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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Nirharaṇa (निर्हरण).—

1) Carrying out dead bodies to be burnt, carrying corpses to the funeral pile; तस्य निर्हरणादीनि (tasya nirharaṇādīni)... ...युधिष्ठिरः कारयित्वा (yudhiṣṭhiraḥ kārayitvā) Bhāgavata 1.9.46.

2) Taking forth, carrying or drawing out, extracting, removal.

3) Rooting up, extirpation, destruction.

4) An antidote (Mar. viṣācā utārā); तांस्तान् विषविशेषांश्च तत्तन्निर्हरणानि च (tāṃstān viṣaviśeṣāṃśca tattannirharaṇāni ca) Śiva. B.3.2.

Derivable forms: nirharaṇam (निर्हरणम्).

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

Nirharaṇa (निर्हरण).—n.

(-ṇaṃ) 1. Taking forth or out. 2. Removing entirely. 3. Setting apart. 4. Burning dead bodies, or carrying them out to be burnt. E. nir away, haraṇa taking.

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

Nirharaṇa (निर्हरण).—i. e. nis-hṛ + ana, n. 1. Rooting up, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 7, 7, 28. 2. Removal, 6, 3, 24. 3. Carrying a corpse to the funeral pyre, [Rāmāyaṇa] 2, 80, 20.

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

Nirharaṇa (निर्हरण).—[neuter] taking out or off, removing, carrying away.

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

1) Nirharaṇa (निर्हरण):—[=nir-haraṇa] [from nir-hṛ] n. taking out, extracting, expelling, removing, destroying, [Mahābhārata; Suśruta; Purāṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] carrying out ([especially] a dead body), [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa etc.]

3) Nirhāraṇa (निर्हारण):—[=nir-hāraṇa] [from nir-hṛ] n. ([from] [Causal]) causing (a dead body) to be carried out, [Manvarthamuktāvalī, kullūka bhaṭṭa’s Commentary on manu-smṛti]

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

Nirharaṇa (निर्हरण):—[nir-haraṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Removing; taking the dead to be burnt.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Nirharaṇa (निर्हरण) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇīharaṇa.

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Nirharana in German

context information

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

Nirharaṇa (ನಿರ್ಹರಣ):—

1) [noun] the act of taking out, extracting.

2) [noun] a removing, expelling.

3) [noun] the act of destroying completely.

context information

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: Nir, Harana.

Starts with: Nirharanashauca.

Ends with: Abhinirharana, Garbhanirharana, Vyadhinirharana.

Full-text: Niharana, Nirihara, Niharia, Garbhanirharana.

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