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शम m. m. tranquillity, calmness, rest, equanimity, quietude or quietism, absence of passion, abstraction from eternal objects through intense meditation (शमं √ कृ, ‘to calm one's self’, ‘be tranquil’), [Mn.] ; [MBh.] &c. सार्धम् peace, peace with (), [MBh.] Quietism or Tranquillity (personified as a son of धर्म and husband of प्राप्ति), [MBh.] tranquillization, pacification, allayment, alleviation, cessation, extinction, [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c. absence of sexual passion or excitement, impotence, [TāṇḍBr.] alleviation or cure of disease, convalescence, [W.] final happiness, emancipation from all the illusions of existence, [L.] indifference, apathy, [Rājat.] शय the hand (cf. ), [L.] शप imprecation, malediction (w.r. for ), [L.] N. of a king of the नन्दि-वेगs, [MBh.] of a son of अन्धक, [Hariv.] of a son of धर्म-सूत्र, [BhP.] शम mfn. mfn. tame, domestic, [RV. i, 32, 15; 33, 15.]
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