साधन

Borrowed from Sanskrit साधन (sādhana).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /sɑː.d̪ʱən/,

साधन • (sādhan) m

1. means

   उत्पादन के साधन ― utpādan ke sādhan ― means of production

2. medium; method
3. resources

• संसाधन (sansādhan)

From the root साध् (sādh) +‎ -अन (-ana).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɑ́ː.dʱɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɑː.d̪ʱɐ.n̪ɐ/

साधन • (sā́dhana) stem

1. leading straight to a goal, guiding well, furthering
2. effective, efficient, productive of (compound)
3. procuring
4. conjuring up (a spirit)
5. denoting, designating, expressive of (compound)

साधन • (sā́dhana) stem, n

1. the act of mastering, overpowering, subduing
2. subduing by charms, conjuring up, summoning (spirits etc.)
3. subduing a disease, healing, cure
4. enforcing payment or recovery (of a debt)
5. bringing about, carrying out, accomplishment, fulfilment, completion, perfection
6. establishment of a truth, proof, argument, demonstration
7. reason or premiss (in a syllogism, leading to a conclusion)
8. any means of effecting or accomplishing, any agent or instrument or implement or utensil or apparatus, an expedient, requisite for (genitive or compound)
9. a means of summoning or conjuring up a spirit (or deity)
10. means or materials of warfare, military forces army or portion of an army (sg and pl)
11. conflict, battle
12. means of correcting or punishing (as "a stick", "rod" etc.)
13. means of enjoyment, goods, commodities etc.
14. efficient cause or source (in general)
15. organ of generation (male or female)
16. (grammar) the sense of the instrumental or agent (as expressed by the case of a noun, as opposed to the action itself)
17. preparing, making ready, preparation (of food, poison etc.)
18. obtaining, procuring, gain, acquisition
19. finding out by calculation, computation
20. fruit, result
21. the conjugational affix or suffix which is placed between the root and terminations (= वीहरण (vīharaṇa))
22. in Lexicographers: matter, material, substance, ingredient, drug, medicine; good works, penance, self-mortification, attainment of beatitude; conciliation, propitiation, worship; killing, destroying; killing metals, depriving them by oxidation etc. of their metallic properties (especially said of mercury); burning on a funeral pile, obsequies; setting out, proceeding, going; going quickly; going after, following

• साधना (sādhanā)

• Pali: sādhana
• Prakrit: 𑀲𑀸𑀳𑀡 (sāhaṇa)
  • Assamese: সাহন (xahon)
• Marathi: साधन (sādhan)
• → Kannada: ಸಾಧನ (sādhana)
• → Tamil: சாதனம் (cātaṉam)
• → Telugu: సాధనము (sādhanamu)

साधन • (sā́dhana) stem, m

1. name of the author of RV. x, 157 (having the patronymics भौवन (bhauvana))
2. propitiation, worship, adoration

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “sādhana”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Monier Williams (1899) “साधन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1201/1.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sādhana”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press