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śūnya

śūnyá mf(A)n. empty, void (with vājin = ‘a riderless horse’; with rājya = ‘a kingless kingdom’), hollow, barren, desolate, deserted, [Br.] &c. &c.


empty i.e. vacant (as a look or stare), absent, absentminded, having no certain object or aim, distracted, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.


empty i.e. possessing nothing, wholly destitute, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]


wholly alone or solitary, having no friends or companions, [R.]; [BhP.]


void of, free from, destitute of (instr. or comp.), wanting, lacking, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Pur.]; [Sarvad.] non-existent, absent, missing, [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.]


vain, idle, unreal, nonsensical, [R.]; [Rājat.]; [Sarvad.]


void of results, ineffectual (a-śūnyaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to effect’, ‘accomplish’), [Śak.]; [Ratnāv.]


free from sensitiveness or sensation (said of the skin), insensible, [Bhpr.]


bare, naked, [MW.]


guileless, innocent, [ib.]


indifferent, [ib.]


śūnyá n. a void, vacuum, empty or deserted place, desert (śūnye, in a lonely place), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.


(in phil.) vacuity, nonentity, absolute non-existence (esp. with Buddhists), [IW. 83 n. 3]; [105, n. 4]; [MWB. 7 n. 1]; [142]


N. of Brahma, [MW.]


(in arithm.) nought, a cypher, [VarBṛS.]; [Gaṇit.] (cf. [IW. 183])


space, heaven, atmosphere, [L.]


a partic. phenomenon in the sky, [L.]


an earring (see next). [cf. Gk. κενός, κενεός; Aeol. κέννος.]


&c. See p. 1085, col. 1.