यान mfn. amfn. leading, conducting (said of a road; ‘to’
gen. or
adv. in
°त्रा॑),
[RV.] यान f. n. (
ifc. f(आ). ) a journey, travel
प्रति going, moving, riding, marching &c. to (
loc. or
comp. ) or upon (
instr. or
comp. ) or against (
acc. with ),
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
a vehicle of any kind, carriage, waggon, vessel, ship, litter, palanquin,
[RV.] &c. &c.
श्रावक-यान (with
Buddhists) the vehicle or method of arriving at knowledge, the means of release from repeated births (there are either 3 systems, the , the
प्रत्येक-बुद्ध-य्° or
प्रत्येक-य्°, and the
महा-य्°; or more generally only 2, the
महा-यान or ‘Great method’ and the
हिन-य्° or ‘Lesser method’; sometimes there is only ‘One Vehicle’, the
एक-यान, or ‘one way to beatitude’),
[SaddhP.] ;
[Dharmas. 2] (
cf. [MWB. 159 &c.] )
यान b &c. See
p. 849, col. 3.