Sanskritdictionary.org — "abhimana"

Author: unauthored (crowd-compiled Sanskrit dictionary site drawing on classical text citations rather than a named traditional lexicon)
Publication: sanskritdictionary.org
Date: undated (live page; accessed 2026-09-06)
URL: https://www.sanskritdictionary.org/abhimana
Type: tertiary (a lexicographic aggregator, not a scholarly critical edition); neutral stance
Accessed: 2026-09-06

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Definitions given: "conception," "pride," "false prestige," "desire," "an impression" — for abhimāna (अभिमान).
Sourcing method, an important caveat: rather than citing a standard scholarly Sanskrit lexicon (e.g. Monier-Williams or Apte — see Gaps), this site's entries are drawn from occurrences in classical Vaishnava devotional texts (specifically the Chaitanya Charitamrita and the Srimad Bhagavatam), each definition tagged with a specific verse reference. It functions as a concordance-style usage dictionary rather than a general Sanskrit lexicon.
Consistency check: the definitions given here ("pride," "false prestige," "desire," "conception") match, word for word in three of five terms, the gloss reported by Wikipedia's "Abhimāna" article — which cites this same site as its own source [1] — corroborating that Wikipedia's philosophical/etymological gloss traces cleanly back to this source rather than to independent editorial synthesis.

This project attempted to reach a standard scholarly Sanskrit lexicon directly — Monier-Williams' A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) — via three different online mirrors this session: sanskrit.inria.fr (404/access-control error page), wisdomlib.org (CAPTCHA/bot-verification wall, both direct and via the r.jina.ai proxy), and ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/ (page-image scans with no extractable text, not an OCR'd or transcribed edition). None succeeded — a new standing fence for this project (see NEXT.md). This source is filed as the best available substitute, not a replacement for a direct Monier-Williams reading.
Because this site's definitions are drawn from occurrences in specific religious narrative texts rather than a general corpus, its coverage may not represent the word's full or most common classical range.