ātmán m. (variously derived fr. an, to breathe; at, to move; vā, to blow; cf. tmán) the breath, [RV.]
the soul, principle of life and sensation, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
the individual soul, self, abstract individual [e.g. ātmán (Ved. loc.) dhatte, or karoti, ‘he places in himself’, makes his own, [TS. v]; [ŚBr.]; ātmanā akarot, ‘he did it himself’, [Kād.]; ātmanā vi-√ yuj, ‘to lose one's life’, [Mn. vii, 46]; in the sg. is used as reflexive pronoun for all three persons and all three genders, e.g. ātmānaṃ sā hanti, ‘she strikes herself’; putram ātmanaḥ spṛṣṭvā nipetatuḥ, ‘they two having touched their son fell down’, [R. ii, 64, 28]; see also below s.v. ātmanā]
ātmane—pada n. ‘word to one's self’, form for one's self i.e. that form of the verb which implies an action belonging or reverting to self, the terminations of the middle voice, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 100] and [3, 12].