See Also: Kapila(encyclopedia)

nobleness (iou) and Kapila (sh)


nobleness (iou)



nobleness noun. LME.
[from NOBLE adjective + -NESS.]
The state or quality of being noble, nobility. LME.
b. With possess. adjective (as your nobleness etc.): a title of respect given to a noble. LME-M18.
A noble person or thing; collect. members of nobility. L15-M19.
Display, splendour; an occasion of this. E16-L17.

Kapila (sh)




flourished 550 BC?

Founder of the Samkhya school of Vedic philosophy in India.

Legend says he was a descendant of Manu, the primal human being, and a grandson of the creator god, Brahma. He has also been thought of as an incarnation of Vishnu. In Buddhist sources he was a well-known philosopher whose students built Kapilavastu, the birthplace of Buddha Gautama. He lived as a hermit, and his ascetic regimen was said to have given him an inner store of such intense heat that he was capable of reducing 60,000 men to ashes.