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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Apohana.—(SITI), waste or uncultivated; cf. Tamil agovana, waste land. Note: apohana is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Apohana (अपोहन).—

1) Removal &c. = अपाह (apāha) above.

2) Reasoning faculty; मत्तः स्मृतिर्ज्ञानमपोहनं च (mattaḥ smṛtirjñānamapohanaṃ ca) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 15.15 (Mr Telang translates a° by removal; Lok. Tilak translates as nāśa.) ततो धर्मस्ततो ज्ञानं यावत्स्मृतिरपोहनम् (tato dharmastato jñānaṃ yāvatsmṛtirapohanam) Bhāgavata 11.13.6.

Derivable forms: apohanam (अपोहनम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apohana (अपोहन).—n.

(-naṃ) Reasoning, exercise of reason. E. apa, and ūha to reason, lyuṭ aff.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apohana (अपोहन).—i. e. apa-vah + ana, n. Removal, [Bhagavadgītā, (ed. Schlegel.)] 15, 15 (of recollection and knowledge.)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apohana (अपोहन):—[from apoh] n. idem

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apohana (अपोहन):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-nam) Removing, taking off, destroying; e. g. in the Bhagavadgītā (15. 15.) Viṣṇu says: mattaḥ smṛtirjñānamapohanaṃ ca ‘from me comes recollection and knowledge (scil. of virtuous acts) and the removal (i. e. the cessation of recollection and of knowledge of sinful acts)’. Śaṅkara: matta ātmanaḥ sarvaprāṇināṃ smṛtirjñānaṃ tadapohanaṃ ca . yeṣāṃ puṇyakarmaṇāṃ puṇyakarmānurodhena jñānasmṛtī bhavataḥ . tathā pāpakarmaṇāṃ pāpakarmānurodhena smṛtijñānayorapohanamapagamanaṃ ca; Sadānanda: matta ātmana evātaḥ prāṇijātasya ca smṛtiḥ . etajjanmani pūrvānubhūtārthaviṣayā ca sā . janmāntarānubhūtārthaviṣayāpyasti yoginām . viṣayendriyasaṃyogajanyaṃ jñānaṃ tathātmanaḥ . dikkālaviprakṛṣṭaikaviṣayaṃ cāpi yoginām . matta eva tayoḥ kāmakrodhādyākulacetasām . pāpakarmānurodhena vināśaḥ smṛtibodhayoḥ ..; Arjunamiśra: matta eva hetoḥ prāṇijātasya pūrvānubhūtārthaviṣayā smṛtirbhavati . jñānaṃ ca viṣayendriyasaṃprayogajaṃ bhavati . apohanaṃ ca tayoḥ pramoṣo bhavati ..; similarly Madhusūdhana: …apohanaṃ ca smṛtijñānayorapāpaśca matta eva bhavati.] E. ūh with apa, kṛt aff. lyuṭ.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apohana (अपोहन):—[apo+hana] (naṃ) 1. n. Reasoning.

[Sanskrit to German]

Apohana in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Apōhana (ಅಪೋಹನ):—[noun] = ಅಪೋಹ [apoha].

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Ends with: Uhapohana.

Full-text: Vyapohanastotra, Apoha.

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