Hinanga, Hīnāṅga, Hina-anga, Hinamga: 12 definitions
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Hinanga means something in 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.
In Hinduism
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Source: eScholarship: Chapters 1-14 of the Hayasirsa PancaratraHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग) refers to “one who is crippled (missing a limb)”, representing an undesirable characteristic of an Ācārya, according to the 9th-century Hayaśīrṣa-pañcarātra Ādikāṇḍa chapter 3.—The Lord said:—“I will tell you about the Sthāpakas endowed with perverse qualities. He should not construct a temple with those who are avoided in this Tantra. [...] He should not be a Punarbhū, a Svayambhū, a widow’s bastard, or a non-believer, nor irrational, pale, bald or crippled (hīnāṅga) or fat. [...] A god enshrined by any of these named above (viz., hīnāṅga), is in no manner a giver of fruit. If a building for Viṣṇu is made anywhere by these excluded types (viz., hīnāṅga) then that temple will not give rise to enjoyment and liberation and will yield no reward, of this there is no doubt”.
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Source: Google Books: ManthanabhairavatantramHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग) refers to “one who has some of his limbs missing”, 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, while describing the signs of one who is not a Siddha: “He is excessively tall, bald, deformed, short, dwarfish, his nose is ugly or he has black teeth and is wrathful . Some of his limbs are missing [i.e., hīnāṅga] and is deceitful, cripple and deformed, foolish, inauspicious, envious, deluded, badly behaved, and violent; without any teacher, he is devoid of the rites, he maligns the Krama without cause, he is not devoted to the Siddhas, he (always) suffers and is without wisdom. He is (always) ill and one should know that he is (always) attached (to worldly objects) and has no scripture. He has no energy and is dull and lazy. Ugly, he lives by cheating and, cruel, he is deluded, and devoid of (any) sense of reality. Such is the characteristic of one who is not accomplished (asiddha) in a past life”.
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)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Source: archive.org: The Elephant Lore of the HindusHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग) refers to “those (elephants) who are mutilated in a member”, according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 6, “on determination of measurements”]: “5. As to elephants which are overstout or lean likewise, or mutilated in a member (hīnāṅga), their members (or bodies) are not measurable (in terms of the standard measurements), nor their subsidiary members, O prince”.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryhīnāṅga (हीनांग).—a (S) Of defective body; crippled, maimed, mutilated.
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 dictionaryHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—a. deficient in a limb, crippled, maimed, defective; हीनाङ्गी वाधिकाङ्गी वा या भवेत् कन्यका नृणाम् । भर्तुः स्यात् सा विनाशाय स्वशीलनिधनाय च (hīnāṅgī vādhikāṅgī vā yā bhavet kanyakā nṛṇām | bhartuḥ syāt sā vināśāya svaśīlanidhanāya ca) || Pañcatantra (Bombay) 5.95; Manusmṛti 4.141; Y. 1.222.
-gī a small ant.
Hīnāṅga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hīna and aṅga (अङ्ग).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—mfn.
(-ṅgaḥ-ṅgī-ṅgaṃ) Crippled, maimed, defective. f. (-ṅgī) An ant. E. hīna deficient, aṅga the body.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—(vb. 2. hā), I. adj. maimed, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 4, 141. Ii. f. gī, an ant.
Hīnāṅga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hīna and aṅga (अङ्ग).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग).—[feminine] ā & ī deficient in limbs or parts.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Hīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग):—[from hīna > hā] mf(ā or ī)n. defective in limb, crippled, lame, mutilated, [ṢaḍvBr.; Manu-smṛti; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]
2) [v.s. ...] incomplete in parts, imperfect, [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra [Scholiast or Commentator]]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryHīnāṅga (हीनाङ्ग):—[hīnā+ṅga] (ṅgaḥ-ṅgī-ṅgaṃ) a. Crippled, maimed. f. (ī) An ant.
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusHīnāṃga (ಹೀನಾಂಗ):—[noun] a physically disabled, maimed man.
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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Partial matches: Hina, Anga, Anka.
Starts with: Hinangadarshana.
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Full-text: Hinamga, Hinangadarshana, Angahina, Adhikanga, Anga.
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