aṃgaṃ

aṃgaṃ [am gatyādau bā° gan; according to Nir. aṃgaṃ aṃganāt aṃcanāt vā]

1 The body.

2 A limb or member of the body; śeṣāṃganirmāṇavidhau vidhātuḥ Ku. 1. 33; kleśasyāṃgamadattvā Pt. 5. 32 without undergoing troubles; iti svapnopamānmasvā kāmānmā gāstadaṃgatāṃ . Ki. 11. 34 do not be influenced or swayed by them (do not be subject to them).

3 (a.) A division or department (of any thing), a part or portion, as of a (pb) whole; as saptāṃgaṃ rājyaṃ, caturaṃgaṃ balaṃ, catuḥṣaṣṭyaṃgaṃ jyotiḥśāstraṃ see the words; gītāṃgānāṃ Pt. 5. 56; yajñaścetpratiruddhaḥsyādekenāṃgena yajvanaḥ Ms. 11. 11. (Hence) (b.) A supplementary or auxiliary portion, supplement; ṣaḍaṃgaḥ or sāṃgaḥ vedaḥ. (c.) A constituent part, essential requisite or component; sarvairbalāṃgaiḥ R. 7. 59; tadaṃgamagryaṃ maghavan mahākratoḥ R. 3. 46. (d.) An attributive or secondary part; secondary, auxiliary or dependent member (serving to help the principal one) (opp. pradhāna or aṃgin); aṃgī raudrarasastatra sarveṃ'gāni rasāḥ punaḥ S. D. 517; atra svabhāvoktirutprekṣāṃgaṃ Malli. on Ki. 8. 26. (e.) An auxiliary means or expedient ( pradhānopayogī upāyaḥ or upakaraṇaṃ); sarvakāryaśarīreṣu muktvāṃgaskaṃdhapaṃcakaṃ . maṃtro yodha ivādhīraḥ sarvāṃgaiḥ saṃvṛtairapi .. Śi. 2. 28-29; See aṃgāṃgi, paṃcāṃga also (the angas of the several sciences or departments of knowledge will be given under those words).

4 (Gram.) A name for the base of a word; yasmātpratyayavidhistadādipratyaye aṃgaṃ P. I. 4. 13; yaḥ pratyayo yasmātkriyate tadādiśabdasvarūpaṃ tasminpratyaye pare aṃgasaṃjñaṃ syāt Sk. The aṃga terminations are those of the nominative, and accusative singular and dual.

5 (Drama) (a.) One of the sub-divisions of the five joints or sandhis in dramas; the mukha has 12, pratimukha 13, garbha 12, vimarṣa 13 and upasaṃhāra 14, the total number of the angas being thus 64; for details see the words. (b.) The whole body of subordinate characters.

6 (Astr.) A name for the position of stars (lagna), See aṃgādhīśa.

7 A symbolical expression for the number six (derived from the six Vedāṅgas).

8 The mind; hiraṇyagarbhāṃgabhuvaṃ muniṃ hariḥ Śi. 1. 1, See aṃgaja also.

— gaḥ (pl.) N. of a country and the people inhabiting it, the country about the modern Bhāgalpur in Bengal. [It lay on the south of Kauśikī Kaccha and on the right bank of the Ganges. Its capital was Campā, sometimes called Aṅgapurī, Lomapādapurī, Karṇapurī or Mālinī. According to Daṇḍin (aṃgeṣu gaṃgātaṭe bahiścaṃpāyāḥ) and Hiouen Thsang it stood on the Ganges about 24 miles west of a rocky island. General Cunningham has shown that this description applies to the hill opposite Pātharghātā, that it is 24 miles east of Bhāgalpur, and that there are villages called Champanagar and Champapura adjoining the last. According to Sanskrit poets the country of the Aṅgas lay to the east of Girivraja the capital of Magadha and to the north-east or south-east of Mithilā. The country (pb) was in ancient times ruled by Karṇa.]

— a.

1 Contiguous.

2 Having members or divisions.

Comp.

— aṃgi,

— aṃgībhāvaḥ [aṃgasya aṃgino bhāvaḥ] the relation of a limb to the body, of the subordinate to the principal, or of that which is helped or fed to the helper or feeder (gauṇamukhyabhāvaḥ, upakāryopakārakabhāvaśca); e. g. prayāja and other rites are to darśa as its angas, while darśa is to them the angī; aṃgāṃgibhāvamajñātvā kathaṃ sāmarthyanirṇayaḥ . paśya ṭiṭṭibhamātreṇa samudro vyākulīkṛtaḥ .. H. 2. 149; atra vākye samāsagatayorupamayoḥ sādhyasādhanabhāvāt °vena saṃbaṃdhaḥ Malli. on Ki. 6. 2; aviśrāṃtijuṣāmātmanyaṃgāṃgitvaṃ tu saṃkaraḥ K. P. 10 (anugrāhyānugrāhakatvaṃ).

