Apsas: 6 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryApsas (अप्सस्).—n. Ved. Form, beauty; or one possessed of beauty; cheek (?). उषा हस्रेव नि रिणीते अप्सः (uṣā hasreva ni riṇīte apsaḥ) Ṛgveda 1.124.6.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryApsas (अप्सस्).—[neuter] forehead or face.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Apsas (अप्सस्):—n. ‘the hidden part of the body’, the secret charms (of a wife), [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Sāma-veda] ([‘breast or κόλπος’ [Grassmann]; ‘cheek’ [Brāhmaṇa]; ‘forehead, face’ [Boehtlingk’s Sanskrit-Woerterbuch in kuerzerer fassung]]), hidden fault, sin, [Maitrāyaṇī-saṃhitā; Kāṭhaka]
2) (apsvas), [Kapila’s Sāṃkhya-pravacana]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryApsas (अप्सस्):—n.
(-psaḥ) (ved.) The same as rūpa; esp. form, beauty. E. Śākapūṇi, as quoted by Yāska, derives this word as a [tatpurusha compound] from a neg. and psas (psā, probably uṇ. aff. asun) and interprets it as meaning liter. ‘what ought to be looked upon (ādarśanīya)’ or ‘what ought to be diffused’ i. e. manifest to sight ‘vyāpanīyaṃ vā spaṣṭaṃ darśanāya’; but in the latter acceptation probably from ap (comp. the E. of apta) and implying perhaps the meaning of īpsita.
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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.
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Ends with: Dirghapsas, Sahasrapsas, Vapsas.
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Rig Veda 7.4.6 < [Sukta 4]
Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)
Kāṇḍa IX, adhyāya 4, brāhmaṇa 1 < [Ninth Kāṇḍa]
Kāṇḍa VIII, adhyāya 2, brāhmaṇa 1 < [Eight Kāṇḍa]