Sambandha, Saṃbandha: 15 definitions




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Mīmāṃsā (school of philosophy)

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Source: Srimatham: Mīmāṃsa: The Study of Hindu Exegesis

Sambandha (सम्बन्ध) refers to one of the four criteria every Tantric or Yogic text must include.—Sambandha the connection between the title (abhidhāna) and the subject matter.

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Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)

Source: Wikisource: A dictionary of Sanskrit grammar

1) Saṃbandha (संबन्ध).—Lit.connection in general;cf. धातुसंबन्धे प्रत्ययाः (dhātusaṃbandhe pratyayāḥ) P.III. 4.I. The word is explained by the general term विशेषणविशेष्यभाव (viśeṣaṇaviśeṣyabhāva); cf. संबन्धो विशेषणविशेष्य-भावः (saṃbandho viśeṣaṇaviśeṣya-bhāvaḥ) Kas. on P.III.4.1 ;

2) Saṃbandha.—Context, cf. संबन्धादतद् गन्तव्यं यं प्रति यदप्रधानं तं प्रति तदुपसर्जनं भवति (saṃbandhādatad gantavyaṃ yaṃ prati yadapradhānaṃ taṃ prati tadupasarjanaṃ bhavati) M. Bh. on P. I. 2.43. Vart. 5.

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Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)

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Source: Shodhganga: Iconographical representations of Śiva

Sambandha (सम्बन्ध, “relationship”).—Śaiva school of philosophy holds two principles pertaining to origin and relationship (sambandha) of Āgamas and how it reached the man kind. They are Mahaughakramalakṣaṇa-sambandha and Pratisaṃhitāgurulakṣaṇa-sambandha in both the aspects Sadāśiva is the revealer of the Āgamas. The above mentioned principles are elaborately explained by Anantaśambhu in his commentary on Siddhāntasārāvali of Trilocanaśivācārya.

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Nyaya (school of philosophy)

[«previous next»] — Sambandha in Nyaya glossary
Source: Shodhganga: A study of Nyāya-vaiśeṣika categories

Sambandha (सम्बन्ध, “relation”) has the main role in the process of the generation of knowledge.—The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣikas being realist uphold the separate existences of all things which are knowable and nameable. Hence, the concept of relation (sambandha) is of utmost importance to maintain the relation between the substrates (dharmī) and properties (dharma) which are entirety different entities. Of the seven categories (padārtha) accepted by the Vaiśeṣikas the sixth category i.e., samavāya is a relation. Some of the qualities are also relational viz., conjunction, disjunction, number and separateness. Later on the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣikas developed the notion that anything can function as a relation by combining itself to another thing. “In Navya-Nyāyafurther useful technical terminology was developed to handle relations, as their awareness of the importance of relations for their system increased”.

In the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system, all relations (sambandha) are external. The Naiyāyikas have used tādātmya, as a relation, but as an external relation. Naiyāyikas opine that, it cannot be gained from the nature of a thing. It is seen that a dharma is complete different from a dharmin, an avayavin (a composite whole) is complete separate from its avayavas (component parts), jāti is totally distinct from vyakti. In all these cases, there must be some relation to account for their existence in the same locus.

Broadly relation (sambandha) can be divided into two types, viz.,–

  1. vṛttiniyāmaka (occurrence-exacting),
  2. vṛttyaniyāmaka (non-occurrence-exacting).

Those relations which have roughly the notion that something occurs in something else is called Vṛttiniyāmaka relation. Vṛttiniyāmaka is also of three kinds–(i) saṃyoga (conjunction), (ii) samavāya (inherence) and (iii) viśeṣaṇatā (attributive). Viśeṣaṇatā is again subdivided into abhāviya-viśeṣaṇatā or relation pertaining to the non-existence and kālika-viśeṣaṇatā or relation of temporal qualification.

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Pali-English dictionary

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

sambandha : (m.) connection.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Sambandha, (saṃ+bandha) connection, tie D. II, 296=M. I, 58; SnA 108, 166, 249, 273, 343, 516. °-kula related family J. III, 362; a-sambandha (adj.) incompatible (C. on asaññuta J. III, 266). (Page 693)

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Marathi-English dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

sambandha (संबंध).—m (S) Connection or relation generally. See trividhasambandha. 2 The ghost or spirit of a deceased Brahman.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

sambandha (संबंध).—m Connection, relation.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Saṃbandha (संबन्ध).—a. Able, capable.

2) Fit, proper, right.

-ndhaḥ 1 Connection, union, association.

2) Relation, relationship.

3) Relation, as the meaning of the genitive case.

4) Matrimonial alliance; विक्रियायै न कल्पन्ते संबन्धाः सदनुष्ठिताः (vikriyāyai na kalpante saṃbandhāḥ sadanuṣṭhitāḥ) Ku.6.29,3; जनकानां रघूणां च संबन्धः कस्य न प्रियः (janakānāṃ raghūṇāṃ ca saṃbandhaḥ kasya na priyaḥ) U.1.17.

