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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Avaropaṇa (अवरोपण).—

1) Uprooting.

2) Causing to descend.

3) Taking away, depriving, diminishing.

4) Setting (as of the sun).

5) Planting; अत ऊर्ध्वं प्रवक्ष्यामि वृक्षाणामव- रोपणम् (ata ūrdhvaṃ pravakṣyāmi vṛkṣāṇāmava- ropaṇam) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.58.22.

Derivable forms: avaropaṇam (अवरोपणम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Avaropaṇa (अवरोपण).—nt. (to avaropayati; in Sanskrit in meaning planting), (1) cutting off (hair) (in this sense = Pali oropaṇa): Lalitavistara 432.15 -keśāvaropaṇa-; (2) depositing (of relics, in a stūpa): dhātv-avaropaṇa Kāraṇḍavvūha 20.2 (text dhyānāva°); 40.24; 41.1; 77.3 (in all three text dhātvāva°); (3) discredi- ting, lowering in estimation: Śikṣāsamuccaya 126.4 na mukhasākṣy-a- varopaṇa-vacano bhavati, he is not one to speak to the dis- credit of a direct witness.

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

Avaropaṇa (अवरोपण).—n.

(-ṇaṃ) 1. Taking away, depriving, diminishing. 2. Descending. 3. Setting, (as of the sun.) E. ava affix, and ropaṇa placing.

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

1) Avaropaṇa (अवरोपण):—[=ava-ropaṇa] [from ava-ruh] n. planting, [Mahābhārata xiii, 2991], causing to descend, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] depriving, diminishing, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Avaropaṇa (अवरोपण):—[ava-ropaṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Diminishing; descending; setting (as the sun.)

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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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Partial matches: Ropana, Ava.

Starts with: Avaropanaraja.

Ends with: Dhatvavaropana, Dhyanavaropana.

Full-text: Dhatvavaropana.

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