Abhyavaharana, Abhyavaharaṇa: 8 definitions

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Abhyavaharaṇa (अभ्यवहरण).—

1) Throwing away or down.

2) Eating, taking food; throwing down the throat (kaṣṭhādadhonayanam Mitā.)

Derivable forms: abhyavaharaṇam (अभ्यवहरणम्).

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

Abhyavaharaṇa (अभ्यवहरण).—n.

(-ṇaṃ) Eating. E. abhi and ava before hṛ to make, lyuṭ aff.

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

Abhyavaharaṇa (अभ्यवहरण).—[neuter] throwing down or away; also = seq.

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

1) Abhyavaharaṇa (अभ्यवहरण):—[=abhy-avaharaṇa] [from abhyava-hṛ] n. throwing away or down, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra]

2) [v.s. ...] taking food, eating, [Viṣṇu-smṛti, viṣṇu-sūtra, vaiṣṇava-dharma-śāstra] [commentator or commentary] on [Yājñavalkya]

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

Abhyavaharaṇa (अभ्यवहरण):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-ṇam) 1) Throwing down or away (as ashes into the water; in this sense probably restricted to the vaidik liter.); e. g. Śatapath.: atha yadvanīvāhanaṃ ca bhasmanaścābhyavaharaṇaṃ tau darśapūrṇamāsau (Sāy.: bhasmaº = apsūkhyabhasmāvapanam); or Kātyāy. Śr. S.: śvobhyavaharaṇādi prāyaścittyantaṃ &c. (Yājnik. = Sāy.).

2) (Literally: taking down, scil. the throat i. e.) Taking food, eating or drinking; comp. the following; e. g. Mitākṣ. (on Manu 11. 92.): tattālumātrasaṃyoge surāyā abuddhipūrve draṣṭavyam . nanu ca dravaddravyasyābhyavaharaṇaṃ pānamityucyate . abhyavaharaṇaṃ ca kaṇṭhādadhonayanam. E. hṛ with ava and abhi, kṛt aff. lyuṭ.

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Abhyavaharana in German

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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»] — Abhyavaharana in Kannada glossary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Abhyavaharaṇa (ಅಭ್ಯವಹರಣ):—

1) [noun] = ಅಭ್ಯವಹಾರ - [abhyavahara -]1, 2, & 3.

2) [noun] the act of throwing out; a flinging away.

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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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