Prasvinna: 5 definitions
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Prasvinna means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on AgriculturePrasvinna (प्रस्विन्न) refers to “perspiring (bodies)”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, “Merely upon the Garuḍa’s uttering this Vajra Beak dhāraṇī, eighty times ten million million hundred thousand great Nāga kings fell with their faces downwards, with perspiring (prasvinna) bodies, blazing bodies, being unconscious, rolling on the ground [and said,] ‘greatly ferocious great dhāraṇī-mantrapadas had been uttered’ ...[”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPrasvinna (प्रस्विन्न).—p. p. Sweated, perspired.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrasvinna (प्रस्विन्न).—mfn.
(-nnaḥ-nnā-nnaṃ) 1. Per spiring, covered with perspiration. 2. Heated, sweated. E. pra before, svid to sweat, kta aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrasvinna (प्रस्विन्न):—[=pra-svinna] [from pra-svid] mfn. covered with perspiration, sweated, perspired, [Rāmāyaṇa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrasvinna (प्रस्विन्न):—[pra-svinna] (nnaḥ-nnā-nnaṃ) p. Perspiring.
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.
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Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)
Verse 2.3.72 < [Part 3 - Involuntary Ecstatic Expressions (sattvika-bhāva)]
Śrī Śrī Rādhikā Aṣṭottara-Śata-Nāma-Stotraṃ (by Śrīla Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmi)