Hela, Helā: 21 definitions

Introduction
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In Hinduism
In Jainism
1. General definition
India history
Biology
Languages
1. Marathi
2. Sanskrit
3. Prakrit
4. Nepali
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Introduction:

Hela means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, biology. 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.

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In Hinduism

Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: archive.org: Natya Shastra

Helā (हेला, “graceful expression”).—Everyone’s ordinary feeling (bhāva), which depend on the Erotic Sentiment (śṛṅgāra-rasa), and reveals itself through graceful movements (lalitābhinaya) is called the “graceful expression of feeling” (helā) by the wise.

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Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)

Helā (हेला) (also called Vilambitā when possessed of a Yamaka) is the name of a catuṣpadi metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhraṃśa bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Helā has 22 mātrās in each of its four lines, divided into the groups of 6, 4, 4, 4 and 4 mātrās, where the 2nd and the 5th caturmātras which must either be [ISI] or [IIII].

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Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.

Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)

Source: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantram

Helā (हेला) refers to “sport”, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, “[...] (The same energy operates) within the five called the Jewels that follows after the group of four called the Siddhas, and in the triad that removes all impurity (consisting of) the six of the sextet, the five of the pentad and the quaternary. (It operates within the six Yoginīs) beginning with Ḍā, within the six paths and the rest present in the passion of the sequence of the sport (helā-krama) that begins with the secret (genital centre) and in the sextet of the Wheel of the Yoginī Kamalamatī and the host of Dūtīs beginning with Svabhrā Nityā

Source: Shodhganga: Saudarya Lahari of Sri Sankara A Study

Helā (हेला) refers to one of the 72 rays of the Viśuddhi-Cakra which (together with the 64 rays of the Ājñā) are associated with the lunar plane called Brahmagranthi, according to Śaṅkarācārya’s Saudaryalaharī.—Accordingly, the Goddess is visualised (by Sādhaka) as dwelling above the six Ādhāracakras ruling over the 360 rays which emanate in them [e.g., Helā]. These 360 rays represent 360 syllables (i.e., a consummation of the śabdaprapañca or 50 alphabets) as well as the principles of nature. For the 360 syllables, together with haṃ and saḥ, Nyāsa should be performed for Śrīcakrapūjā.

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Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.

Ayurveda (science of life)

Toxicology (Study and Treatment of poison)

Source: Shodhganga: Kasyapa Samhita—Text on Visha Chikitsa

Helā (हेला) is the name of a herbal ingredient which is included in a (snake) poison antidote recipe, according to the Kāśyapa Saṃhitā: an ancient Sanskrit text from the Pāñcarātra tradition dealing with both Tantra and Viṣacikitsā—an important topic from Āyurveda which deals with the study of Toxicology (Viṣavidyā or Sarpavidyā).—In the Añjana or Collyrium segment of the eighth Adhyāya, Kāśyapa prescribes eight types of permutation and combination of herbs that effectively arrest poison. According to Kāśyapasaṃhitā (verse VIII.39b-40), “Arjuna, Kuṣṭha, Nata, Vyoma, Tulasī, Śāribā, Dhana, Helā, Hiṅgu,Vacā,Yaṣṭhi,Vilaṅga, Sindhu, honey boiled in the latex of Palāśa and salt water and stored in the horn of a cow, applied as collyrium treats poison effectively”.

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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.

In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: archive.org: Een Kritische Studie Van Svayambhūdeva’s Paümacariu

Hela (हेल) participated in the war between Rāma and Rāvaṇa, on the side of the latter, as mentioned in Svayambhūdeva’s Paumacariu (Padmacarita, Paumacariya or Rāmāyaṇapurāṇa) chapter 57ff. Svayambhū or Svayambhūdeva (8th or 9th century) was a Jain householder who probably lived in Karnataka. His work recounts the popular Rāma story as known from the older work Rāmāyaṇa (written by Vālmīki). Various chapters [mentioning Hela] are dedicated to the humongous battle whose armies (known as akṣauhiṇīs) consisted of millions of soldiers, horses and elephants, etc.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

India history and geography

Source: Shodhganga: Vernacular architecture of Assam with special reference to Brahmaputra Valley

Hela is a Tiwa term referring to “an official”.—It appears in the study dealing with the vernacular architecture (local building construction) of Assam whose rich tradition is backed by the numerous communities and traditional cultures.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Hela in Tanzania is the name of a plant defined with Dactyloctenium aegyptium in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Chloris mucronata Michx. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Giardino Colon. Palermo (1910)
· Nomenclator Botanicus. Editio secunda (1840)
· Mexicanas Plantas (1886)
· Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique … Botanique (1791)
· Petite Flore de l’Ouest-Africain (1954)
· Plantae Europeae (1870)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Hela, for example side effects, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, extract dosage, diet and recipes, health benefits, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

hēla (हेल).—m f The business of carrying burdens (from village to village or place to place), porterage (v vāha): also the burden carried: also the cost of carriage, the fare. 2 The supplying for a few days (with water, milk &c.) of a family in which a child is born. Usually performed by Shudra females, and viewed as a sort of tribute or as an acknowledgment of respect. Also the water, milk &c. so supplied or brought. Also the throwing of water before the door for a few days, as an act of the same significance. 3 m A cartload (of kaṛba, hay, straw, sticks, rafters &c.) hēla consists of materials or things which are bound, not of such as sand, lime, earth, ashes, stones &c. 4 A loud and prolonged utterance (in singing, wailing, calling &c.) v kāḍha & nigha f A term in the play of āṭyāpāṭyā.

