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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Abhisārasthāna (अभिसारस्थान).—a place fit for making appointments; see under अभिसारिका (abhisārikā) below.

Derivable forms: abhisārasthānam (अभिसारस्थानम्).

Abhisārasthāna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms abhisāra and sthāna (स्थान).

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

Abhisārasthāna (अभिसारस्थान):—[=abhi-sāra-sthāna] [from abhi-sāra > abhi-sṛ] n. a place of rendezvous (of lovers), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa]

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

Abhisārasthāna (अभिसारस्थान):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-nam) A locality adapted for as-signations. [The Sāhityadarpaṇa recommends the following eight places for lovers to meet: a field, a garden, templeruins, the house of a procuress, a forest, a place of pilgrimage, a cemetery, the bank of rivers (&c.); but thinks that occasionally any dark place will do: kṣetraṃ vāṭī bhagnadevālayo dūtīgṛhaṃ vanam . mālayaṃ ca śmaśānaṃ ca nadyādīnāṃ taṭī tathā . evaṃ kṛtābhisārāṇāṃ puṃścalīnāṃ vinodane . sthānānyaṣṭau tathā dhvāntacchanneṣu kvacidāśrayaḥ. The rhetorico-musical work Saṅgītadāmodara improves the enumeration in mentioning: ‘a bower, a grove, a park, a ditch (without water), a place where water is distributed, an attic, a hemp-field, the bank of a river, a thorny spot, a building ground, a house in the neighbourhood of a town, the ruins of a college and so on’, these having been the places where the cowherdesses made their appointments with Kṛṣṇa: nikubjakānanodyānanirambuparikhāprapāḥ . aṭṭālikāśaṇakṣetradhunīrodhāḥ (Ms. Paris. B. 155; Ms. E. I. H. 1486: aṭṭālikā gavākṣaśca—‘a window’—dhunīrodhaḥ) sakaṇṭakāḥ . vāṭīparisarāgārapaścādbhagnamaṭhādayaḥ . ete pradeśāḥ saṃketasthānāni muravidviṣaḥ . yatrā- (Ms. E. I. H. atrā-) bhisāraṃ kurvanti devyā vallavavallabhāḥ. Compare e. g. the third story of the Vetalapañchaviṃśati.—Also called saṃketasthāna.] Comp. also the following article. E. abhisāra and sthāna.

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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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Partial matches: Sthana, Abhisara.

Full-text: Abhisarika.

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