Antarvat, Antar-vat: 3 definitions
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Antarvat means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAntarvat (अन्तर्वत्).—a. being in the interior; having something in the interior.
Antarvat is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms antar and vat (वत्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAntarvat (अन्तर्वत्):—[=antar-vat] (antar-) mf(vatī [Ṛg-veda] or vatnī)n. pregnant, [Ṛg-veda etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAntarvat (अन्तर्वत्):—1. m. f. n. (-vān-vatī-vat)
1) Occupying the in-terior, e. g. of a hall, a house, ghaṭaḥ ‘a jar in the interior of a hall’; antarvatī śālā ‘a hall in the interior of another hall’.
2) Probably the same as ātmavat (comp. the meaning of antar Iv. 2.), selfpossessed, composed, as in the vaidik instance pumānantarvāntsthaviraḥ payasvānvasoḥ kabandhamṛṣabho bibharti; (it has been proposed somewhere to translate antarvat in this instance ‘pregnant’). 2. f.
(-tnī; in the Vedas also -vatī) A pregnant woman. [As the instance antarvatī śālā has been taken from the Kāśikā on Pāṇ. Iv. 1. 32, it is necessary to observe that Bhaṭṭojidīkṣsta in the Prauḍhamanor. rejects this formation together with the counter-instance pativatī in the same rule: ‘yattu prācāntarvatī pativatīti pratyudāhṛtaṃ tadayuktam’.] E. antar, taddh. aff. matup and āgama nuk.
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Starts with: Antarvati, Antarvatni.
Ends with: Dhanantarvat.
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