5) Friendly connection, friendship; संबन्धमाभाषणपूर्वमाहुः (saṃbandhamābhāṣaṇapūrvamāhuḥ) R.2.58.

6) Fitness, propriety.

7) Prosperity, success.

8) A relation, kinsman.

9) A collection, volume, book.


Sambandha (सम्बन्ध).—mfn.

(-ndhaḥ-ndhā-ndhaṃ) 1. Able, capable. 2. Fit, right, proper. 3. Adjunct, annexed or connected, inherent, &c. m.

(-ndhaḥ) 1. Prosperity, success. 2. Fitness, propriety. 3. Connection, natural or essential connection, as of a property with a substance, subject matter with a work, proper meaning with a word, &c. 4. Connection by birth or marriage, relationship. 5. The application of authority, as of the Upanishads to prove a theological assertion, &c. 6. Mental association of objects, conceiving them in connection with each other. 7. (In grammar,) The possessive case. E. sam with, and bandha a binding.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃbandha (संबन्ध).—i. e. sam-bandh + a, 1. Connexion, union, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 3, 157; [Uttara Rāmacarita, 2. ed. Calc., 1862.] 27, 15 (mad-, with me); [Vedāntasāra, (in my Chrestomathy.)] in Chr. 202, 9 (of intimately united subjects, cf. 204, 1; 212, 19; 21). 2. Relationship, [Pañcatantra] ii. [distich] 106; relation, [Hitopadeśa] i. [distich] 157, M.M. (asyedam iti sambandho hānau duḥkhena gamyate, The proprietary connection between them is ascertained only by his grief in losing it). 3. Fitness, propriety. 4. Success, prosperity.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃbandha (संबन्ध).—[masculine] collection; connection, relationship or fellowship of any kind ([instrumental] ±saha, [locative], or —°); also concr. a relation, friend, comrade, ally, etc.


1) Sambandha (सम्बन्ध):—[=sam-bandha] [from sam-bandh] m. (ifc. f(ā). ) binding or joining together, close connection or union or association, conjunction, inherence, connection with or relation to ([instrumental case] with or without saha, or [compound]; in [philosophy] relation or connexion is said to be of three kinds, viz. samavāya, saṃyoga, and sva-rūpa q.v.), [???; Śaṃkarācārya; Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]; personal connection (by marriage), relationship, fellowship, friendship, intimacy with ([instrumental case] with and without saha [locative case], or [compound]), [Pāraskara-gṛhya-sūtra; Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] a relation, relative, kinsman, fellow, friend, ally, [Āpastamba; Mahābhārata; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

3) [v.s. ...] a collection, volume, book, [Śukasaptati]

4) [v.s. ...] a [particular] kind of calamity, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]

5) [v.s. ...] prosperity, success, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

6) [v.s. ...] fitness, propriety, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

7) [v.s. ...] the application of authority to prove a theological doctrine, [Horace H. Wilson]

8) [v.s. ...] mfn. able, capable, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

9) [v.s. ...] fit, right, proper, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

10) [v.s. ...] (ifc.) often [wrong reading] for sam-baddha (q.v.)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sambandha (सम्बन्ध):—(ndhaṃ) 1. m. Connexion, relation; mental association; quoting a textual proof; suitableness; fitness; success; possessive case. a. Connected; fit, able; inherent.

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Saṃbandha (संबन्ध):—(von bandh mit sam) m.

1) Sammlung, Collection: saptati [ŚUK.] in [Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 34, 3. 4.] —

2) Zusammenhang, Verbindung, Beziehung; = svasvāmitvādi [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 3. 2.] [Halāyudha 5, 52.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 5, 11.] [LĀṬY. 9, 6, 21.] saṃbandhe ṣaṣṭhī [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 5, 23.] asyedamiti saṃbandhaḥ [Spr. (II) 769.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 16, 7.] [] zu [Chāndogyopaniṣad] [?S. 2. 36. Sāhityadarpana 694. Vedānta lecture No. 5. 16. 95. fgg. Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 1, 49, Scholiast Vopadeva’s Grammatik Einl. SARVADARŚANAS. 4, 9. 13, 8. 159, 3. 4.] śabdārthayoḥ [166, 12. fg.] yajñena [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 33, Scholiast] uttarapadena saha Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 3, 1.] uttaratra upādityasyaiva saṃbandhaḥ syāt so v. a. ist zu ergänzen [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 3, 84, Scholiast] Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā Prātiśākhya 10, 22.] ityādyasya kaḥ saṃbandhaḥ wie hängt das zusammen? [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [S. 62.] am Ende eines comp.; voran geht a) die Species der Beziehung: sāmānādhikaraṇya [Vedānta lecture No. 97.] viśeṣaviśeṣyabhāva 98. lakṣyalakṣaṇabhāva 99. sāmīpyādi [Sāhityadarpana 11, 5.] paraṃparā [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 8, 1, 24, Scholiast] — b) die Dinge, die im Zusammenhange oder in Beziehung zu einander stehen: svasvāmi [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 3, 50, Scholiast] saṃjñāsaṃjñi [SARVADARŚANAS. 5, 2.] prāguktaskandhadvaya [20, 14.] — c) das, womit etwas Anderes in Verbindung tritt oder in Beziehung steht: tatsaṃbandha [Yāska’s Nirukta 11, 2.] sva [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 22, 11, 32.] [Kapila 1, 12. 92.] dhātusaṃbandhe pratyayāḥ [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 4, 1.] [Spr. (II) 3357.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 49, 207.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 2, 9, 1. 7, 1, 84.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 34, 12. 50, 12.] yena ṛṇasaṃbandho nyajanmanyapi na bhavati [Pañcatantra ed. orn. 64, 22. fg.] — Am Ende eines adj. comp. (f. ā): antaḥpura (vielleicht saṃbaddha zu lesen) in Beziehung stehend —, gehörend zu [Sāhityadarpana 539.] —

