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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anvāsana (अन्वासन).—

1) Service, attendance, waiting upon, worship.

2) Taking a seat after another.

3) Regret, sorrow.

4) A place of industry, manufactory, workshop &c.

5) An oily or cooling enema.

Derivable forms: anvāsanam (अन्वासनम्).

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

Anvāsana (अन्वासन).—n.

(-naṃ) 1. An unctuous or cooling enema. 2. Service. 3. Regret, affliction. 4. A place where work is done, manufactory, a house of industry. E. anu before, ās to sit, and lyuṭ aff.

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

1) Anvāsana (अन्वासन):—[=anv-āsana] [from anv-ās] n. sitting down after (another)

2) [v.s. ...] service

3) [v.s. ...] regret, affliction, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] a place where work is done, manufactory, house of industry, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

5) [v.s. ...] an unctuous or cooling enema, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Anvāsana (अन्वासन):—[tatpurusha compound] I. n.

(-nam) 1) Worship, service.

2) Sorrow, repentance. E. ās with anu, kṛt aff. lyuṭ. Ii. n.

(-nam) 1) Taking a seat after another (has sat down); mahokṣaṃ vā mahājaṃ vā śrotriyāyopakalpayet . satkriyānvāsanaṃ svādubhojanaṃ sūnṛtaṃ vacaḥ [in which passage—Yājnav. 1. 109 —the reading satkriyānvāsanaṃ seems preferable to the reading satkriyāṃ cāsanaṃ, since the Mitākṣara explains: tasminnupaviṣṭe paścādupaveśanamanvāsanam, considering in the latter half of the Śloka the words as nominatives (with an ellipsis kartavyā &c.) satkiyā . anvāsanaṃ &c.].

2) A manufactory, a place where artisans work (‘karmaśālā ca kārūṇāmanvāsanamudāhṛtam Halāyudha; liter. ‘a by-shop’). E. anu and āsana. Iii. m. n.

(-naḥ-nam) An oily enema. E. A contraction of anuvāsana q. v.

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

Anvāsana (अन्वासन):—[anvā+sana] (naṃ) 1. n. An unctuous substance; work; a work-house.

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context information

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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Anvāsana (ಅನ್ವಾಸನ):—

1) [noun] the act of taking a seat after the other (esp. a guest) sits (as a matter of showing respect).

2) [noun] the act, practice or quality of being hospitable; solicitous entertainment of guests; hospitality.

3) [noun] a repenting or being penitent; feeling of sorrow, etc., esp. for wrongdoing; compunction; repentance.

4) [noun] a building in which things are assembled, manufactured, repaired; a factory; a workshop.

5) [noun] the forcing of a liquid( a purgative, medicine, etc.) into the colon through the anus; enema.

6) [noun] the enema liquid so forced into the colon.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Asana.

Full-text: Anuvasana.

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