Abhavya, Abhāvya: 10 definitions

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India history and geography

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Ābhāvya.—(EI 11, 16), income or proceeds; cf. rāja-rāja- puruṣ ādibhiḥ svaṃ svam = ābhāvyaṃ parihartavyam; see also rāja- bhāvya, etc. Cf. ‘the income (ābhāvya) derived from the loads on bullocks going on their way or coming to Nāḍlāi’ (Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, p. 36). Note: ābhāvya 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

Abhavya (अभव्य).—a.

1) Not to be, not predestined;

2) Improper.

3) unfortunate; उपगतमवधीरयन्त्यभव्याः (upagatamavadhīrayantyabhavyāḥ) Kirātārjunīya 1. 51.

4) uncivil, rude; अभव्यो भव्यरूपेण (abhavyo bhavyarūpeṇa) Rām.4.17.28.

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Abhāvya (अभाव्य).—a. What is not destined to be or take place; यदभावि न तद्भावि (yadabhāvi na tadbhāvi) H.1.

See also (synonyms): abhāvin.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Abhavya (अभव्य).—(a-bhavya), adj. (= Pali abhabba; neg. of bhavya; not in this sense Sanskrit), unable, with inf. or dat., sometimes absolute: (a) inf., Lalitavistara 19.19; 246.15 (sākṣātkartum; see below), 18; 247.8, 9; Mahāvastu i.316.17 (ājānituṃ); iii.263.12; 318.10; Bodhisattvabhūmi 291.1; (b) dat., Mahāvastu i.292.9 abhavya so tasya nigūhanāya (so Senart em., mss. taṃ nigūhanāpi), he is unable to conceal that (fault); ii.121.6, same passage as Lalitavistara 246.15, but here datives: abhavyā eva te…jñānāye darśanāye saṃbodhāye (same passage in Majjhimanikāya (Pali) i.241.8 abhabbā va te ñāṇāya etc.); Bodhisattvabhūmi 159.5; Udānavarga vi.7 (parihā- ṇāya, ms. °nāya, incapable of loss); haritatvāya Mahāvyutpatti 9135 (so with v.l. and Mironov, text haritvāya); Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 23b.5; (c) absolute, incapable, impotent, Lalitavistara 407.22 (delete following daṇḍa); Śiks 209.12; (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 5.26.

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

Abhavya (अभव्य).—mfn.

(-vyaḥ-vyā-vyaṃ) 1. Not to be, not predestined. 2. Improper, what ought not to be. E. a neg. bhavya what is to be, also abhavanīya, &c.

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

Abhavya (अभव्य).—[adjective] bad, vicious, ugly, miserable (lit. what ought not to be).

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

1) Abhavya (अभव्य):—[=a-bhavya] [from a-bhava] mfn. not to be, not predestined

2) [v.s. ...] what ought not to be, improper.

3) [v.s. ...] ugly, [Rāmāyaṇa]

4) [v.s. ...] wicked, [Mahābhārata]

5) [v.s. ...] unhappy, miserable, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

6) Abhāvya (अभाव्य):—[=a-bhāvya] [from a-bhava] mfn. idem

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

Abhavya (अभव्य):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.

(-vyaḥ-vyā-vyam) 1) What is not to be, predestined not to be.

2) Not destined to; (in this sense with the dative, in the Buddh. Dhammapada: abhabbo parihāṇāyā).

3) Inauspicious, unhappy; e. g. in Pushpadanta's (Śiva-) Mahimastotra: abhavyānāmasminvaradaramaṇīyāmaramaṇīṃ vihantuṃ vyākrośīṃ vidadhata ihaike jaḍadhiyaḥ.

4) Fraudulent, deceitful; e. g. in the Vanaparvan of the Mahābh.: etasminnantare rakṣo rāvaṇaḥ pratyadṛśyata . abhavyo bhavyarūpeṇa bhasmacchanna ivānalaḥ (Rāvaṇa became visible, deceitful on account of his future appearance, like fire which is deceitful when covered with ashes; ‘ignes suppositi cineri doloso’). E. a neg. and bhavya.

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Abhāvya (अभाव्य):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.

(-vyaḥ-vyā-vyam) What is not to be, not destined to be; e. g. in Bhartṛhari: nābhāvyaṃ bhavatīha karmavaśato bhāvyasya nāśaḥ kutaḥ. Comp. the preceding. E. a neg. and bhāvya.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Abhavya (अभव्य) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Abhaviya, Abhanavva, Ābhavva, Āhavva.

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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.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Abhavya (ಅಭವ್ಯ):—[adjective] that is not great; that is not sublime.

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Abhavya (ಅಭವ್ಯ):—

1) [noun] (Jain.) a soul which does not deserve or is not eligible for, the final emancipation; a soul which is engrossed in the non-spiritual activities only.

2) [noun] (rhet.) absence of practicality, one of the eighteen faults in a literary work.

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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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