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पंचन् (paMcan)

 
Apte 1890
English
पंचन् num. a. (Always pl.
nom. and acc. पंच) Five. (As the first member of comp. पंचन् drops its final न्). [cf. Gr. pente]
Comp.
अंशः the fifth part, a fifth.
अग्निः {1} an aggregate of five sacred fires
i. e. (अन्वाहार्यपचन or दक्षिण, गार्हपत्य, आहवनीय, सभ्य, and आवसथ्य) {2} a householder who maintains the five sacred fires
पंचाग्नयो धृतव्रताः Māl. 1
Ms. 3. 185. {3} five mystic fires supposed to exist in the body. {4} one who is acquainted with the doctrine of these fires.
अंग a. five-membered, having five parts or divisions as in पंचांगः प्रणामः (i. e. बाहुभ्यां चैव जानुभ्यां शिरसा वक्षसा दृशा)
कृतपंचांगविनिर्णयो नयः Ki. 2. 12 (see Malli. and Kāmandaka quoted by him)
पंचागमभिनयमुपदिश्य M. 1
चित्ताक्षिभ्र्हस्तपादैरंगैश्चेष्टादिसाम्यतः । पात्राद्यवस्थाकरणं पंचागो ऽभिनयो मतः ॥. (
गः) {1} a tortoise or turtle. {2} a kind of horse with five spots in different parts of his body. (
गी) a bit for horses. (
गं) {1} collection or aggregate of five parts. {2} five modes of devotion. {3} the five parts of a tree
त्वक्पत्रकुसुमं मूलफलमेकस्य शाखिनः । एकत्र मिलितं चैतत् पंचांगमिति संज्ञितम् ॥. {4} a calender or almanac, so called because it treats of five things: (
तिथिर्वारश्च नक्षत्रं योगः करणमेव च)
चतुरंगबलो राजा जगतीं वशमानयेत् । अहं पंचांगबलवानाकाशं वशमानये ॥ Subhāṣ. °गुप्तः a turtle. °पत्रं a calender. °शुद्धिः f. the propitiousness or favourable state of five important points
i. e. तिथि, वार, नक्षत्र, योग, and करण (in astrology).
अंगिक a. five-membered.
अंगुल a. (ला or ली f.) measuring five fingers. (
लः) the castor-oil plant.
अ (आ) जं the five products of the goat.
अप्सरस् n. N. of a lake, said to have been created by the sage Māṇḍakarṇi
cf. R. 13. 38.
अमृत a. consisting of {5} ingredients. (
तं) {1} the aggregate of any five drugs. {2} the collection of five sweet things used in worshipping deities
(दुग्धं च शर्करा चैव घृतं दधि तथा मधु).
अर्चिस् m. the planet Mercury.
अवयव a. five-membered (as a syllogism, the five members being, प्रतिज्ञा, हेतु, उदाहरण, उपनय and निगमन q. q. v. v.).
अवस्थः a corpse
(so called because it is resolved into the five elements)
cf. पंचत्व below.
अविकं the five products of the sheep.
अशीतिः f. eighty-five.
अहः a period of five days.
आतप a. doing penance with five fires (i. e. with four fires and the sun)
cf. R. 13. 41.
आत्मक a. consisting of five elements (as body).
आननः,
आस्यः,
मुखः,
वक्त्रः {1} epithets of Śiva. {2} a lion (so called because its mouth is generally wide open
पंचं आननं यस्य), (often used at the end of names of learned men to express great learning or respect
न्याय°, तर्क° &c., e. g. जगन्नाथतर्कपंचानन). {3} the sign Leo of the zodiac. (
नी) an epithet of Durgā.
आम्नायाः (m. pl.) five Śāstras supposed to have proceeded from the five mouths of Śiva.
इंद्रियं an aggregate of the five organs (of sense or actions
see इंद्रियं).
इषुः,
बाणः,
शरः epithets of the god of love
(so called because he has five arrows: their names are:
अरविंदमशोकं च चूतं च नवमल्लिका । नीलोत्पलं च पचैते पंचबाणस्य सायकाः
the five arrows are also thus named:
संमोहनोन्मादनौ च शोषणस्तापनस्तथा । स्तंभनश्चेति कामस्य पंचबाणाः प्रकीर्तिताः ॥).
उष्मन् m. pl. the five digestive fires supposed to be in the body.
कपाल a. prepared or offered in five cups.
कर्ण a. branded in the ear with the number ‘five’ (as cattle &c.)
cf. P. VI. 3. 115.
कर्मन् n. (in medicine) the five kinds of treatment
i. e. {1} वमन ‘giving emetics’
{2} रेचन ‘purging’
{3} नस्य ‘giving strenutatories’
{4} अनुवासन ‘administering an enema which is oily’, and {5} निरूह ‘administering an enema which is not oily’.
कृत्वस् ind. five times.
कोणः a pentagon.
कोलं the five spices taken collectively.
कोषाः (m. pl.) the five vestures or wrappers supposed to invest the soul
they are:
अन्नमयकोष or the earthly body (स्थूलशरीर)
प्राणमयकोष the vesture of the vital airs
मनोमयकोष the sensorial vesture
विज्ञानमयकोष the cognitional vesture (these three form the लिंगशरीर)
and आनंदमयकोष the last vesture, that of beatitude.