— adhipaḥ, adhīśaḥ

1 lord of the Aṅgas, N. of Karṇa (cf. °rājaḥ, °patiḥ, °īśvaraḥ, °adhīśvaraḥ).

2 ‘lord of a lagnaṃ, the planet presiding over it; (aṃgādhipe balini sarvavibhūtisaṃpat; aṃgādhīśaḥ svagehe budhagurukavibhiḥ saṃyuto vīkṣito vā Jyotiṣa).

— apūrvaṃ effect of a secondary sacrificial act.

— karman

— n. kriyā

1 besmearing the body with fragrant cosmetics, rubbing it &c. Dk. 39.

2 a supplementary sacrificial act.

— grahaḥ spasm; seizure of the body with some illness.

— ja jāta a. [aṃgāt jāyate jan-ḍa.] produced from or on the body, being in or on the body, bodily; °jaṃ rajaḥ, °jāḥ alaṃkārāḥ &c.

2 produced by a supplementary rite.

3 beautiful, ornamental. ( jaḥ) janus also

1 a son.

2 hair of the body (n. also); tavottarīyaṃ karicarma sāṃgajaṃ Ki. 18. 32.

3 love, cupid (aṃgaṃ manaḥ tasmājjātaḥ); intoxicating passion; aṃgajarāgadīpanāt Dk. 161.

4 drunkenness, intoxication.

5 a disease. (

— jā) a daughter. (

— jaṃ) blood.

— jvaraḥ [ aṃgamaṃgaṃ adhikṛtya jvaraḥ] the disease called rājayakṣmā, a sort of consumption.

— dvīpaḥ one of the six minor Dvīpas.

— nyāsaḥ [aṃgeṣu maṃtrabhedasya nyāsaḥ] touching the limbs of the body with the hand accompanied by appropriate Mantras.

— pāliḥ f. [aṃgaṃ pālyate saṃbadhyate 'tra, aṃga-pāl-i] an embrace (probably a corruption of aṃkapāli).

— pālikā = aṃkapāli q. v.

— pratyaṃgaṃ [samā. dvaṃdva] every limb, large and small; °gāni pāṇinā spṛṣṭvā K. 167, 72.

— prāyaścittaṃ [aṃgasya śuddhyarthaṃ prāyaścittaṃ] expiation of bodily impurity, such as that caused by the death of a relative, consisting in making presents (paṃcaśūnājanyaduritakṣayārthaṃ kāryaṃ dānarūpaṃ prāyaścittaṃ Tv.).

— bhūḥ a. [aṃgāt manaso vā bhavati; bhū-kvip] born from the body (pb) or mind. (

— bhūḥ)

1 a son.

2 Cupid.

3 [aṃgānāṃ aṃgamaṃtrāṇāṃ bhūḥ sthānaṃ] one who has touched and purified, and then restrained, his limbs by repeating the Mantras pertaining to those limbs; brahmāṃgabhūrbrahmaṇi yojitātmā Ku. 3. 15 (sadyojātādimaṃtrāṇāṃ aṃgānāṃ hṛdayādimaṃtrāṇāṃ bhūḥ sthānaṃ, kṛtamaṃtranyāsaḥ Malli.).

— bhaṃgaḥ

1 palsy or paralysis of limbs; °vikala iva bhūtvā sthāsyāmi Ś. 2. 2. twisting or stretching out of the limbs (as is done by a man just after he rises from sleep); sāṃgabhaṃgamutthāya Vb.; jṛṃbhitaiḥ sāṃgabhaṃgaiḥ Mu. 3. 21, K. 85.

— maṃtraḥ N. of a Mantra.

— mardaḥ [aṃgaṃ mardayati; mṛd ṇic]

1 one who shampoos his master's body.

2 [bhāve ghañ] act of shampooing; so °mardakā or °mardin, (mṛṭ-ṇic ṇvul or ṇini) one who shampoos.

— marṣaḥ [ṣa. ta.] rheumatism; °praśamanaṃ the curing of this disease.

— yajñaḥ, yāgaḥ [aṃgībhūtaḥ yajñaḥ] a subordinate sacrificial act which is of

5 sorts: samidho yajati, tanūnapātaṃ yajati, iḍo yajati, barhiryajati, svāhākāraṃ yajati iti paṃcavidhāḥ . eteṣāṃ sakṛdanaṣṭhānenaiva taṃtranyāyena pradhānayāgānāmāgneyādīnāmupakāriteti mīmāṃsā Tv.

— raktaḥ ktaṃ [aṃge avayave raktaḥ] N. of a plant guḍārocanī found in kāṃpilya country and having red powder (raktāṃgalocanī).

— rakṣakaḥ [aṃgaṃ rakṣati; rakṣ-ṇvul] a body-guard, personal attendant Pt. 3.

— rakṣaṇī [aṃgaṃ rakṣyate 'nayā] a coat of mail, or a garment. (

— ṇaṃ) protection of person.

