Antahsattva, Antaḥsattva, Antar-sattva: 7 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Antaḥsattva (अन्तःसत्त्व).—a. having inward strength &c. (°ttvā)

1) a pregnant woman.

2) the marking nut.

Antaḥsattva is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms antar and sattva (सत्त्व).

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

Antaḥsattvā (अन्तःसत्त्वा).—f.

(-ttvā) 1. A pregnant woman. 2. Marking not, (Semecarpus anacardium.) E. antar inner, and sattvā having life or being.

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

1) Antaḥsattva (अन्तःसत्त्व):—[=antaḥ-sattva] [from antaḥ] n. inner nature, [Śārṅgadhara-paddhati]

2) Antaḥsattvā (अन्तःसत्त्वा):—[=antaḥ-sattvā] [from antaḥ] f. a pregnant woman

3) [v.s. ...] the marking nut (Semecarpus Anacardium).

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

Antaḥsattvā (अन्तःसत्त्वा):—[bahuvrihi compound] f.

(-ttvā) 1) A pregnant woman; compare sasatvā.

2) A name of the marking nut or Malacca bean (Semecarpus anacardium) (‘the acrid juice contained in the cells between the laminæ of the shell of this nut, according to Ainslie, is considered as a valuable medicine by the Hindus in scrophulous, venereal and leprous affections’). E. antar and sattva ‘lit. having a being or essence inside’.

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

Antaḥsattvā (अन्तःसत्त्वा):—(ttvā) 1. f. A pregnant woman; a marking nut.

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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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