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अन्नमयकोश (annamayakoza)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अन्नमयकोश annamayakoza
m.
 gross material body
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अन्न—मय-कोश
m.
 the gross material body (which is sustained by food
=
 स्थूल-शरीर).
Goldstucker
English
अन्नमयकोश Karmadh. m. (-शः) The sheath made of अन्न 2. 2.,
of the essence of the elementary creation, i. e. the material
creation: the lowest form in which Brahman (n.) or the
Supreme Soul is considered as manifesting itself in its world-
ly and conscious existence.--In the Taittirīya-Upan. अन्न
of which the material creation is made, is the product of
herbs, these of earth and so on in retrogression, of the
elements water, fire and æther, the latter being the first
product of the Supreme Soul
it would appear therefore
that Brahman (n.) as अन्नमयकोश, in this Upanishad,
is the totality of the animal kingdom only, since the vegetable
kingdom precedes the creation of अन्न which is called also
सर्वौषध (see अन्न 2. 2.) and the beings (प्रजाः or भूतानि)
originating in अन्न, are represented as living through it
(‘अथोऽनेनैव जीवन्ति’)
but as अन्न on the other hand,
is the essence of the elements preceding it, this form of
Brahman would become in the Upanishad, constructively,
the same that it is in the Vedānta explicitly, viz. the to-
tality of the whole material creation. Yet while the Upa-
nishad uses the terms æther, air, fire, water and earth to
denote the elements in a general sense, the Vedānta dis-
tinguishes between ideal (सूक्ष्म) and real (स्थूल) elements
and makes the अन्नमयकोश proceed from the latter which
are an artificial mutual combination of portions of the former
(see भूत, सूक्ष्मभूत and स्थूलभूत)
and while the Upanishad
contents itself with the general idea of totality, as expressed
above, the Vedānta distinguishes between the conception
that may be formed of the Supreme Soul as unity in this
totality of the material creation (comp. समष्टि) and the con-
ception that may be formed of it as multiplicity in it (comp.
व्यष्टि)
as unity it is called वैश्वानर or विराज्, as multi-
plicity विश्व, in either case it is जाग्रत्.--The forms superior
to the अन्नमयकोश are in successive gradation प्राणमयकोश,
मनोमयकोश, विज्ञानमयकोश and आनन्दमयकोश qq. vv.
(the word कोश being supplied, in the Upanishad, by the
comm. to अन्नमय &c.). Compare also सूक्ष्मशरीर and स्थू-
लशरीर. E. अन्नमय and कोश. Also written अन्नमयकोष.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
अन्नमयकोशः
पुं*
 अन्नमय-कोशः -
"भौतिक शरीर, स्थूलशरीर , जो अन्न पर ही आधारित है तथा जो कि आत्मा का पाचवाँ वस्त्र या परिधान है , भौतिक संसार , स्थूलतम तथा निम्नतम रूप जिसके द्वारा ब्रह्म अपने आपको सांसारिक सत्ता के रूप् में प्रकट करने वाला माना जाता है"
L R Vaidya
English
anna-mayakoSa(za) {% m. %} the material creation, being the lowest form in which Brahman (n.) is considered as manifesting itself in its worldly existence.