— rāgaḥ [aṃgaṃ rajyate anena karaṇe ghañ]

1 a scented cosmetic, application of perfumed unguents to the body, fragrant unguent; puṣpagaṃdhena aṃgarāgeṇa R. 12. 27, 6. 60, Ku. 5. 11.

2 [bhāve lyuṭ] act of anointing the body with unguents.

— ruhaṃ [aṃge rohati; ruh kvip sa. ta.] hair; vihaṃgarājāṃgaruhairivāyataiḥ Śi. 1. 7.

— lipiḥ f. written character of the Aṅgas.

— lepaḥ [aṃgaṃ lipyate anena; lipkaraṇe ghañ]

1 a scented cosmetic.

2 [bhāve ghañ] act of anointing.

— loḍyaḥ (ety. ?) a kind of grass, ginger or its root, Amomum Zingiber.

— vikala a. [tṛ. ta.]

1 maimed, paralysed.

2 fainting, swooning.

— vikṛtiḥ f.

1 change of bodily appearance; collapse.

2 [aṃgasya vikṛtiścālanādiryasmāt paṃ. ba.] an apoplectic fit, swooning, apoplexy (apasmāra).

— vikāraḥ a bodily defect.

— vikṣepaḥ

1 movement of the limbs; gesticulation.

2 a kind of dance.

— vidyā [aṃgarūpā vyākaraṇādiśāstrarūpā vidyā jñānasādhanaṃ]

1 the science of grammar &c. contributing to knowledge.

2 the science of (pb) foretelling good or evil by the movements of limbs; N. of chapter 51 of Bṛhat Saṃhitā which gives full details of this science; na nakṣatrāṃgavidyayā… bhikṣāṃ lipsetakarhicit Ms. 6. 50.

— vidhiḥ [aṃgasya pradhānopakāriṇaḥ vidhiḥ vidhānaṃ] a subordinate or subsidiary act subservient to a knowledge of the principal one ( pradhānavidhividheyakarmaṇoṃgabodhakatayā aṃgavidhiḥ).

— vīraḥ chief or principal hero.

— vaikṛtaṃ [ aṃgena aṃgaceṣṭayā vaikṛtaṃ hṛdayabhāvo jñāpyate yatra bahu.]

1 a sign, gesture or expression of the face leading to a knowledge of internal thoughts (ākāra).

2 a nod, wink.

3 changed bodily appearance.

— vaiguṇyaṃ a defect or flaw in the performance of some subordinate or subsidiary act which may be expiated by thinking of Viṣṇu; śrāddhādipaddhatau karmāṃte yatkiṃcidaṃgavaiguṇyaṃ jātaṃ taddoṣapraśamanāya viṣṇusmaraṇamahaṃ kariṣye ityabhilāpavākyaṃ Tv..

— saṃskāraḥ, saṃskriyā [aṃgaṃ saṃskriyate anena; kṛ-karaṇe or bhāve-ghañ]

1 embellishment of person, personal decoration, doing whatever secures a fine personal appearance, such as bathing, rubbing the body, perfuming it with cosmetics &c.

2 [kartari aṇ] one who decorates or embellishes the person.

— saṃhatiḥ f. compactness, symmetry; body; stheyasīṃ dadhatamaṃgasaṃhatiṃ Ki. 13. 50; or strength of the body.

— saṃgaḥ bodily contact, union; coition.

— sevakaḥ a personal attendant, body-guard.

— skaṃdhaḥ [karma.] a subdivision of a science.

— sparśaḥ fitness or qualification for bodily contact or being touched by others.

— hāniḥ f.

1 a defect or flaw in the performance of a secondary or subsidiary act (= °vaiguṇyaṃ); daivād bhramāt pramādāccedaṃgahāniḥ prajāyate . smaraṇādeva tadviṣṇoḥ saṃpūrṇaṃ syāditi śrutiḥ .. hāraḥ [aṃgaṃ hriyate itastataḥ cālyate yatra, hṛ-ādhāre or bhāve ghañ] gesticulation, movements of the limbs, a dance; saṃsaktairaguruvaneṣu sāṃgahāraṃ Ki. 7. 37, Ku. 7. 91.

— hāriḥ [ aṃgaṃ hriyate 'tra; hṛ-bā°ṇi]

1 gesticulation.

2 stage; dancing-hall.

— hīna a. [tṛ. ta.]

1 mutilated, deprived of some limb, crippled.

2 having some defective limb (aṃgaṃ hīnaṃ yathocitapramāṇāt alpaṃ yasya); according to Suśruta a man is so born, if the mother's dohada has not been duly fulfilled (sā prāptadaurhṛdā putraṃ janayeta guṇānvitam . alabdhadaurhṛdā garbhe labhetātmani vā bhayam .. yeṣu yeṣviṃdriyārtheṣu daurhṛde vai vimānanā . jāyate tatsutasyārtistasmiṃstasmiṃstatheṃdriye).