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▪ I. ‖ nada1 Hinduism.|ˈnaːda|
Also naad |nɑːd|.
[Skr. nādá sound.]
Inchoate or elemental sound considered as the source of all sounds and as a source of creation; the ‘inner’ sound of the body.
1913‘A. Avalon’ Tantra of Great Liberation p. xxiii, It is Nāda..when there is a sound in which there is something like a connected or combined disposition of the letters. 1920Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XI. 93/1 The Sāktas base their doctrines on the assumption that through Śiva and Sakti there is a drop, Bindu, formed which develops into a female element Nāda (sound), containing in itself the names of all things to be created. 1926Indian Art & Lett. II. 79 Nāda as inchoate stressing sound is shown in the form of a crescent-moon on His [sc. Siva's] head. 1930S. N. Dasgupta Yoga Philos. ix. 269 This sound in the stage of pure varṇas is called nāda... But each varṇa vanishes as it is generated, as the sense of hearing has no power to hold them together. 1940H. E. Kennedy tr. Marquès-Rivière's Tantrik Yoga i. 20 Then there is Laya Yoga, based upon the contemplation of the inward parts (nâda), and produced by closing the ears. 1943D. Gascoyne Poems 1937–1942 50 The incoherent Nada of the seer. 1960Swāmī Prajñānananda Hist. Dev. Indian Music ii. 25 The nāda or causal sound is the basis or ground of music, and upon this primal ground all the phenomena of Indian music are built. 1960Koestler Lotus & Robot i. ii. 99 The last stages before samadhi: the appearance of an ‘inner light’, and of various ‘inner sounds’ or nadas. 1968Indian Mus. Jrnl. V. 8 Boundless is the ocean of Nāda. 1972P. Holroyde Indian Music 274 Naad or Nada, literally ‘resonant sound’, but like most Sanskrit words its overtones are more than the literal and precise English. It is much more complex, implying ‘vital power’.
▪ II. ‖ nada2|ˈnada, ˈnaða|
[Sp., = nothing, f. L. (res) nata thing born; small, insignificant thing.]
Nothing; nothingness, non-existence; a state or condition as of non-existence.
1933E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 23 It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too... He knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 521 Vurry nothing, O potators... It amounts to nada in pounds or pence. 1947Horizon XV. 160 The sleepless man—the man obsessed by death, by the meaninglessness of the world, by nothingness, by nada—is one of the recurring symbols in the works of Hemingway. 1962Spectator 25 May 685/1 This sense of the endless nada lying beyond the phenomenological world. 1966E. Figes Equinox 145 A mess, or less than a mess: nothing, nichts, nada, niente, rien. 1974Punch 25 Sept. 493/2 Hudson: Will there be anything else, old one? Mr. Bellamy: Nada, Hudson. Nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. |