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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Adhiruh (अधिरुह्).—1 P.

1) To ascend, mount (a throne, hill &c.); go up to, find access to, sit in or on (acc.); पादाहतं यदुत्थाय मूर्धानमधिरोहति (pādāhataṃ yadutthāya mūrdhānamadhirohati) Śiśupālavadha 2.46; पुराधिरूढः शयनं महाधनं (purādhirūḍhaḥ śayanaṃ mahādhanaṃ) Kirātārjunīya 1.38. lying on; तुरगाधिरूढं (turagādhirūḍhaṃ) R.7.37 riding a horse; विमानरत्नाधिरूढः (vimānaratnādhirūḍhaḥ) 12.14; बन्धुजनाधिरूढैर्गजानां वृन्दैः (bandhujanādhirūḍhairgajānāṃ vṛndaiḥ) Kumārasambhava 7.52 mounted or seated on; योगाधिरूढाः (yogādhirūḍhāḥ) R.13.52; engaged or lost in contemplation; so Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1; सद्यः परस्पर- तुलामधिरोहतां द्वे (sadyaḥ paraspara- tulāmadhirohatāṃ dve) R.5.68 bear or acquire; प्रतिज्ञाम्° (pratijñām°) enter on; कीर्तिर्द्यामधिरोहति (kīrtirdyāmadhirohati) Śiśupālavadha 2.52; सर्वमनोरथानामग्रमिवाधिरूढा (sarvamanorathānāmagramivādhirūḍhā) K.158 mounted on the summit or pinnacle; त्वां धूरियं योग्यतयाधिरूढा (tvāṃ dhūriyaṃ yogyatayādhirūḍhā) Kirātārjunīya 3.5 this responsibility lies on your shoulders.

2) To string; अधिरोहति गाण्डीवं महेषौ (adhirohati gāṇḍīvaṃ maheṣau) Kirātārjunīya 13. 16.

3) (Intran.) To rise or grow over or above. -Caus. [रोह (roha)-(pa) यति (yati)]

1) To raise, place, seat, cause to mount or ascend; ताः स्वमङ्कमधिरोप्य (tāḥ svamaṅkamadhiropya) R.19.44 having placed or seated; जनः समेनैव पथाधिरोहति (janaḥ samenaiva pathādhirohati) Śiśupālavadha 12.46.

2) To restore, give back; पुराणशोभामधिरोपितायां (purāṇaśobhāmadhiropitāyāṃ) (vasatau) R. 16.42 restored to its former grandeur.

3) To string (as a bow); कार्मुकं च बलिनाधिरोपितम् (kārmukaṃ ca balinādhiropitam) R.11.81.

4) To give, confer &c.; उदारक इति प्रीतलोकाधिरोपिता- परश्लाध्यनामनि (udāraka iti prītalokādhiropitā- paraślādhyanāmani) Daśakumāracarita 5.

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Adhiruh (अधिरुह्).—a. (At the end of comp.) Growing on; धरणिरुहाधिरुहो लतायाः (dharaṇiruhādhiruho latāyāḥ) Śiśupālavadha 7.46.

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

Adhiruh (अधिरुह्).—ascend, mount ([accusative], [rarely] [locative]), [with] tulām be a match for ([instrumental]); rise into, get at, obtain paṃrā koṭim the highest degree). [Causative] raise above, place or fix upon ([locative] or [accusative]); put in, appoint to ([locative]), intrust, commit to ([locative]), bend (a bow).

Adhiruh is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms adhi and ruh (रुह्).

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

1) Adhiruh (अधिरुह्):—[=adhi-√ruh] a [class] 1. [Parasmaipada] or [poetry or poetic] [Ātmanepada] to rise above, ascend, mount:—[Causal] -ropayati, to raise, place above.

2) [v.s. ...] b (ifc.) mounting or riding on, ibidem

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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: Ruh, Adhi.

Ends with: Anvadhiruh, Samadhiruh, Upadhiruh.

Full-text: Adhirohana, Adhiroha, Adhiropana, Tula, Anvadhiruh, Adhiropita, Adhirudha, Adhirohin, Adhirudhi, Adhirudhaka, Adhirudhasamadhiyoga, Adhirohini, Adhirodhavya, Adhirohani, Samadhiruh.

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