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ahiṃsā

ahiṃsā f. not injuring anything, harmlessness (one of the cardinal virtues of most Hindū sects, but particularly of the Buddhists and Jain s; also personified as the wife of Dharma , VāmP. ), ChUp. ; Nir. ; Mn. &c.

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1. ahiṃsā

ahiṃsā f. not injuring anything, harmlessness (one of the cardinal virtues of most Hindū sects, but particularly of the Buddhists and Jain s; also personified as the wife of Dharma , VāmP. ), ChUp. ; Nir. ; Mn. &c.

2. ahiṃsā

security, safeness, ŚBr. ; AitBr.

3. āhiṃs

āhiṃs Ā. hiṃsate, to attack, make war upon, TāṇḍyaBr.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.