Aksharalavana, Akṣāralavaṇa, Akshara-lavana: 9 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Akṣāralavaṇa can be transliterated into English as Aksaralavana or Aksharalavana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Marathi-English dictionary
akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण).—m S Such food as may be eaten during a season of mourning, religious observance &c.: as cow's milk, ghee, rice &c.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण).—(-rā°) [kṣāreṇa ūṣaramṛttikayā nirvṛttaṃ-aṇ kṣāraṃ kṛtrimaṃ lavaṇaṃ; na. ta.] natural salt; मुन्यन्नानि पयः सोमो मांसं यच्चानुपस्कृतम् । अक्षारलवणं चैव प्रकृत्या हविरुच्यते (munyannāni payaḥ somo māṃsaṃ yaccānupaskṛtam | akṣāralavaṇaṃ caiva prakṛtyā havirucyate) || Manusmṛti 3.257 (akṛtrimalavaṇaṃ saindhavādi); °लवणान्नाः- स्युः (lavaṇānnāḥ- syuḥ) 5.73; चतुर्थकालमश्नीयादक्षारलवणं मितम् (caturthakālamaśnīyādakṣāralavaṇaṃ mitam)11.19; sometimes used for food that may be eaten at times unfit for the performance of religious duties; a class of objects such as cow's milk, ghee, rice, &c.
Derivable forms: akṣāralavaṇam (अक्षारलवणम्).
Akṣāralavaṇa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms akṣāra and lavaṇa (लवण).
Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण).—n.
(-ṇaṃ) Such food as may be eaten during a season of mourning, religious observance, &c. as cow’s milk, ghee, rice, kidney-beans, barley, sesamum, and sea or river salt. E. a neg kṣāra alkali, lavaṇa salt.
Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण).—[neuter] anything not pungent or salted; akṣāralavaṇānna & akṣāralavaṇāśin eating such food.
1) Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण):—[=a-kṣāra-lavaṇa] [from a-kṣāra] n. not factitious (id est. natural) salt
2) [v.s. ...] mfn. not composed of artificial salt, ([Manvarthamuktāvalī, kullūka bhaṭṭa’s Commentary on manu-smṛti] on), [Manu-smṛti iii, 257; v, 73]
3) [v.s. ...] or, according to, [Goldst.] and, [Boehtlingk’s Sanskrit-Woerterbuch in kuerzerer fassung], better ‘(food) not containing acrid substances nor salt’; therefore also akṣārālavaṇa in the same sense cf. kṣāra-lavaṇa.
Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण):—n.
(-ṇam) I. [tatpurusha compound] Natural salt, as river salt &c., which has not been obtained artificially. See kṣāra and lavaṇa. E. akṣāra (which is explained as a neg. and kṣāra artificial(?) and lavaṇa, or better: a neg. and kṣāralavaṇa (Dvandva): neither kṣāra nor lavaṇa. Ii. [bahuvrihi compound] Such food as may be eaten during a season considered impure or improper for the performance of religious duties, as a season of mourning &c. (See aśauca.) It is said to consist of cows milk, ghee, rice, kidney-beans, barley, sesamum, and sea or river salt. The word occurs also written akṣārālavaṇa. E. a priv. and kṣāralavaṇa (Dvandva), sc. anna.
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Akṣārālavaṇa (अक्षारालवण):—Dvandva. n.
(-ṇam) See the preceding, under Ii. E. akṣāra and alavaṇa.
Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण):—[a-kṣāra-lavaṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. A particular kind of food to be eaten at a time of mourning, or penance.
Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण):—(3. a + kṣāralavaṇa [kṣāra + lavaṇa]) n. Nicht-Gesalzenes: munyannāni payaḥ somo māṃsaṃ yaccānupaskṛtam . akṣāralavaṇaṃ caiva prakṛtyā havirucyate .. (Kull. akṣāralavaṇamakṛtrimalavaṇaṃ saindhavādi) [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 257.] akṣāralavaṇānnāḥ syuḥ (Kull. kṣāralavaṇaṃ kṛtrimalavaṇaṃ tadrahitamannamaśnīyuḥ) [5, 73.] caturthakālamaśnīyādakṣāralavaṇaṃ mitam (Kull. kṛtrimalavaṇavarjitaṃ haviṣyamannam) [11, 109.] Eine andere Erklärung finden wir im [Śabdakalpadruma] : gokṣīraṃ goghṛtaṃ caiva dhānyaṃ mudgāstilā yavāḥ . sāmudraṃ saindhavaṃ caiva akṣāralavaṇaṃ smṛtam .. iti hāralatādhṛtasmṛtiḥ . — Vgl. den folgenden Artikel.
Akṣāralavaṇa (अक्षारलवण):—n. Nicht-Gesalzenes.
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: Akshara, Lavana.
Starts with: Aksharalavanashin.
Full-text: Aksharalavanashin, Akshara, Kshara.
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