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Ashnat, ´¡Å›²Ô²¹³Ù, ´¡Å›²Ô²¹²Ô: 2 definitions

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Ashnat means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit terms ´¡Å›²Ô²¹³Ù and ´¡Å›²Ô²¹²Ô can be transliterated into English as Asnat or Ashnat or Asnan or Ashnan, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Vedanta (school of philosophy)

: Wikisource: Ashtavakra Gita

´¡Å›²Ô²¹³Ù (अशà¥à¤¨à¤¤à¥) refers to “tastingâ€� (i.e., living happily by just tasting, etc.—without being attracted to or feeling repulsed by wealth/sensuality, etc.), according to the AṣṭÄvakragÄ«tÄ (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-VedÄnta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[...] It is only the noble minded who is free from attraction or repulsion to religion, wealth, sensuality, and life and death too. [...] Thus fulfilled through this knowledge, contented and with the thinking mind emptied, he lives happily just seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting (²¹Å›²Ô²¹³Ù). [paÅ›yañchṛṇvanspṛśañjighrann²¹Å›²Ô²¹nnÄste yathÄsukham] [...]â€�.

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Vedanta (वेदानà¥à¤�, vedÄnta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

´¡Å›²Ô²¹³Ù (अशà¥à¤¨à¤¤à¥):—[from ²¹Å›²Ô²¹] mfn. eating, consuming, [Ṛg-veda vii, 67, 7 & viii, 5, 31, etc.] (cf. an-²¹Å›²Ô²¹³Ù.)

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Sanskrit, also spelled संसà¥à¤•ृतमà¥� (²õ²¹á¹ƒs°ìá¹›t²¹³¾), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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