Apashraya, Apaśraya, Apāśraya: 12 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Apaśraya and Apāśraya can be transliterated into English as Apasraya or Apashraya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryApaśraya (अपश्रय).—A bolster, pillow.
Derivable forms: apaśrayaḥ (अपश्रयः).
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Apāśraya (अपाश्रय).—a. Without support or refuge, helpless.
-yaḥ 1 Refuge, recourse, that to which recourse is had for refuge; कर्णे कृतापाश्रयः (karṇe kṛtāpāśrayaḥ) Ve.5.1.
2) An awning or canopy spread over a courtyard.
3) Head; त्वदङ्कापाश्रयां ताम् (tvadaṅkāpāśrayāṃ tām) Daśakumāracarita 34,69.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryApaśraya (अपश्रय).—(°-) (?) (m.? compare Pali apassaya, Sanskrit apāśraya; Vedic apaśrayaḥ, AV 15.3.8, [Boehtlingk and Roth] Kopfpolster, but Whitney support?), support: Lalitavistara 430.20 (prose; in composition). But good mss. support apāśraya-, which should probably be adopted.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryApāśraya (अपाश्रय).—m.
(-yaḥ) An awning spread over a court or yard. mfn.
(-yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) Helpless, destitude. E. apa, and āśraya protection.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryApāśraya (अपाश्रय).—i. e. apa-ā-śri + a, m. 1. Refuge, support, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 9, 335. 2. An awning spread over a court, [Rāmāyaṇa] 5, 11, 19. 3. The head, [Daśakumāracarita] in
Apāśraya (अपाश्रय).—[masculine] support, refuge; p. apāśraya++vant & apāśayayin.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Apaśraya (अपश्रय):—[=apa-śraya] [from apa-śri] m. a bolster, [Atharva-veda xv, 3, 8.]
2) Apāśraya (अपाश्रय):—[=apā-śraya] [from apā-śri] 2. apā-śraya m. the upper portion of a bed or couch on which the head rests, [Daśakumāra-carita]
3) [v.s. ...] refuge, recourse, the person or thing to which recourse is had for refuge
4) [v.s. ...] an awning spread over a court or yard, [Rāmāyaṇa v, 11, 19.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryApaśraya (अपश्रय):—[tatpurusha compound] f.
(-yaḥ) (ved.) Probably the same as upaśraya q. v. of which it occurs as a various reading. E. śri with apa, kṛt aff. ac.
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Apāśraya (अपाश्रय):—I. [tatpurusha compound] m.
(-yaḥ) 1) A support, a recipient, the person on which another reposes, as it were, by whom he is protected; e. g. brāhmaṇāpāśrayo nityamutkṛṣṭāṃ jātimaśnute (scil. śūdraḥ) ‘a Śūdra who is supported by a Brahmaṇa obtains always a superior birth’; (speculation has been rife on this passage of Manu 9. 335.: both Calc. editions read brāhmaṇāyāśrayo—which is meaningless—, another reading is brāhmaṇopāśrayo, and the correctness of the word apāśraya in this verse has been even doubted; but it occurs and is commented upon in the same sense ‘recipient, support’ e. g. in the Bhāgavata Pur. Vi. 19. 12. where Viṣṇu is contrasted with Śrī:) tvaṃ hi sarvaśarīryātmā śrīḥ śarīrendriyāśayāḥ . nāmarūpe bhagavatī pratyayastvamapāśrayaḥ (comm. pratyayo nāmarūpayoḥ prakāśaḥ . apāśrayaḥ . tayorādhāraḥ); i. e. ‘…thou makest them manifest and thou art their recipient or support’.—Comp. also apāśrita.
2) That which rests upon; (used in this sense Daśakumārach. ed. Wilson p. 90, 1. 13, where the word implies the meaning ‘head’ as resting on the hand).
3) An awning spread over a court or yard. E. śri with ā and apa, kṛt aff. ac. Ii. [bahuvrihi compound] m. f. n.
(-yaḥ-yā-yam) Unsupported, helpless. E. apa and āśraya.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryApāśraya (अपाश्रय):—[apā+śraya] (yaḥ) 1. m. An awning over a court-yard. a. Destitute.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Āpāśraya (आपाश्रय) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Āvassaya.
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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 corpusApāśraya (ಅಪಾಶ್ರಯ):—[adjective] deprived of support, help, home, refuge, etc.; helpless; supportless; homeless.
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Apāśraya (ಅಪಾಶ್ರಯ):—
1) [noun] a home, refuge; resort.
2) [noun] an enclosure for the front-yard of a house.
3) [noun] a structure of thin strips, esp. of wood, crossing each other in an open pattern of squares, diamonds, etc., raised in front of a house, for shelter.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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