क्रोशी {1} a distance of five Krośas. {2} N. of the city Benāres.
खट्वं,
खट्वी a collection of five beds.
गत a. (in alg.) raised to the fifth power.
गवं a collection of five cows.
गव्यं the five products of the cow taken collectively
i. e. milk, curds, clarified butter or ghee, urine, and cowdung (क्षीरं दधि तथा चाज्यं मूत्रं गोमयमेव च).
गु a. bought with five cows.
गुण a. five-fold. (
णाः) the five objects of sense (रूप, रस, गंध, स्पर्श and शब्द). (
णी) the earth.
गुप्तः {1} a tortoise. {2} the materialistic system of philosophy, the doctrines of the Cārvākas.
चत्वारिंश a. forty-fifth.
चत्वारिंशत् f. forty-five.
जनः {1} a man, mankind. {2} N. of a demon who had assumed the form of a conch-shell, and was slain by Kṛṣṇa. {3} the soul. {4} the five classes of beings
i. e. gods, men, Gandharvas, serpents and pitṛs. {5} the four primary castes of the Hindus (ब्राह्मण, क्षत्रिय, वैश्य and शूद्र) with the Niṣādas or barbarians as the fifth (pl. in these two senses)
(for a full exposition see Śārīrabhāṣya on Br. Br. Sūt. I. 4. 11-13). (
नी) an assemblage of five persons.
जनीन a. devoted to the five races. (
नः) an actor, a mimic, buffoon.
ज्ञानः {1} an epithet of Buddha as possessing the five kinds of knowledge. {2} a man familiar with the doctrines of the Pāśupatas.
तक्षं,
क्षी a collection of five carpenters.
तत्त्वं {1} the five elements taken collectively
i. e. पृथ्वी, अप्, तेजस्, वायु and आकाश. {2} (in the Tantras) the five essentials of the Tāntrikas, also called पंचमकार because they all begin with म
i. e. मद्य, मांस, मत्स्य, मुद्रा, and मैथुन.
तत्रं N. of a wellknown collection in five books containing moral stories and fables
तन्मात्रं the five subtle and primary elements (such as शब्द, रस, स्पर्श, रूप and गंध).
तपस् m. an ascetic who in summer practises penance sitting in the middle of four fires with the sun burning right over his head
cf. हविर्भुजामेधवतां चतुर्णां मध्ये ललाटंतपसप्तसप्तिः R. 13. 41 and Ku. 5. 23
and Ms. 6. 23 and Śi. 2. 51 also.
तय a. five-fold. (
यः) a pentad.
तिक्तं the five bitter things:
निंबामृतावृषपटोलनिदिग्धिकाश्च.
त्रिंश a. thirty-fifth.
त्रिंशत्,
त्रिंशतिः f. thirty-five.
दश a. {1} fifteenth. {2} increased by fifteen
as in पंचदशं शतं ‘one hundred and fifteen’.
दशन् a. pl. fifteen. °अहः a period of fifteen days.
दशिन् a. made or consisting of fifteen.
दशी the fifteenth day of a lunar fortnight.
दीर्घं the five long parts of the body
बाहू नेत्रद्वयं कुक्षिर्द्वे तु नासे तथैब च । स्ततयोरंतरं चैव पंचदीर्धं प्रचक्षते ॥.
देवताः the five deities:
आदित्यं गणनाथं च देवीं रुद्रं च केशवम् । पंचदैवतमित्युक्तं सर्वकर्मसु पूजयेत् ॥.
नखः {1} any animal with five claws
पंचः चनखा भक्ष्या ये प्रोक्ताः कृतजैर्द्विजैः Bk. 6. 131
Ms. 5. 17, 18
Y. 1. 177. {2} an elephant. {3} a turtle. {4} a lion or tiger.
नदः ‘the country of five rivers, ’ the modern Panjab (the five rivers being शतद्रु, विपाशा, इरावती, चंद्रभागा and वितस्ता, or the modern names Sutlej, Beas, Ravee, Chenab and Jhelum). (
दाः pl.) the people of this country.
नवतिः f. ninety-five.
नीराजनं waving five things before an idol and then falling prostrate before it
(the five things being:
a lamp, lotus, cloth, mango and betel-leaf).
पंचाश a. fifty-fifth.
पंचाशत् f. fifty-five.
पदी {1} five steps
Pt. 2. 115. {2} the five strong cases, i. e. the first five inflections.
पर्वन् n. pl. the five parvans q. v.
they are चतुर्दश्यष्टमी चैव अमावास्या च पूर्णिमा । पर्वाण्येतानि राजेंद्रं रविसंक्ांतिरेव च ॥.
पाद् a. consisting of five feet, steps, or parts. (
m.) a year (संवत्सर).
पात्रं {1} five vessels taken collectively. {2} a Śrāddha in which offerings are made in five vessels.
पितृ m. pl. the five fathers:
जनकश्चोपनेता च यश्च कन्यां प्रयच्छति । अन्नदाता भयत्राता पंचैते पितरः स्मृताः ॥.
