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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Apavāha.—(CII 1), the act of carrying away [as a prisoner]. Note: apavāha is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Apavāha (अपवाह).—

1) Taking or carrying away, removal; Daśakumāracarita 41; स्वराष्ट्रं वासयेद्राजा परदेशापवाहनात् (svarāṣṭraṃ vāsayedrājā paradeśāpavāhanāt) H.3. v. l. bearing away men from other countries; See अभिष्यन्द (abhiṣyanda).

2) Deduction, subtraction (as of fractions).

3) Name of a metre.

Derivable forms: apavāhaḥ (अपवाहः).

See also (synonyms): apavāhana.

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

Apavāha (अपवाह).—m.

(-haḥ) An inference or deduction. E. apa before, vaha to bear, ghañ aff.

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

1) Apavāha (अपवाह):—[=apa-vāha] [from apa-vah] m. ‘carrying off (water)’, a channel, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā]

2) [v.s. ...] ‘carrying off’ See vasiṣṭhāpavāha, deduction, subtraction

3) [v.s. ...] Name of a metre

4) [v.s. ...] of a people.

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

Apavāha (अपवाह):—[tatpurusha compound] 1. m.

(-haḥ) 1) (In Arithmetic.) Deduction, lessening, subtraction; esp. of fractions; see bhāgāpavāha, lavāpavāha; e. g. svāṃśādhikonaḥ khalu yatra tatra bhāgānubandhe ca lavāpavāhe . talasthahāreṇa haraṃ nihanyātsvāṃśādhikonena tu tena bhāgān, ‘but, if indeed the quantity be increased or diminished by a part of itself, then in the addition and subtraction of fractions, multiply the denominator by the denominator standing underneath and the numerator by the same augmented or lessened by its own numerator (comp. Colebr. Alg. p. 15 and the following).

2) The name of a metre regulated by number and quantity, a variety of Utkṛti; it consists of a stanza of four lines with the following twenty six syllables in each line: {??} 2. m. pl.

(-hāḥ) The name of a country or people; also read upavāha or pravāha. E. vah with apa, kṛt aff. ghañ.

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

Apavāha (अपवाह):—[apa-vāha] (haḥ) 1. m. An inference.

[Sanskrit to German]

Apavaha in German

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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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Apavāha (अपवाह):—(nm) drainage; outflow; drift; -[kṣetra] drainage area; -[taṃtra] drainage (system).

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Apavāha (ಅಪವಾಹ):—

1) [noun] a carrying away; conveying.

2) [noun] the mathematical process of finding the difference between two numbers or quantities; subtraction.

3) [noun] (pros.) a meter in which each foot has twenty six letters.

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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: Vaha, Apa.

Starts with: Apavahaka, Apavahana, Apavahati.

Ends with: Bhagapavaha, Lavapavaha, Papavaha, Rashibhagapavaha, Rupabhagapavaha, Vasishthapavaha.

Full-text: Apavahana, Apavahaka, Bhagapavahajati, Ayavaha, Lavapavaha.

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