The Sanskrit term Aśvavāra can be transliterated into English as Asvavara or Ashvavara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Wisdom Library: Bhagavata Purana

Aśvavāra (अश्ववार):—The name of a minister of king Śāntanu (one of the three sons of Pratīpa). (see Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.22.16)

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)

Source: archive.org: Syainika Sastra of Rudradeva with English Translation (art)

Aśvavāra (अश्ववार) refers to “horsemen” (employed in hunting), according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, “Hunting by watching the motion of standing crops is that in which animals are killed by the indication of the motion of wheat and other standing crops in which they hide themselves. In Sanskrit it is named Yāvaśī. This is ‘played’ by two or three horsemen (aśvavāra) who are expert archers. It is successful, if the advance is slow and the motion of standing crops carefully observed. It doesn’t produce much fatigue, but it produces great excitement”.

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This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.

India history and geography

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Aśvavāra.—cf. Asavāra (EI 2), a horseman. Note: aśvavāra 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

Aśvavāra (अश्ववार).—[aśvaṃ vārayati upa. sa.] a horseman, groom; दुःखेन निश्चक्रमुरश्ववाराः (duḥkhena niścakramuraśvavārāḥ) Śiśupālavadha 3.66.

Derivable forms: aśvavāraḥ (अश्ववारः).

Aśvavāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aśva and vāra (वार). See also (synonyms): aśvavāla, aśvavāraka.

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

Aśvavāra (अश्ववार).—m.

(-raḥ) A horseman. E. aśva and vṛñ to nourish, aṇ aff.

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

Aśvavāra (अश्ववार).—i. e. aśva-vṛ + a, m. A horseman, [Rāmāyaṇa] 5, 73, 11.

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

1) Aśvavāra (अश्ववार):—[=aśva-vāra] [from aśva] 1. aśva-vāra m. (= -vāla q.v.) Saccharum Spontaneum, [Pāṇini 8-2, 18] [commentator or commentary] (cf. āśvavāra.)

2) [v.s. ...] 2. aśva-vāra m. a horseman, [Rāmāyaṇa; Śiśupāla-vadha iii, 66, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] a groom, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) Āśvavāra (आश्ववार):—[from āśva] mfn. made of the cane Aśva-vāra, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Maitrāyaṇī-saṃhitā]

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

Aśvavāra (अश्ववार):—[aśva-vāra] (raḥ) 1. m. Idem.

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

Aśvavāra (अश्ववार) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Asavāra.

[Sanskrit to German]

Ashvavara 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Ashva, Vara.

Starts with: Ashvavaraja, Ashvavaraka, Ashvavarana.

Full-text: Ashvavala, Ashvavaraka, Asavara, Ashvavaha, Ashvavarika, Vara.

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