3) persönliche Beziehung, ein auf Verwandtschaft, Heirath, Freundschaft, gleichen Studien u. s. w. beruhendes näheres Verhältniss [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 3, 10.] brāhmaṇairyaunaiśca saṃbandhaiḥ [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 157.] yuktarūpo hi saṃbandhe tvaṃ no rājanvayaṃ tava [Mahābhārata 1, 4431.] [Harivaṃśa 5246.] [KĀM. NĪTIS. 15, 28. 17, 4.] saṃbandhamābhāṣaṇapūrvamāhuḥ [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 58. 5, 40.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 6, 29.] [Spr. (II) 3944. 5064.] yāvataḥ kurute jantuḥ saṃbandhānmanasaḥ priyān [5474. 5823.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 10,196. 13,70. 21,59. 34,221.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1,243.] [Oxforder Handschriften 25,a,15. 85,a,26.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7,1,30.] matsyabhāratayoḥ [Mahābhārata 4, 2325.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 72, 8. 4, 4, 16.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 65, 7.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 18, 21.] [Scholiast] zu [Śākuntala 51.] naitaiḥ brāhmānyaunāṃśca saṃbandhānācaret (so ist zu lesen) [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 40. 4, 244.] [Mahābhārata 1, 6153.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 1, 19, 4.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 29, 5.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 76, 34. 113, 6.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 422.] tvayā saha [Mahābhārata 3, 16703.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 69, 11 (71, 11 Gorresio).] [Spr. (II) 1488.] asmākamapi saṃbandhaḥ kapimukhyaḥ mahāṃstvayi (tvayā?) [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 7, 31.] am Ende eines comp.; voran geht: a) die Species des näheren Verhältnisses: anyonyodvāha [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 351.] — b) die Personen (Geschlechter), die in einem näheren Verhältniss stehen: apatyasaṃbandho yuvayoḥ [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 74, 3.] kula [Rāmāyaṇa] [SCHL. 1, 72, 10.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 21, 80.] — c) diejenige Person, mit der man in ein näheres Verhältniss tritt, [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 71, 12.] kuruṣva svāmisaṃbandham [?4, 25, 7. Mālavikāgnimitra 67, 19. 74, 6. UTTARAR. 20, 15 (27, 15). Spr. (II) 5516.] tatsaṃbandhaṃ sametya [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 21, 59.] [Pañcatantra 36, 14.] sārdhaṃ rāyānavaiśyena tatsaṃbandhaṃ cakāra saḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 25,a,10.] strī so v. a. Heirath [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 6.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 6, 366.] dāra dass. [Mahābhārata 1, 7238.] — d) das, worauf das nähere Verhältniss beruht: vidyāyoni [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 3, 23.] dharmakāmārthasaṃbandhaṃ na smarāmi tvayā saha [Mahābhārata 1, 3007.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 72, 3.] — Am Ende eines adj. comp. (f. ā) [Spr. (II) 1495. 3995.] [Mālavikāgnimitra 8, 17.] asaṃbandhā (vielleicht asaṃbaddhā zu lesen) yonitaḥ [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 129.] — Concret so v. a. Freund, Bundesgenosse [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 27, 17.] —

4) Bez. eines best. Ungemachs [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 98, 7.] nach [UTPALA] = rājakula āveśanam; man könnte saṃbādha vermuthen. —

5) = samṛddhi und nyāya [AJAYA im Śabdakalpadruma] nach ders. Aut. auch adj. = śakta und hita . —

6) fehlerhaft für saṃbaddha, z. B. sarvaṃ parvatasaṃbandham (saṃnaddham [SCHL.]) [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 39, 20.] asaṃbandhapralāpitvam [KĀM. NĪTIS. 14, 59.] svasaṃbandhāṃ kathām [Kathāsaritsāgara 24, 18.] saṃbandhārtha [Amarakoṣa ed. COLEBR. 3, 4, 13, 89.] [Oxforder Handschriften 269], a, [32.] Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā Prātiśākhya 11, 1] (niṣedhasaṃbaddhaṃ zu lesen). [14, 18.] für saṃrabdha (so die neuere Ausg.) [Harivaṃśa 2981.] asaṃbandha fehlerhaft für asaṃbādha [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 18.] — Vgl. ku, piṇḍa, brahma, yathāsaṃbandham .

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