Abhishasti, Abhiśasti, Abhishashti: 10 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Abhiśasti can be transliterated into English as Abhisasti or Abhishasti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Abhishasti in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Abhiśasti (अभिशस्ति).—f.

1) A curse.

2) Effect of an imprecation, misfortune, evil, calamity.

3) Censure, calumny, abuse, defamation, charge, insult.

4) Asking, begging.

5) What curses or injures; the cause or source of injury.

Derivable forms: abhiśastiḥ (अभिशस्तिः).

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

Abhiśasti (अभिशस्ति).—f.

(-stiḥ) 1. Calumny, scandal, defamation. 2. Asking, begging. E. abhi before śaṃsa to praise or ask, and ktin aff.

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

Abhiśasti (अभिशस्ति).—i. e. abhi-śaṃs + ti, f. Defamation, calumny.

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

Abhiśasti (अभिशस्ति).—[feminine] imprecation, curse; censure, blame; misfortune, harm; concr. a slanderer, enemy.

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

1) Abhiśasti (अभिशस्ति):—[=abhi-śasti] [from abhi-śaṃs] f. curse, imprecation, damnation, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda]

2) [v.s. ...] effect of imprecation, misfortune, evil, [Ṛg-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā]

3) [v.s. ...] one who curses or injures, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda]

4) [v.s. ...] blame, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]

5) [v.s. ...] ‘accusation’ (ifc.; See mithyābhiśasti)

6) [v.s. ...] calumny, defamation, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

7) [v.s. ...] asking, begging, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Abhiśasti (अभिशस्ति):—[tatpurusha compound] f.

(-stiḥ) I.

1) Abuse, calumny, scandal, defamation (Med., Hemach., Viśvapr., Bhūripr., Ajayap., Śabdaratnāv., &c. = apavāda or lokāpavāda); e. g. Ṛgv.: uruṣyā ṇo abhiśasteḥ soma (Sāyaṇa: abhiśasterabhiśaṃsanādabhiśāparūpānnindanāt); or Vājas., Atharv.: amutra bhūyādadha (v. 1. ºdhi) yadyamasya bṛhaspatebhiśasteramuñcaḥ (Mahīdh.: abhiśasteḥ . abhiśāpādapi lokāpavādādapi); hence personified: (ved.) a slanderer, an enemy; e. g. Ṛgv.: jahī bhikitvo abhiśastimetām (Sāy.: = enamabhiśaṃsakam); or tvaṃ devāṃ~ abhiśasteramuñcaḥ (Sāy.: = abhiśaṃsakācchatroḥ); in the verse of the Ṛgv.: yuvaṃ sindhūṃ~rabhiśasteravadyādagnīṣomāvamuñcataṃ gṛbhītān it is probably more correct to take avadyāt as an apposition to abhiśasteḥ than to consider abhiśasteḥ as a masc. or as an adject. referring to avadyāt i. e. ‘you have liberated the rivers from that crime, the slander’, (but Sāy. from ‘that notorious crime’: abhiśasterabhiśasyamānādabhitaḥ prakaṭitādavadyāttasmātpāpādamuñcatam).

2) Asking, begging; (according to the various Koshas mentioned above; some comm. of the Amarak. however restrict its sense to the ‘religious begging’; thus Rāyam., Ramān., Nīlak., &c.: bhikṣāmātre, Bharatam.: vratabhikṣāyām). E. śaṃs with abhi, kṛt aff. ktin. Ii. Injury, destruction (ved.); e. g. Ṛgv.: nabho na rūpaṃ jarimā mināti purā tasyā abhiśasteradhīhi (Sāy.: abhiśasterhiṃsāhetoḥ); or somyāsaḥ…titikṣante abhiśastiṃ janānām (Sāy.: abhiśastiṃ = hiṃsām; but Mahīdh. takes the word in the latter instance, when it occurs in the corresponding verse of the Vājas., in the sense and etym. of I. 1. viz. = durvacanam); or Vajas.: samidasi sūryastvā purastātpātu kasyāścidabhiśastyai (Mahīdh.: = hiṃsāyāḥ); also personified in this sense: an enemy; when Sāyaṇa however, and probably wrongly, analyzes it as a [bahuvrihi compound] m.; comp. abhiśastipā, abhiśastipāvan and the following. E. śas with abhi, kṛt aff. ktin.

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Abhiṣaṣṭi (अभिषष्टि):—A bad reading in the printed edition of the Śeṣās of Hemach. for abhiśasti ‘begging’; in a similar manner abhiṣasta Hem. nān. 4. 123., which occurs in Mss., is a bad reading for abhiśasta.

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

Abhiśasti (अभिशस्ति):—[abhi-śasti] (stiḥ) 2. f. Calumny, defamation; asking, begging.

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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

[«previous next»] — Abhishasti in Kannada glossary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Abhiśasti (ಅಭಿಶಸ್ತಿ):—[noun] a formal charge made against a person of doing wrong; accusation.

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