Abhipranana, Abhiprāṇana: 3 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAbhiprāṇana (अभिप्राणन).—Exhaling (opp. apānanam)
Derivable forms: abhiprāṇanam (अभिप्राणनम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhiprāṇana (अभिप्राणन):—[=abhi-prāṇana] [from abhi-prāṇ] n. exhaling (opposed to apānana, q.v.), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhiprāṇana (अभिप्राणन):—[tatpurusha compound] n.
(-nam) Breathing forth, exhaling (comp. apānana ‘inhaling’); e. g. Śaṅkara in his comm. on the Bṛhadār.-Up.: abhiprāṇanaṃ prathamaṃ kṛtvā paścādapānyāt. E. an with pra and abhi, kṛt aff. lyuṭ.
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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