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ahimsa

See also: ahiṃsā

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit अहिंसा (ahiṃsā).

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ahimsa (uncountable)

  1. (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them. [from 19th c.]
    • 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 79:
      Already, at this very early date, the ritualists were moving towards the ideal of ahimsa ("harmlessness") that would become the indispensable virtue of the Indian Axial Age.
    • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 9:
      This, in essence, is the Jain doctrine of ahimsa – a direct inversion of Vedic beliefs about the sustaining powers of animal sacrifice.

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अहिंसा (ahiṃsā).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.ˈhɪm.sa/
  • Rhymes: -sa
  • Hyphenation: a‧him‧sa

Noun

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ahimsa (first-person possessive ahimsaku, second-person possessive ahimsamu, third-person possessive ahimsanya)

  1. (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) ahimsa: A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.

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ahimsa m or f (uncountable)

  1. ahimsa (doctrine of non-violence in Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism)
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