Antevasin, Antevāsin, Ante-vasin: 11 definitions
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Antevāsin.—(LL), a male pupil. Note: antevāsin is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्).—= अन्तवासिन् (antavāsin) q. v. above.
Antevāsin is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ante and vāsin (वासिन्).
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्).—m. (-sī) 1. A pupil. 2. A Chandala, or man of a low caste. mfn. (-sī-sinī-si) Final, ultimate. E. anta in the locative case, near or final; vasa to abide, and ṇini affix: who dwells near his teacher, &c. See antavāsin.
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्).—i. e. anta + i -vas + in, m. A pupil, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 4, 33.
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्).—[masculine] sinī [feminine] pupil (lit. living close by).
1) Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्):—[=ante-vāsin] [from anta] a mfn. dwelling near the boundaries, dwelling close by, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] m. a pupil who dwells near or in the house of his teacher, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] = ante-vasāyin q.v., [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) [=ante-vāsin] b See p. 43, col. 1.
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्):—[tatpurusha compound] 1. m. f. n.
(-sī-sinī-si) Living, or being in, or on, the end or confines. 2. m.
(-sī) 1) A pupil in general (the same as śiṣya), e. g. vaiśampāyanāntevāsin [bases in ṛ when compounded with it as former parts of a [tatpurusha compound], retain in the composition the sign of the genitive, e. g. hoturantevāsin, piturantevāsin].
2) An apprentice, one who is learning a mechanical art (according to Nārada, distinct from the śiṣya who is to him the theological student, and one of the four categories of the karmakara q. v.; compare besides śiṣya, bhṛtaka and adhikarmakṛt).—Both 1. and 2 so called from it being their duty to live near i. e. in the house of the Guru: ‘ācāryasya vasedante kṛtvā kālaṃ suniścitam . ācāryaḥ śikṣayedenaṃ svagṛhe dattabhojanam’.
3) A Chāṇḍāla (q. v.), a man of the lowest tribe (so called because he must live outside of a town; comp. antara I. 1). [In a Prākṛt passage of the Mālatīmādhava antevāsinī occurs in the sense of a female pupil: sāhakassa muṇḍadhāriṇī adhoraghaṇṭaṇāmadheassa antevāsiṇī mahāppahāvā karālakuṇḍalā ṇāma.] E. ante (locat. of anta) and vāsin.
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्):—[ante-vāsin] (sī) 5. m. A pupil.
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्):—(ante + vāsin)
1) adj. am Ende, an der Grenze befindlich (prāntaga) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 158.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 230.] —
2) m. a) (an den Endpunkten der Stadt wohnend) ein Cāṇḍāla [Amarakoṣa 2, 10, 20.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 933.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 157.] [Medinīkoṣa] — b) (in der Nähe sich aufhaltend) Schüler [Amarakoṣa 2, 7, 10.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 79.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 158.] [Medinīkoṣa] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5, 1, 5, 17. 14, 9, 3, 15—20.] [?(= Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad 6, 3, 7—12).Chāndogyopaniṣad 3, 11, 5. TAITT. Upakośā 14. Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 14. Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 14, 3, 19. Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 104. 6, 2, 36. Manu’s Gesetzbuch 4, 33.] antevāsī śilpaśikṣārthī [Mitākṣarā 267, 15.] anantevāsin [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 9, 3, 20.] [?= Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad 6, 3, 12.]
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्):——
1) *Adj. am Ende , an der Grenze sich befindend oder lebend. —
2) m. — a) Schüler. Dazu Nom.abstr. sitva n. [Dhūrtanāṭaka 11.] — b) * = antevasāyin.
Antevāsin (अन्तेवासिन्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Aṃtevāsi.
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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