Apavrata: 6 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryApavrata (अपव्रत).—a. Ved.
1) Swerving from religious observances, irreligious, impious; अनुव्रताय रन्धयन्नपव्रतानाभूभिरिन्द्रः (anuvratāya randhayannapavratānābhūbhirindraḥ) Ṛgveda 1.51.9; देवहेलनान्यपव्रतानि (devahelanānyapavratāni) Bhāgavata 5.6.1.
2) Disobedient, unfaithful.
3) Perverse. गूळ्हं सूर्यं तमसापव्रतेन तुरीयेण ब्रह्मणाविन्ददत्रिः (gūḷhaṃ sūryaṃ tamasāpavratena turīyeṇa brahmaṇāvindadatriḥ) Ṛgveda 5.4.6.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryApavrata (अपव्रत).—[adjective] not devout, faithless, disobedient.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Apavrata (अपव्रत):—[=apa-vrata] mfn. disobedient, unfaithful, [Ṛg-veda]
2) [v.s. ...] perverse, [Ṛg-veda v, 40, 6]
3) [v.s. ...] ([x, 103] additional verse,=), [Atharva-veda iii, 2, 6] = [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā xvii, 47.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryApavrata (अपव्रत):—[bahuvrihi compound] m. f. n.
(-taḥ-tā-tam) (ved.)
1) Neglecting holy acts, impious, as haters of the Brāhmaṇas.
2) Destructive of holy acts, an epithet of tamas or darkness, ‘as the holy acts of those surrounded by darkness perish’; (explained in this sense by Sāyaṇa on Sāmav. 2. 1210 and by Mahīdhara on the corresponding verse of the Vājas. 17. 47). E. apa and vrata.
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Ends with: Kashyapavrata.
Full-text: Anuvrata.
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