Antikashraya, Antikāśraya, Antika-ashraya: 7 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Antikāśraya can be transliterated into English as Antikasraya or Antikashraya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Antikāśraya (अन्तिकाश्रय).—resorting to what is near, contiguous support (that given by a tree to a creeper).

Derivable forms: antikāśrayaḥ (अन्तिकाश्रयः).

Antikāśraya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms antika and āśraya (आश्रय).

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

Antikāśraya (अन्तिकाश्रय).—m.

(-yaḥ) Contiguous support, (as that given by a tree to a creeper, &c.) E. antika, and āśraya support.

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

Antikāśraya (अन्तिकाश्रय):—[from antika > anti] m. contiguous support (as that given by a tree to a creeper), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Antikāśraya (अन्तिकाश्रय):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-yaḥ) 1) A contiguous support, as that given by a tree to a creeper &c.

2) The house of a neighbour (according to Hemachandra’s Abhidh. 4. 67. (= v. 1001), where the two words upaghna and antikāśraya are explained by Vallabhagaṇi: pāḍosīgharanāmnī dve; but the quotation added by this comm. from Raghuvaṃśa 14. 1. would rather refer to the first meaning than qualify a house, as seems required by the context in which these words occur in Hemachandra). E. antika and āśraya.

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

Antikāśraya (अन्तिकाश्रय):—[antikā+śraya] (yaḥ) 1. m. Contiguous support or dependence.

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