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Candri, 䲹Իī, Իī, Camdri: 12 definitions

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Candri means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.

Alternative spellings of this word include Chandri.

In Hinduism

Shilpashastra (iconography)

: archive.org: Illustrations of Indian Music and Dance in Western Indian Style

Իī (चान्द्री) refers to a type of ū󲹲 (melodic mode), and its illustration as a Goddess (according to 15th-century Indian art) is as follows.—The colour of her body is dark-green. She holds a ṇz with both hands. She wears a bodice of golden colour, a scarf of yellow-saffron colour with a black design and a trouser of dark-rosy colour bearing a white-coloured design.

The illustrations (of, for example Իī) are found scattered throughout ancient Jain manuscripts from Gujarat. The descriptions of these illustrations of this ٰ屹ī are based on the śǰ첹 of Vācanācārya Gaṇi Sudhākalaśa’s Saṅgītopaniṣatsāroddhāra (14th century) and Śārṅgadeva’s Saṅgītaratnākara (13th century).

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Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.

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Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)

: academia.edu: Yakṣiṇ�-󲹲Բ in the Kakṣapuṭa tantra

Իī (चान्द्री) is the name of one of the thirty-six Yakṣiṇīs mentioned in the Uḍḍāmareśvaratantra. In the ⲹṣiṇ�-󲹲Բ, the Yakṣiṇ� is regarded as the guardian spirit who provides worldly benefits to the practitioner. The Yakṣiṇ� (e.g., Իī) provides, inter alia, daily food, clothing and money, tells the future, and bestows a long life, but she seldom becomes a partner in sexual practices.

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Shaiva (शै�, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

1) Իī (चान्द्री) is another name for Śٲ첹ṇṭī, a medicinal plant related to ṇṭī, according to verse 4.33-36 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (ś徱-) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (ṛt-ṣu貹). Together with the names Իī and Śٲ첹ṇṭī, there are a total of twenty-four Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

2) Իī (चान्द्री) is also mentioned as a synonym for ܳī, a medicinal plant identified with Psoralea corylifolia Linn. (“Babchi�) from the Fabaceae or “legume� family of flowering plants, according to verse 4.62-65. Together with the names Իī and ܳī, there are a total of twenty-one Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Yoga (school of philosophy)

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Candri in Yoga glossary
: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Իī (चान्द्री) refers to the “lunar fluid�, according to the Haṭhapradīpikā 3.96-98.—Accordingly, “Having discarded the first flow of water because of its excessive heat and the last flow because it is worthless, [the Yogin] should use the middle flow [which is] cool. In the Khaṇḍakāpālika sect, this is [called] Amarolī. If he regularly drinks the [middle flow called] Amarī; snorts [it] everyday and correctly practices Vajrolī Mudrā [in order to draw it up his urethra], it is called Amarolī. He should mix the lunar fluid (Իī) which is emitted because of [this] practice, with ashes and [then,] put it on the upper body (i.e., the head, eyes, shoulders, throat, chest, arms and so on). [As a result], divine sight arises�.

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

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In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

: De Gruyter: A Fragment of the ղ峾ṛtٲԳٰ

䲹Իī (चन्द्री) refers to one of the eight wisdoms () described in the �ܳⲹṇḍ-첹ṇāb󾱲Բⲹ� chapter of the 9th-century ղ峾ṛtٲԳٰ or ղ峾ṛtٲԳٰ: one of the main and earliest Buddhist Yoginītantras. The first chapter begins, in the fashion of the ‘explanatory tantras� (ٲԳٰ), by stating that the actual teachings have already been imparted; the Goddess (Devī) Māmakī then asks for insights on the means to achieve (󲹲Բ) the supreme Nectar of the Vajra (峾ṛt) [...] Afterwards, the text describes the door-guardians () and the eight Wisdoms () [viz., 䲹Իī, etc.] which are located in the eight leaves of the lotus.

: academia.edu: A Critical Study of the Vajraḍākamahātantrarāja (II)

䲹Իī (चन्द्री) refers to one the twenty-four Horā (astronomical) Goddess to be invoked during ū (ritual offering) in Tantric Buddhism, according to the 9th-century Vajraḍākatantra chapter 18.61-74. [...] A Yogin, putting a vessel in the left side of him, offers various things together with raw flesh, fish, immortal nectar (貹ñ峾ṛt). Then the Yogin invites Goddesses to please them with nectar—five Ḍākinīs and twenty-four Goddesses [viz., 䲹Իī] come to the Yogin’s place, forming a ṇḍ.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

candrī (चंद्री).—f (candra S) Fixedness and glaze of the eyeballs (in intoxication or in death; also in earnest attention or thought, in absorption of mind after, for, about. v . Ex. dṛṣṭīṃ dēkhiyēlā gajānē� tō vairī || tēṇēṃ nētrī� candrī 岵līsē ||. 2 A brass ṭ� or saucer. candrī bhulaṇēṃ or guṅga hōṇēṃ g. of s. To be out of one's wits (from joy, fright, wonder).

: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

candrī (चंद्री).�f Fixedness and glaze of the eye- balls (in intoxication or in death; also in earnest attention or thought.)

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

1) 䲹Իī (चन्द्री):—[from candra > cand] f. Serratula anthelminthica, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (cf. ardha-.)

2) Իī (चान्द्री):—[from Ի] f. moonlight, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] a kind of Solanum, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] Serratula anthelminthica, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

5) [v.s. ...] Name of a princess, [Rājataraṅgiṇ� vii, 1503.]

6) Ի (चान्द्रि):—[from Ի] m. = candra-ja, [Varāha-mihira’s Yogayātrā iv, 19.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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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Kannada-English dictionary

: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Caṃdri (ಚಂದ್ರಿ):—[adjective] shining; bright.

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Cāṃdri (ಚಾಂದ್ರ�):�

1) [noun] (myth.) Budha, the personification of the planet Mercury.

2) [noun] moonlight.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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