प्राणाः (m. pl.) the five life-winds or vita airs
प्राण, अपान, व्यान, उदान and समान.
प्रसादः a temple of a particular size with four pinnacles and a steeple.
बंधः a fine equal to the fifth part of anything lost or stolen.
बाणः,
वाणः,
शरः epithets of the god of love
see पंचेषु.
बांहुः N. of Śiva.
भद्र a. {1} having five good qualities. {2} consisting of five good ingredients (as a sauce &c.). {3} having five auspicious marks (asa horse) on the chest, back, face and flanks. {4} vicious.
भुज a. pentagonal. (
जः) a pentagon
cf. पंचकोण.
भूतं the five elements
पृथ्वी, अप्, तेजस्, वायु and आकाश.
मकारं the five essentials of the left-hand Tantra ritual of which the first letter is म
see पंचतत्त्व (2).
महापातकं the five great sins
see महापातक.
महायज्ञाः (m. pl.) the five daily sacrifices enjoined to be performed by a Brāhmaṇa
see महायज्ञ.
माष (षि) क a. consisting of five Māṣas (as a fine &c.).
मास्य a. happening every five months.
मुखः an arrow with five points
(for other senses see पंचानन.)
मुद्रा five gestures to be made in presenting offerings to an idol.
यामः a day (?).
रत्नं a collection of five gems
they are variously enumerated:
(1) नीलकं वज्रकं चेति पद्मरागश्च मौक्तिकं । प्रवालं चेति विज्ञेयं पंचरत्नं मनीषिभिः ॥ (2) सुवर्णं रजतं मुंक्ता राजावर्तं प्रवालकं । रत्नपंचकमाख्यातम् ॥ (3) कनकं हीरकं नीलं पद्मरागश्च मौक्तिकम् । पंचरत्नमिदं प्रोक्तमृषिभिः पूर्वदर्शिभिः ॥. {2} the five most admired episodes of the Mahābhārata.
रसा the आमलकी tree (Mar. आंवळी).
रात्रं a period of five nights.
राशिकं the rule of five (in math.).
लक्षणं a Purāṇa
so ealled because it deals with five important topics:
सर्गश्च प्रतिसर्गश्च वंशो मन्वंतराणि च । वंशानुचरितं चैव पुराणं पंचलक्षणं ॥ see पुराण also.
लवणं five kinds of salt
i. e. काचक, सैंधव, सामुद्र, बिड and सौवर्चल.
लांगलकं a gift (महादान) of as much land as can be cultivated with five ploughs.
लोहं a metallic alloy containing five metals (i. e. copper, brass, tin, lead, and iron).
लोहकं the five metals
i. e. gold, silver, copper, tin, and lead.
वटः the sacred or sacrificial thread worn across the breast (यज्ञोपवीत).
वटी {1} the five fig-trees
i. e. अश्वत्थ, बिल्व, वट, धात्री, and अशोक. {2} N. of a part of the Daṇḍakā forest where the Godāvarī rises and where Rāma dwelt for a considerable time with his beloved
it is two miles from Nasik
U. 2. 28
R. 13. 34.
वर्गः {1} an aggregate of five. {2} the five essential elements of the body. {3} the five organs of sense. {4} the five daily sacrifices enjoined to be performed by a Brāhmaṇa
cf. महायज्ञ.
वर्षदेशीय a. about five years old.
वर्षीय a. five years old.
वल्कलं a collection of the barks of five kinds of trees
namely न्यग्रोध, उदुंबर, अश्वत्थ, प्लक्ष and वेतस.
वार्षिक a. recurring every five years.
वाहि न् a. drawn by five (as a carriage).
विंश a. twenty-fifth.
विंशतिः f. twenty-five.
विंशतिका a collection of twenty-five
as in वेतालपंचविंशतिका.
विध a. five-fold, of five kinds. °प्रकृतिः f. the five departments of a government
Ms. 7. 157.
वृत्,
वृतं ind. five-fold.
शत a. amounting to five hundred. (
तं) {1} one hundred and five. {2} five hundred.
शाखः {1} the hand. {2} an elephant.
शिखः a lion.
ष a. pl. five or six
संत्यन्येऽपि बृहस्पतिप्रभृतयः संभाविताः पंचषाः Bh. 2. 34.
षष्ट a. sixty-fifth.
षष्टिः f. sixty-five.
सप्तत a. seventyfifth.
सप्ततिः f. seventy-five.
सुगंधकं the five kinds of aromatic vegetable substances
they are:
कर्पूरकक्कोललवंगपुष्पगुवाकजातीफलपंचकेन । समांशभागेन च योजितेन मनोहरं पंचसुगंधकं स्यात् ॥.
सूनाः f. the five things in a house by which animal life may be accidentally destroyed
they are:
पंचसूना गृहस्थस्य चुल्लीपेषण्युपस्करः कंडनी चोदकुंभश्च Ms. 3. 68.
हायन a. five years old.
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English
paMcan {% num. (always pl.
nom. and acc. पंच) %} Five.(As the first member of compounds पंचन् drops it final न्.)