Apashri, Apaśrī, Apasṛ, Apāśri: 8 definitions

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The Sanskrit terms Apaśrī and Apasṛ and Apāśri can be transliterated into English as Apasri or Apashri or Apasr, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Apaśrī (अपश्री).—a. Deprived of beauty; कुमुदवनमपश्रि श्रीमदम्भोजषण्डम् (kumudavanamapaśri śrīmadambhojaṣaṇḍam) Śiśupālavadha 11.64.

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Apasṛ (अपसृ).—1 P.

1) To walk off, go or get away, depart; अपसर इतः (apasara itaḥ) begone, avaunt hence, get you gone; अपसरा- ग्रतः (apasarā- grataḥ) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1.

2) To withdraw, retire, retreat, turn back; यदपसरति मेषः कारणं तत्प्रहर्तुम् (yadapasarati meṣaḥ kāraṇaṃ tatprahartum) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 3.43.

3) To vanish, disappear; यस्यानुष्ठानेन मे सन्ततिविनाशदुःखमपसरति (yasyānuṣṭhānena me santativināśaduḥkhamapasarati) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1.

4) To escape, elude the sight. -Caus. To make (a thing or person) go away or retire, take or put away, remove, drive away or off, throw aside; अपसारय घनसारम् (apasāraya ghanasāram) K. P.9; अपसार्यतां वेत्रलता (apasāryatāṃ vetralatā) Pt.

1) put aside, take away; Manusmṛti 7.149.

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Apāśri (अपाश्रि).—1 U.

1) To resort to, betake oneself to; परस्परं केचिदपाश्रयन्ते (parasparaṃ kecidapāśrayante) Rām.

2) To use, practise, employ; आहार- मनपाश्रित्य शरीरस्येव धारणम् (āhāra- manapāśritya śarīrasyeva dhāraṇam) Mb.

3) To rest on, lie on (intrans.).

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

Apaśrī (अपश्री).—adj. deprived of beauty, [Śiśupālavadha] 11, 64.

Apaśrī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms apa and śrī (श्री).

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

Apaśri (अपश्रि).—[Middle] lean, rest.

Apaśri is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms apa and śri (श्रि).

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Apasṛ (अपसृ).—glide down from ([ablative]); roll back (paścāt, waggon); go off, cease, pass away. [Causative] remove, take off or out.

Apasṛ is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms apa and sṛ (सृ).

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

1) Apaśri (अपश्रि):—[=apa-√śri] to retire from, [Lāṭyāyana]

2) Apaśrī (अपश्री):—[=apa-śrī] mfn. deprived of beauty, [Śiśupāla-vadha]

3) Apasṛ (अपसृ):—[=apa-√sṛ] ([imperfect tense] -sarat) to slip off from ([ablative]), [Ṛg-veda iv, 30, 10];

—to go away, retreat:—[Causal] -sārayati, to make or let go away, remove.

4) Apāśri (अपाश्रि):—[=apā-√śri] [Parasmaipada] [Ātmanepada] -śrayati, te, to resort to, to use, practise.

5) Apāsṛ (अपासृ):—[=apā-√sṛ] (apa-ā-; or apā for apa, the ā standing in the antepenultimate of a śloka), to turn off from, avoid (with [ablative]), [Yājñavalkya ii, 262.]

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

Apaśrī (अपश्री):—[bahuvrihi compound] m. f. n.

(-śrīḥ-śrīḥ-śri) Deprived of beauty, lustre &c. (see the meanings of śrī). E. apa and śrī.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Apasṛ (अपसृ) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Avasara, Osara.

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