Antevasayin, Antevasāyin, Ante-vasayin: 4 definitions
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Antevasāyin (अन्तेवसायिन्).—a Chāṇḍāla (antyaja) अशौचमनृतं स्तेयं नास्तिक्यं शुल्कविग्रहः । कामः क्रोधश्च तर्षश्च स्वभावोऽन्तेवसायिनाम् (aśaucamanṛtaṃ steyaṃ nāstikyaṃ śulkavigrahaḥ | kāmaḥ krodhaśca tarṣaśca svabhāvo'ntevasāyinām) Bhāgavata 11. 17.2;7.11.3.
Antevasāyin is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ante and vasāyin (वसायिन्). See also (synonyms): antevasāyī.
Antevasāyin (अन्तेवसायिन्):—[=ante-vasāyin] [from anta] m. a man living at the end of a town or village, a man belonging to the lowest caste, [Mahābhārata etc.]
Antevasāyin (अन्तेवसायिन्):—m. ein am Ende der Stadt oder des Dorfes Wohnender, ein Mann aus niedrigster Kaste [Mahābhārata 13, 1552.] niṣādī cāpi cāṇḍālātputramante vasāyinam . śmaśānagocaraṃ sūte [2590.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 11, 30.] — Vgl. antāvasāyin, antevāsin, antyāvasāyin .
Antevasāyin (अन्तेवसायिन्):—m. ein am Ende der Stadt oder des Dorfes Wohnender , ein Mann aus niedrigstem Stande.
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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