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śama

m. tranquillity, calmness, rest, equanimity, quietude or quietism, absence of passion, abstraction from external objects through intense meditation (śamaṃ √ kṛ, ‘to calm one's self’, ‘be tranquil’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

peace, peace with (sārdham), [MBh.]

Quietism or Tranquillity (personified as a son of Dharma and husband of Prāpti), [MBh.]

tranquillization, pacification, allayment, alleviation, cessation, extinction, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

absence of sexual passion or excitement, impotence, [TāṇḍBr.]

alleviation or cure of disease, convalescence, [W.]

final happiness, emancipation from all the illusions of existence, [L.]

indifference, apathy, [Rājat.]

the hand (cf. śaya), [L.]

imprecation, malediction (w.r. for śapa), [L.]

N. of a king of the Nandi-vegas, [MBh.]

of a son of Andhaka, [Hariv.]

of a son of Dharma-sūtra, [BhP.]

śáma mfn. tame, domestic, [RV. i, 32, 15]; [33, 15.]