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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Avaskandana (अवस्कन्दन).—

1) Attacking; attack, assault; अवस्कन्दं करिष्यामि शिबिरस्याद्य दुष्करम् (avaskandaṃ kariṣyāmi śibirasyādya duṣkaram) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 1.3.27. °प्रदानम् (pradānam) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 3.39 leading an assault.

2) Descending; स नद्यव- स्कन्दमुपास्पृशच्च (sa nadyava- skandamupāspṛśacca) Bhaṭṭikāvya 2.11.

3) A camp (jigīṣūṇām niveśasthānam Halāy.).

4) (in law) Accusation.

Derivable forms: avaskandanam (अवस्कन्दनम्).

See also (synonyms): avaskanda.

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

Avaskandanā (अवस्कन्दना).—(compare Sanskrit avaskandana, nt., accusation, legal attack; to ava-skand-, attack, usually in military sense), (verbal) attack; injurious speech; °skandanā is read for °sphaṇḍanam in a text parallel to Śikṣāsamuccaya 172.1 idam agraṃ pāruṣyāṇāṃ yad utāryāṇāṃ avasphaṇḍanam, see Bendall's note p. 408; Tibetan gnod pa, injure.

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

Avaskandana (अवस्कन्दन).—n.

(-naṃ) 1. Attacking, assaulting, storm. 2. Bathing. 3. Descending. E. ava before skandana going.

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

1) Avaskandana (अवस्कन्दन):—[=ava-skandana] [from ava-skand] n. idem, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

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

4) [v.s. ...] (in law) accusation.

5) [v.s. ...] (also) attack, onset, rushing on (prati), [Kāvyaprakāśa]

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

Avaskandana (अवस्कन्दन):—[ava-skandana] (naṃ) 1. n. Assault &c.

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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 corpus

Avaskaṃdana (ಅವಸ್ಕಂದನ):—[noun] = ಅವಸ್ಕಂದ - [avaskamda -] 1 & 2.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Skandana, Ava.

Ends with: Abhyavaskandana, Pratyavaskandana.

Full-text: Abhyavaskandana, Avasphandana, Pratyavaskandana, Avaskanda.

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