Kshetravyavahara, Kṣetravyavahāra, Kshetra-vyavahara: 5 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Kṣetravyavahāra can be transliterated into English as Ksetravyavahara or Kshetravyavahara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kṣetravyavahāra (क्षेत्रव्यवहार).—

1) drawing a figure in geometry.

2) geometrical demonstration.

Derivable forms: kṣetravyavahāraḥ (क्षेत्रव्यवहारः).

Kṣetravyavahāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kṣetra and vyavahāra (व्यवहार).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Kṣetravyavahāra (क्षेत्रव्यवहार) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a chapter from Bhāskara’s Līlāvatī. Ak 854 (inc.). 899 (inc.).

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

1) Kṣetravyavahāra (क्षेत्रव्यवहार):—[=kṣetra-vyavahāra] [from kṣetra] m. ascertainment of the dimensions of a plane figure, [Līlāvatī of bhāskara]

2) [v.s. ...] (in [geometry]) drawing a figure, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) [v.s. ...] geometrical demonstration, [Horace H. Wilson]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kshetravyavahara in German

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