The Sanskrit term Kharaviṣāṇa can be transliterated into English as Kharavisana or Kharavishana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Jainism

Jain philosophy

Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra Suri

Kharaviṣāṇa (खरविषाण) refers to the “horn of an ass” (i.e. used as a demonstration of an impossibility), as occurring in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 70, l 15]—‘Kharaviṣāṇa’, a horn of an ass, is another illustration of impossibility, for, no ass has horns This phrase occurs on p 91, l. 18, p 356, l. 17 and in Vol II on p 7, l. 15, p 53, l. 26, p 55, l. 5, p 86, l. 25, p 96, l. 7, p 99, l. 30, p 141, l. 5, p 214, l. 25, and p 215, l. 21.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kharaviṣāṇa (ಖರವಿಷಾಣ):—[noun] a thing that can never be or can never happen (as the horns growing on the head of an ass).

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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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Partial matches: Vishana, Khara.

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