Gosava, Go-sava, Go-shava, Gośava, Goshava: 11 definitions
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Gosava means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Gośava can be transliterated into English as Gosava or Goshava, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: archive.org: Puranic EncyclopediaGosava (गोसव).—A mahāyajña. (Śloka 17, Chapter 30, Vana Parva).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index1a) Gosava (गोसव).—A sacrifice performed by Nanda at the suggestion of Kṛṣṇa; one produced by Brahmā.*
- * Bhāgavata-purāṇa III. 2. 32; 12. 40.
1b) The seventh Gāndhāra grāmikā.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 86. 43.
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)Gośava (गोशव) refers to “carcass of a cow” (used as a hunting tactic), 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 lying in wait is that in which a bowman singly or jointly with others awaits the approach of animals and then pierces them with poisoned darts. It succeeds where there are trees of the Beleric myrobalan, in corn fields, and in places for drinking water, An easy success in killing lions and other ferocious animals is achieved by placing the carcass of a cow (gośava) in a suitable position”.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryGosava (गोसव).—a kind of cow-sacrifice (not performed in the Kali age); Mahābhārata (Bombay) 3.3.17.
Derivable forms: gosavaḥ (गोसवः).
Gosava is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms go and sava (सव).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryGosava (गोसव).—m.
(-vaḥ) The sacrifice of a cow, one of the grand sacrifices of the Hindus in former times, and not permitted in the present or Kali yuga age: see gomedha. E. go a cow, and saba sacrifice.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryGosava (गोसव).—m. a kind of sacrifice, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 11, 74.
Gosava is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms go and sava (सव).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryGosava (गोसव).—[masculine] a kind of ([originally] cow-) sacrifice.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Gosava (गोसव):—[=go-sava] [from go] m. Name of an Ekāha ceremony, [Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa ii; Lāṭyāyana; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] a cow-sacrifice, [Horace H. Wilson]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryGosava (गोसव):—(vaḥ) 1. m. The sacrifice of a cow.
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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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Starts with: Gosavada.
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 11.74 < [Section VII - Special Expiation for Special Offences: (a) For Killing a Brāhmaṇa]
Verse 11.77 < [Section VII - Special Expiation for Special Offences: (a) For Killing a Brāhmaṇa]
Verse 2.86 < [Section XVII - Rules of Study]
The Gautami Mahatmya (by G. P. Bhatt)
The Tattvasangraha [with commentary] (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 3620-3621 < [Chapter 26 - Examination of the ‘Person of Super-normal Vision’]
Verse 2787-2789 < [Chapter 24b - Arguments against the reliability of the Veda (the Revealed Word)]
Ramayana of Valmiki (by Hari Prasad Shastri)
Chapter 99 - The Death of the Queens < [Book 7 - Uttara-kanda]
Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Part 10: Story of Mahākāla < [Chapter II - Rāvaṇa’s expedition of Conquest]
Mahabharata (English) (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)
Section CXXII < [Bhagavat-Yana Parva]
Section XXX < [Arjunabhigamana Parva]
Section CIII < [Anusasanika Parva]