| YouTube Channel

निर्व्वाण (nirvvANa)

 
Yates
English
नि-र्व्वाण (णं) 1.
n.
External happiness
or absorption
extinction.
a. Li-
berated
extinct
dead
set (as
a planet)
without arrows.
Wilson
English
निर्व्वाण
mfn.
(-णः-णा-णं)
1 Liberated from existence.
2 Dead, deceased.
3 Gone out, extinguished, (as a fire.)
4 Set, as a planet.
5 Immersed, plunged.
6 Having no arrows.
n.
(-णं)
1 Eternal happiness, emancipation from matter, and re-union with the deity: it
is especially employed in this sense by the Bauddhas and Jains,
understanding by it perfect and perpetual calm.
2 Setting, disappearing, departure.
3 Refraining, desisting, leaving off, cessation.
4 Union, association,
blending, confluence.
5 Bathing or plunging of an elephant.
6 Repose.
7 Vacuity, vacuum or space.
8 Instructing in science.
E.
निर् before वाण to blow, &c. affix क्त,
deriv.
irr
. or निर्
neg. वाण an arrow.