saMjYA 9 A. 1 To know, understand, be aware of. 2 To recognize. 3 To live in harmony, agree together (with acc or instr. ); pitrA pitaraM vA saMjAnIte Sk. 4 To watch, be on the alert; Bk. 8. 27. 5 To accede or agree to. 6 To remember, think of (Paras.); mAtuH mAtaraM vA saMjAnAti Sk. 7 To direct, appoint. — Caus. 1 To inform. 2 To appease, gratify, console. 3 ( a ) To quiet, pacify (a sacrificial animal). ( b ) To kill. 4 To command, enjoin. 5 To animate. 6 To make intelligible, cause to be understood, inform. 7 To make a sign to (any one), communicate by signs.
saMjYA 1 Consciousness; saMjYAM laB , Apad or pratipad ‘to regain or recover one's, consciousness, come to one's senses. 2 Knowledge, understanding. 3 Intellect, mind. 4 A hint, sign, token, gesture; muKArpitEkAMgulisaMjYayEva mA cApalAyeti gaRAn vyatEzIt Ku. 3. 41. 5 A name, designation, an appellation; oft. at the end of comp. in this sense; dvaMdvErvimuktAH suKaduHKasaMjYEH Bg. 15. 5. 6 (In gram. ) Any name or noun having a special meaning, a proper name. 7 The technical name for an affix. 8 The Gāyatrī Mantra; see gAyatrI . 9 N. of the daughter of Viśvakarman and wife of the sun, and mother of Yama, Yamī, and the two Aśvins. [A legend relates that saMjYA on one occasion wished to go to her father's house and asked her husband's permission, which was not granted. Resolved to carry out her purpose, she ( pb ) created, by means of her superhuman power, a woman exactly like herselfwho was, as it were, her own shadow (and was therefore called Chāyā), -and putting her in her own place, went away without the knowledge of the sun. Chāyā bore to the sun three children (see CAyA ), and lived quite happily with him, so that when Saṃjñā returned, he would not admit her. Thus repudiated and disappointed, she assumed the form of a mare and roamed over the earth. The sun, however, in course of time, came to know the real state of things, and discovered that his wife had assumed the form of a mare. He accordingly assumed the form of a horse, and was united with his wife, who bore to him two sonsthe Aśvinīkumāras or Aśvins q. v. ]. Comp. — aDikAraH a leading rule which gives a particular name to the rules falling under it, and which exercises influence over them. — viparyayaH loss of consciousness; Ku. 6. 44. — vizayaH an epithet, an attribute. — sutaH an epithet of Saturn.