1〉 Vermuthung: yau tau kumārāviva kārttikeyau dvāvaśvineyāviti me vitarkaḥ MBH. 1,7083. KUMĀRAS. 1,41. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 74,5. MĀLATĪM. 20,3. māṃ vitarkairbahubhirvṛtam R. 4,61,21. bahuvitarkamabhyantaraṃ praviśya KATHĀS. 28,190. bahūnkurvanvitarkān KATHĀS. 52,219. ityanekavitarkaughavyākulaḥ KATHĀS. 87,12. vitarkapadavīṃ naivaṃ samārohati PRAB. 116,9. RĀJA-TAR. 6,83. indorvitarkāt weil er den Mond darin vermuthete Spr. 2013. — 2〉 ein auftauchender Zweifel YOGAS. 1,17. SARVADARŚANAS. 164,22. BHĀG. P. 6,9,35. saṃgamavirahavitarke (st. dessen ˚vikalpe Spr. 3101) VET. in LA. (III) 21,1. = saṃśaya H. an. 3,98. MED. k. 157. HALĀY. 4,6. huṃ vitarke HALĀY. 5,90. AK. 3,4,32 (28), 3. AK. 3,4,32 (28),14. eine fragliche Sache: vitarkā hiṃsādayaḥ YOGAS. 2,34. YOGAS. 2,33. — 3〉 das Hinundherüberlegen, Erwägung; = ūha H. 322. H. an. MED. saṃdehātkalpanānyatvaṃ vitarkaḥ parikīrtitaḥ PRATĀPAR. 54,b,5. SĀH. D. 169. SĀH. D. 74,16 (= tarka SĀH. D. 202). SĀH. D. 237. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 208,b,8. kasmai pradeyeti mahānvitarkaḥ Spr. 966. Spr. 1047 (II) 3321. vitarkaḥ samabhūtteṣāṃ triṣvadhīśeṣu ko mahān BHĀG. P. 10,89,1. WASSILJEW 251. WASSILJEW 256. — 4〉 N. pr. eines Sohnes des Dhṛtarāṣṭra MBH. 1,3747. — Vgl. durvitarka, nirvitarka, sa˚.
Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified
Original text · German · substantive masculine
vitarka m. — 1〉 Vermuthung. indorvitarkāt so v. a. weil darin der Mond vermuthet wurde. — 2〉 ein auftauchender Zweifel. — 3〉 eine fragliche Sache. — 4〉 das Hinundherüberlegen, Erwägung Chr. 178,20. — 5〉 N. pr. eines Sohnes des Dhṛtarāṣṭra.
Original text · German · Word type unspecified
vitarka VI. m. Vorhaben ebend. 6,18. Pl. Bez. der fünf Hauptsünden YOGAS. 2,33. fg. bestimmter Jogin YOGAS. 1,19. Comm. zu YOGAS. 1,17. [Nachtrag, Band 7]
Apte 1890 substantive masculine
Original text · English · substantive masculine
vitarkaḥ 1 Argument, reasoning, inference. 2 Guess, conjecture, supposition, belief; śirīṣapuṣpādhikasaukumāryau bāhū tadīyāviti me vitarkaḥ Ku. 1. 41. 3 Fancy, thought; Bh. 3. 45. 4 Doubt; Ki. 4. 5, Ki. 13. 2. 5 Deliberation, discussion. 6 A teacher in divine knowledge.
Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine
Original text · German · substantive masculine
vitarka m. Vermutung, Zweifel, Erwägung.
Burnouf 1866 substantive masculine
Original text · French · substantive masculine
vitarka vitarka m. (tark) conjecture, examen de la probabilité de qqc.; discussion, délibération; doute; soupçon. Précepteur. vitarkayāmi 10. Examiner qqc. quant à sa probabilité; réfléchir; douter. vitarkaṇa n. cf. vitarka.
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Occurrences in source texts (6)
PYS 5 occurrences
PYS 1.42–43: Gross Samāpatti 2 occurrences
Occurrences through derived words
SS 1 occurrence
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