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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pralambha (प्रलम्भ).—

1) Obtaining, gaining, attaining.

2) Deceiving, imposing upon, cheating, overreaching; (nyavedayat) प्रलम्भमात्मनश्चैव शूद्रायाः पुत्रजन्म च (pralambhamātmanaścaiva śūdrāyāḥ putrajanma ca) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 1.16.3.

Derivable forms: pralambhaḥ (प्रलम्भः).

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

Pralambha (प्रलम्भ).—(-bāhu) [, in Divyāvadāna 99.18, misprint or error for Sanskrit and [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] pralamba-.]

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

Pralambha (प्रलम्भ).—m.

(-mbhaḥ) 1. Obtaining, gaining. 2. Fraud, cheating. E. pra before, labhi to get, ghañ aff.

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

Pralambha (प्रलम्भ).—i. e. pra-labh + a, m. 1. Obtaining, [Rāmāyaṇa] 5, 68, 43. 2. Fraud.

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

Pralambha (प्रलम्भ).—[masculine] gain, acquisition, also = seq.

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

1) Pralambha (प्रलम्भ):—[=pra-lambha] [from pra-labh] a m. obtaining. gaining, [Rāmāyaṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] (also [plural]) overreaching, deceiving, [Mahābhārata]

3) [=pra-lambha] b lambhana See pra√labh.

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

Pralambha (प्रलम्भ):—[pra-lambha] (mbhaḥ) 1. m. Fraud, cheating.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Lambha, Pra.

Starts with: Pralambhana.

Ends with: Dushpralambha, Ishatpralambha, Karunavipralambha, Supralambha, Vipralambha.

Full-text: Ishatpralambha, Supralambha, Vipralambha, Vipralambhin, Vipralambhana, Pralambh, Dushpralambha, Vipralambhakatva, Vipralambhaka.

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Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)

Verse 3.2.54 < [Part 2 - Affection and Service (dāsya-rasa)]

Verse 3.3.28 < [Part 3 - Fraternal Devotion (sakhya-rasa)]

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Shri Gaudiya Kanthahara (by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati)

Chapter 9 - Bhagavad-rasa-tattva

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