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hēlā (हेला).—m (halya S) A male buffalo. See halyā. Pr. hēlyācyā kānīṃ kiṅgarī vājavilī tarīṃ tō āpalī drōṃya sōḍīta nāhīṃ A fool wont mend his ways through good example or advice.

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hēlā (हेला).—f S Sport, wanton play, dalliance. 3 Despising or contemning; rejecting superciliously or treating contumeliously: also contempt, disregard. slight.

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hēḷā (हेळा).—m A tree or its fruit. See bēhaḍā.

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hēḷā (हेळा).—ad (Poetry. hēlā S Contemning.) Easily.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

hēla (हेल).—m f Porterage; the cost of carriage. The burden carried. The business of carrying burdens. m A loud and prolonged utterance.

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hēlā (हेला).—m A male buffalo.

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Helā (हेला).—[heḍ-bhāve-ḍasya laḥ]

1) Contempt, disrespect, insult; तत्पूर्वमंसद्वयसं द्विपाधिपाः क्षणं सहेलाः परितो जगाहिरे (tatpūrvamaṃsadvayasaṃ dvipādhipāḥ kṣaṇaṃ sahelāḥ parito jagāhire) Śiśupālavadha 12.72.

2) (a) Amorous sport or dalliance, wanton sport; हेलात्यन्तं समालक्ष्य विकारः स्यात् स एव च (helātyantaṃ samālakṣya vikāraḥ syāt sa eva ca) S. D.128; भावो हावश्च हेला च त्रयस्तत्र शरीरजाः (bhāvo hāvaśca helā ca trayastatra śarīrajāḥ) D. R.2.32. (b) Pleasure, delight, pastime; मुग्धेन्दुसुन्दरतदीयमुखावलोकहेलाविशृङ्खलकुतू- हलनिह्नवाय (mugdhendusundaratadīyamukhāvalokahelāviśṛṅkhalakutū- halanihnavāya) Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 9.43.

3) Strong sexual desire; प्रौढे- च्छयाऽतिरूढानां नारीणां सुरतोत्सवे । शृङ्गारशास्त्रतत्त्वज्ञैर्हेला सा परि- कीर्तिता (prauḍhe- cchayā'tirūḍhānāṃ nārīṇāṃ suratotsave | śṛṅgāraśāstratattvajñairhelā sā pari- kīrtitā) ||

4) Ease, facility; निवेशयामासिथ हेलयोद्धृतम् (niveśayāmāsitha helayoddhṛtam) Śiśupālavadha 1. 34; हेलया (helayā) 'easily', without any difficulty or trouble.

5) Moonlight.

6) A pause in a note or shaking (as in music).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Helā (हेला).—(1) (perhaps compare [Jaina Māhārāṣṭrī] heḍā, defined by Hindi ghaṭā, samūha, [Paia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo]) some sort of container, basket or the like: sa hiraṇya-suvarṇasya helāṃ pūrayitvā Avadāna-śataka i.224.6; gṛhapatinā sā suvarṇa-helā brāhmaṇāya dattā 8; (2) a high number: Gaṇḍavyūha 106.12; no corresp. in Gaṇḍavyūha 133.22 or parallel lists.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Helā (हेला).—f.

(-lā) 1. Wanton sport, dalliance, lascivious endearment. 2. Disrespect, contempt. 3. Facility, ease. 4. Moonlight. E. hil to dally, affs. ac and ṭāp; or heḍ to disregard, ac aff., ḍa changed to la .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Helā (हेला).—[hel + ā], f. 1. Sport, [Ratnāvalī, 2. ed. Calc.] 2. ed. 17, 11. 2. Contempt, [Śiśupālavadha] 2, 48. 3. Dallying, lascivious endearment, delight, [Mālatīmādhava, (ed. Calc.)] 157, 19. 4. Manner, Neriosengh, see Gött. Gel. Anz. 1861, p. 1837. 5. instr. layā (properly, Sportively, easily; cf. līlā), At once, [Pañcatantra] ii. [distich] 80; 106, 1; 134, 13; 168, 6; [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 5, 84.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Helā (हेला).—[feminine] wantonness, fickleness, levity, sport; °— & [instrumental] easily, quickly, at once.

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

1) Hela (हेल):—[from heL] (or heḍa) m. anger, passion, hatred, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda]

2) Helā (हेला):—[from hel] f. (ifc. f(ā). ) disrespect, contempt (cf. avahelā)

3) [v.s. ...] wanton sport, frivolity, amorous dalliance (of women; in [dramatic language] one of the 20 natural graces [sattva-ja alaṃkāra] of the Nāyikā), [Daśarūpa; Sāhitya-darpaṇa] etc.

4) [v.s. ...] sport, pastime, carelessness, ease, facility ([in the beginning of a compound] and [instrumental case] sg. or [plural] ‘in sport’, ‘sportively’, ‘easily’, ‘at once’; tṛṇa-helayā, ‘as if it were a straw’), [Kāvya literature; Kathāsaritsāgara] etc.

5) [v.s. ...] moonlight, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

6) [v.s. ...] = prastāva, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Helā (हेला):—(lā) 3. f. Wanton dalliance; contempt; moon light.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Hela (हेल) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Hīla, Hīlā, Helā.

[Sanskrit to German]

Hela in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), 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.

Prakrit-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

1) Helā (हेला) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Helā.

2) Helā (हेला) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Helā.

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Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

1) Hela (हेल):—n. 1. a milkman; 2. heliograph; 3. a rope to tether the horse;

2) Helā (हेला):—n. 1. disregard; disrespect; 2. underestimation; neglect;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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