Avasadana, Avasādana: 9 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAvasādana (अवसादन).—
1) Decline, loss, destruction; नन्दनं वानरेन्द्राणां रक्षसामवसादनम् (nandanaṃ vānarendrāṇāṃ rakṣasāmavasādanam) Rām.6.18.12. असूनामवसादनम् (asūnāmavasādanam) Ve.6.
2) Inability to do one's duty.
3) Oppression.
4) Finishing.
5) An escharotic.
6) Removing proud flesh (from boils) by escharotic application; उत्सन्नमृदुमांसानां व्रणानामवसादनम् (utsannamṛdumāṃsānāṃ vraṇānāmavasādanam) Suśr.
Derivable forms: avasādanam (अवसादनम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAvasādana (अवसादन).—(to avasādayati), (1) adj., f. °nī, censuring, rebuking: Bodhisattvabhūmi 220.3 (kuśale sthāne pratiṣṭhāpanārthaṃ…) saṃcodanāvasādanī priyavāditā; (2) °nā, subst. f. censure, rebuke: Bodhisattvabhūmi 83.18 avasādanā madhyame vyatikrame, censure (is appropriate) in case of a transgression (of) middling (gravity); 179.18, see s.v. avasādayati; 295.21 avasādanāsādhyaḥ, to be perfected by censure; Jātakamālā 217.8 tām avasādanām amṛṣyamāṇaḥ, impatient of this rebuke; Divyāvadāna 490.5, 6 avasādanāvineyaḥ, to be converted (sub- stantially = °nā-sādhyaḥ, above) by rebuke (which is applied in 7 in the words tvaṃ tāvac cūḍaḥ etc.; ed. Index discouragement, not quite rightly; the opposite is utsahanā-vineya, see utsahanā); in Lalitavistara 70.11 (saṃcārya) vicāryāvasādanākāreṇa pāṇiṃ saṃcārayati sma (subject, the Bodhisattva in his mother's womb); Foucaux, ‘en l'étendant pour le signal du départ’ (sc. for the attendant gods), but avasādanā can hardly mean this. Tibetan had a quite different reading, containing smṛtaḥ saṃprajānan as in 1.15 (dran zhiṅ śes bzhin du, both times). I cannot solve the passage but think it probably corrupt, despite the lack of variants. Perhaps follow the lead of Tibetan
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAvasādana (अवसादन).—n.
(-naṃ) 1. Finishing. 2. An escharotic. 3. Removing proud flesh by escharotic applications. E. ava before ṣada to go, lyuṭ aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Avasādana (अवसादन):—[=ava-sādana] [from ava-sad] n. oppressing, disheartening
2) [v.s. ...] the state of being disheartened, [Caraka]
3) [v.s. ...] an escharotic, removing proud flesh by escharotic applications, [Suśruta]
4) Avasādanā (अवसादना):—[=ava-sādanā] [from ava-sādana > ava-sad] f. humiliation, discouragement
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryAvasādana (अवसादन):—[ava-sādana] (naṃ) 1. n. Removing.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Avasādana (अवसादन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Osāyaṇa.
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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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusAvasādana (ಅವಸಾದನ):—
1) [noun] the depositing or formation of sediment; sedimentation.
2) [noun] (meterol.) precipitation a) a depositing of rain, snow, sleet, etc. b) rain, snow, sleet, etc. c) the amount of this.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Starts with: Avasadanavineya.
Ends with: Gamdavasadana.
Full-text: Avasadanavineya, Osayana, Kshup, Utsahana.
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