Apahnava: 10 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryApahnava (अपह्नव).—
1) Concealment, hiding; concealment of one's knowledge, feelings &c. स कदाचिदुपासीन आत्मापह्नवमात्मनः (sa kadācidupāsīna ātmāpahnavamātmanaḥ) Bhāgavata 9.6.49.
2) Denial or disowning of the truth, dissimulation; °वे ज्ञः (ve jñaḥ) P.I.3.44; ज्ञातं मया ते हृदयं सखे माऽपह्नवं कृथाः (jñātaṃ mayā te hṛdayaṃ sakhe mā'pahnavaṃ kṛthāḥ) Kathāsaritsāgara 1.92.
3) Appeasing, satisfying.
4) Love, affection.
Derivable forms: apahnavaḥ (अपह्नवः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryApahnava (अपह्नव).—m.
(-vaḥ) 1. Denial or concealment of knowledge. 2. Affection. E. apa before, hnuṅ to conceal, and ac aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryApahnava (अपह्नव).—i. e. apa-hnu + a, m. 1. Denying, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 52. 2. Concealment, [Kathāsaritsāgara, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 10, 92.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryApahnava (अपह्नव).—[masculine] hvuti [feminine] denial, concealment.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Apahnava (अपह्नव):—[=apa-hnava] [from apa-hnu] m. concealment, denial of or turning off of the truth
2) [v.s. ...] dissimulation, appeasing, satisfying, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] affection, love, [Rāmāyaṇa]
4) [v.s. ...] = apa-hnuti, [Sāhitya-darpaṇa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryApahnava (अपह्नव):—[tatpurusha compound] m.
(-vaḥ) 1) Denial, concealment of knowledge; e. g. abhiyuktobhiyogasya yadi kuryādapahnavam . mithyā tattu vijānīyāduttaraṃ vyavahārataḥ ...
2) Secreting, concealment in general; compare apahāra; e. g. sādhāraṇadhanāpahnavaścauryameva.
3) Dissimulation.
4) Affection, love (this meaning perhaps arising from ‘self-denial’; comp. apalāpa). E. hnu with apa, kṛt aff. ap.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryApahnava (अपह्नव):—[apa-hnava] (vaḥ) 1. m. Denial.
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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 corpusApahnava (ಅಪಹ್ನವ):—
1) [noun] a wrong statement; a deceiving speech; act of lying; concealment of facts.
2) [noun] act of comforting in distress or making feel less sad; consolation.
3) [noun] friendly feeling or attitude; friendliness; the state of being friends.
4) [noun] (rhet.) a fig, of speech, in which the real character of the thing in question is denied and that of another (alien or imaginary) object is attributed to or superimposed upon it.
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)
Starts with: Apahnavana, Apahnavavadin.
Ends with: Atyantapahnava, Nirapahnava, Nyasapahnava, Sapahnava.
Full-text: Nirapahnava, Nyasapahnava, Atyantapahnava, Apahnavavadin, Abela, Nihnava.
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5: Definition of Apahnuti Alaṃkāra < [Chapter 4 - Arthālaṃkāras mentioned by Vāmana]
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1-2: The number of Alaṃkāras (poetic figures) mentioned < [Chapter 5 - A Comparative study of the different alaṃkāras mentioned by Vāmana]
Shishupala-vadha (Study) (by Shila Chakraborty)
Knowledge of Rhetoric (Alaṃkāra) in the Śiśupālavadha < [Introduction]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 11 - Padmapāda (a.d. 820) < [Chapter XI - The Śaṅkara School of Vedānta (continued)]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 12 - Epistemology of the Rāmānuja School according to Meghanādāri and others < [Chapter XX - Philosophy of the Rāmānuja School of Thought]