1 The soul, the inherent spirit.
2 The internal feelings, the heart or mind.
E. antar, and ātman soul.
paramātman and puruṣa) as residing in the interior of man, as
the inward Spirit or individual Soul. In the Upanishads
the words puruṣa, ātman and antarātman are often used
apparently as synonymes, but the term antarātman is, more
especially, appropriated there to the notion of the Supreme
Soul when it resides, according to their doctrine, in the
interior of the heart, of a thumb's size (‘aṅguṣṭhamātraḥ pu-
ruṣo'ntarātmā sadā janānāṃ hṛdaye saṃniviṣṭaḥ’); [a devia-
tion, however, in this respect may be noticed in a passage
of the same Kaṭha-Upan. which contains also the preceding
quotation (viz. aṅguṣṭhamātraḥ puruṣo madhya ātmani tiṣṭhati)
where puruṣaḥ seems to have been considered as distinct
from ātman and not residing in the heart, although Śan-
kara endeavours to effect a reconciliation with the general
doctrine by interpreting ātman in that passage by śarīra].
--In the Vedānta the notion of the antarātman has passed
into that of the jīvātman q. v. In the other philosophies
the terms ātman and puruṣa, in the sense they assume in these
phil., have superseded the term antarātman.--Manu uses
the word antarātman sometimes in the general sense of ā-
tman, sometimes in the special sense of jīvātman (e. g. jī-
vasaṃjño'ntarātmānyaḥ sahajaḥ sarvadehinām); Yājnavalkya, how-
ever, employs the terms ātman and antarātman as syno-
nymes to denote the Universal Soul, while he associates
with puruṣa the idea of the manifested or individual Soul (a-
nādirātmā saṃbhūtirvidyate nāntarātmanaḥ . samavāyo tu puruṣo
mohecchādveṣakarmajaḥ; comp. also mohajālamapāsyeha puruṣo dṛśyate
hi yaḥ sahasrakarapannetraḥ sūryavarcāḥ sahasrakaḥ . sa ātmā &c.).
2 (In the non-philosophical literature.) Soul, mind, self;
used in the same sense as ātman. E. antar and ātman;
or perhaps a Karmadh., antara and ātman; comp. e. g.
vapustuṣādibhiḥ koṣairyuktaṃ yuktyavaghātataḥ . ātmānamantaraṃ śuddhaṃ
vivicyāttaṇḍulaṃ yathā ...
m. (-tmā)
1. The soul, the inherent spirit.
2. The internal
feelings, the heart or mind.
E. antar, and ātman soul.
anima) anima. N. 5. 31. 20. 42. BH. 11. 24.