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निर्-°वाण mfn. mfn. blown or put out, extinguished (as a lamp or fire), set (as the sun), calmed, quieted, tamed (cf. अ-निर्व्°), dead, deceased (lit. having the fire of life extinguished), lost, disappeared, [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c. immersed, plunged, [L.] immovable, [L.] निर्-°वाण n. n. blowing out, extinction, cessation, setting, vanishing, disappearance (°णं-√ कृ, to make away with anything i.e. not to keep one's promise) extinction of the flame of life, dissolution, death or final emancipation from matter and re-union with the Supreme Spirit, [MBh.] &c. &c. शून्य (with Buddhists and जैनs) absolute extinction or annihilation (= , [L.] ) of individual existence or of all desires and passions, [MWB. 137-139 &c.] perfect calm or repose or happiness, highest bliss or beatitude, [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c. N. of an उपनिषद् instructing in sciences, [L.] bathing of an elephant, [L.] the post to which an elephant is tied, [Gal.] निर्-वापण offering oblations (for 1. ?), [L.]
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