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muni: feminine vocative singular stem: muni
Amarakosha Search
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Monier-Williams Search
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Devanagari
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munim. (according to to man-) impulse, eagerness (?) View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. (prob.) any one who is moved by inward impulse, an inspired or ecstatic person, enthusiast View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. a saint, sage, seer, ascetic, monk, devotee, hermit (especially one who has taken the vow of silence) etc. etc. (with hṛdayeṣu sthitaḥ-,the internal monitor or conscience ) View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. a Brahman of the highest (eighth) order, View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. Name of a son of kuru- View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of a son of dyuti-mat- View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of vyāsa- View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of bharata- View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of agastya- View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of a buddha- or arhat- View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of pāṇini- etc. (see -traya-) View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of other nien View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of various authors View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. of various plants (Agati Grandiflora, Buchanania Latifolia, Butea Frondosa, Terminalia Catappa, the mango-tree and Artemisia Indica) View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munim. plural "the celestial muni-s", Name of the seven stars of Ursa Major (and there fore a symbolical N. for the number"seven") View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
munin. Name of a varṣa- (called after a royal muni-) View this entry on the original dictionary page scan.
Macdonell Search
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muni m. inspired or ecstatic man (V.); sage, seer, ascetic, hermit, sp. one who has taken the vow of silence (C., rarely in Br.); seer in the heart=conscience: pl. the seven sages (=the seven Rishis) orstars of the Great Bear; sg. N.; N. of the mango tree, Arte misia indica, Butea frondosa, Buchanania latifolia, and Agati grandiflora.
Vedic Index of
Names and Subjects
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muni Occurs in one hymn of the Rigveda where it seems to denote an ascetic of magic powers with divine afflatus (devesita), the precursor of the strange ascetics of later India* This agrees with the fact that Aitaśa, the Muni, is in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa regarded by his son as deranged, a view not unjustified if the nonsense which passes as the Aitaśapralāpa, ‘ Chatter of Aitaśa,’ was really his. The Rigveda calls Indra the ‘ friend of Munis,’ and the Atharvaveda refers to a ‘ divine Muni ’ (deva muni), by whom a similar ascetic may be meant. In the Upaniṣads6 the Muni is of a more restrained type: he is one who learns the nature of the Brahman, the Absolute, by study, or sacrifice, or penance, or fasting, or faith (:śraddha). It must not of course be thought that there is any absolute distinction between the older Muni and the later: in both cases the man is in a peculiar ecstatic condition, but the ideal of the Upaniṣads is less material than the earlier picture of the Muni, who is more of a ‘ medicine man ’ than a sage. Nor would it be wise to conclude from the comparative rareness of the mention of the Muni in the Vedic texts that he was an infrequent figure in Vedic times: he was probably not approved by the priests who followed the ritual, and whose views were essentially different from the ideals of a Muni, which were superior to earthly considerations, such as the desire for children and Dakṣiṇās.
Vedabase Search
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muni and of great sagesSB 5.25.7
muni by sagesSB 6.5.3
muni by the sagesSB 4.16.1
muni great sagesSB 4.1.22
SB 4.24.12
muni great saintly personCC Adi 14.86
muni muniCC Madhya 24.162
CC Madhya 24.293
muni of sagesMM 32
SB 10.57.31
SB 10.78.37
muni of silenceSB 10.53.50
muni of the sage (Vyāsadeva)SB 10.89.20
muni of the sagesSB 11.2.23
muni renunciant sagesSB 10.20.49
muni sagesCC Adi 17.158
muni saintly personsCC Madhya 24.224
muni the great sage Mahāmuni VyāsadevaCC Madhya 20.354
muni the sageCC Adi 3.47
muni the word muniCC Madhya 24.14
muni they are called muniCC Madhya 24.15
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muni noun (masculine) Agati Grandiflora (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a Brāhman of the heighest order (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a saint (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an inspired or ecstatic person (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
any one who is moved by inward impulse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
ascetic (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Buchanania latifolia (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Butea Frondosa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
devotee (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
eagerness (?) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
enthusiast (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
hermit (esp. one who has taken the vow of silence) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
impulse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
monk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the seven stars of Ursa Maior (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of various men (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Sesbania grandiflora Linn. sage (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
seer (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Terminalia Catappa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the mango tree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))

Frequency rank 101/72933
muni noun (feminine) a female Muni (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))

Frequency rank 13119/72933
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