མཚན་

མཚན། (Wyl. mtshan ) Pron.: tsen

• Skt. लिङ्गम्, liṅga, Pron.: linga. From Sanskrit: once | in | only in | prob. fr. | a mark, spot, sign, token, badge, emblem, characteristic | any assumed or false badge or mark, guise, disguise | a proof, evidence | a sign of guilt, corpus delicti | the sign of gender or sex, organ of generation | the male organ or Phallus (•esp. that of Śiva worshipped in the form of a stone or marble column which generally rises out of a | and is set up in temples dedicated to Śiva | formerly 12 principal Śiva-liñgas existed, of which the best known are Soma-nātha in Gujarāt, Mahā-kāla at Ujjayinī, Viśve7śvara at Benares | but the number of Liñgas in India is estimated at 30 millions | gender | in gram. | Prst. | the image of a god, an idol | (in logic) | the invariable mark which proves the existence of anything in an object (as in the proposition 'there is fire because there is smoke', smoke is the | inference, conclusion, reason | anything having an origin and therefore liable to be destroyed again | (in Sāṃkhya) | or | 'the eternal procreative germ' | the crude base or uninflected stem of a noun | shortened into | in | an indication (word that serves to fix the meaning of another word | in the passage | the word | restricts the meaning of | to | the order of the religious student | a symptom, mark of disease [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW
• Skt. निमित्तम्, nimitta, Pron.: nimitta. From Sanskrit: possibly connected with | above | a butt, mark, target | sign, omen | cause, motive, ground, reason | (in all oblique cases = because of, on account of | caused or occasioned by | to be the cause of anything | (in •phil.) instrumental or efficient cause (•opp. to | the operative or material cause [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW