Samharamudra, Saṃhāramudrā, Samhara-mudra: 2 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySaṃhāramudrā (संहारमुद्रा).—Name of a particular posture in the Tantra worship; it is thus defined:-अधोमुखे वामहस्ते ऊर्ध्वास्यं दक्षहस्तकम् । क्षिप्ताङ्गुलीरङ्गुलीभिः संगृह्य परिवर्तयेत् (adhomukhe vāmahaste ūrdhvāsyaṃ dakṣahastakam | kṣiptāṅgulīraṅgulībhiḥ saṃgṛhya parivartayet) ||
Saṃhāramudrā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms saṃhāra and mudrā (मुद्रा).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySaṃhāramudrā (संहारमुद्रा):—[=saṃ-hāra-mudrā] [from saṃ-hāra > saṃ-hṛ] f. Name of a [particular] posture in the Tantra worship (= visarjana-mudrā), [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]
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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