Prasava: 17 definitions

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Prasava means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi. 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.

Alternative spellings of this word include Prasav.

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Prasava (प्रसव).—A son of Bhṛgu.^*

* Vāyu-purāṇa 65. 87.

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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.

Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: Wisdom Library: Nāṭya-śāstra

Prasava (प्रसव) refers to “birth of a child” and is one of the six reasons for “conjugal union” (vāsaka) between a king and a women, according to the Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 24. Accordingly, “conjugal union (vāsaka) being due, kings should go to the bed-chamber of a wife even if she may be in her menses and may not be his favourite”.

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Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: Wisdom Library: Raj Nighantu

Prasava (प्रसव) refers to a “flower”, as mentioned in a list of eight synonyms, according to the second chapter (dharaṇyādi-varga) of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). The Dharaṇyādi-varga covers the lands, soil, mountains, jungles and vegetation’s relations between trees [viz., Prasava] and plants and substances, with their various kinds.

Unclassified Ayurveda definitions

Source: Ancient Science of Life: Vaidyavallabha: An Authoritative Work on Ayurveda Therapeutics

Prasava (प्रसव) or Yoniprasava refers to an “delivery” (i.e. giving birth), and is dealt with in the 17th-century Vaidyavallabha (chapter 2) written by Hastiruci.—The Vaidyavallabha is a work which deals with the treatment and useful for all 8 branches of Ayurveda. The text Vaidyavallabha (mentioning yoni-prasava) has been designed based on the need of the period of the author, availability of drugs during that time, disease manifesting in that era, socio-economical-cultural-familial-spiritual-aspects of that period Vaidyavallabha.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

prasava (प्रसव).—m (S) Bringing forth or bearing (of young). 2 Birth or production. 3 Offspring.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

prasava (प्रसव).—m Bringing forth (of young). Birth. Offspring.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prasava (प्रसव).—1 Begetting, generation, procreation, birth, production; प्रसवविकारो स्त्रीणां द्वित्रिचतुःप्रभृति संप्रसूतौ वा । हीनातिरिक्तकाले च देशकुलसंक्षयो भवति (prasavavikāro strīṇāṃ dvitricatuḥprabhṛti saṃprasūtau vā | hīnātiriktakāle ca deśakulasaṃkṣayo bhavati) Bṛ. S.

2) Child-birth, delivery, confinement; an in आसन्नप्रसवा (āsannaprasavā).

3) Offspring, progeny, young ones, children; oft. at the end of comp.; केवलं वीरप्रसवा भूयाः (kevalaṃ vīraprasavā bhūyāḥ) Uttararāmacarita 1; Kumārasambhava 7.87.

4) Source, origin, brith-place (fig. also); प्रसवः कर्मफलस्य भूरिणः (prasavaḥ karmaphalasya bhūriṇaḥ) Kirātārjunīya 2.43.

5) Flower, blossom; प्रसवविभूतिषु भूरुहां विरक्तः (prasavavibhūtiṣu bhūruhāṃ viraktaḥ) Śiśupālavadha 7.42; नीता लोध्रप्रसवरजसा पाण्डुतामानने श्रीः (nītā lodhraprasavarajasā pāṇḍutāmānane śrīḥ) Meghadūta 67; कुन्दप्रसवशिथिलं जीवितम् (kundaprasavaśithilaṃ jīvitam) 113; R.9.28; Kumārasambhava 1.55;4.14; Ś.5.9; Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 9.27.31; Uttararāmacarita 2.2.

6) A fruit, product; यज्ञप्रसववर्जिताः (yajñaprasavavarjitāḥ) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.18.46.

7) Ved. Extracting Soma juice; अपुत्रः प्रसवेनार्थी वनवासमुपावसत् (aputraḥ prasavenārthī vanavāsamupāvasat) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.4.6.

7) Setting in motion.

9) A current, stream.

1) Excitement, animation.

11) Enjoining, ordering.

12) Assistance, help.

13) pursuit, acquisition.

Derivable forms: prasavaḥ (प्रसवः).

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

Prasava (प्रसव).—m.

(-vaḥ) 1. Bringing forth, bearing, (as young.) 2. Birth, production. 3. Offspring, posterity. 4. Fruit. 5. A blossom, a flower. 6. Source, origin. E. pra before, sū to bear, aff. ap .

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

Prasava (प्रसव).—i. e. pra-sū + a, m. 1. Bringing forth, [Pañcatantra] 75, 23; being in labour, 228, 14. 2. Offspring, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 3, 22; 9, 55. 3. Blossom. 4. Fruit, [Uttara Rāmacarita, 2. ed. Calc., 1862.] 44, 11.

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

Prasava (प्रसव).—1. [masculine] pressing out the Soma.

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Prasava (प्रसव).—2. [masculine] urging, setting or getting in motion, impulse, animation; furtherance, assistance; activity, pursuit; impeller, vivifier.

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Prasava (प्रसव).—3. [masculine] procreation, generation, conception, bringing forth, childbirth; birthplace; offspring, blossom, flower.

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

1) Prasava (प्रसव):—[=pra-sava] a 1. 2. 3. pra-sava. See pra- √3. su and pra- √1. 2. su.

2) [=pra-sava] [from pra-su] 1. pra-sava m. (for 2. and 3. See p. 698, col. 1) the pressing out (Soma juice), [Ṛg-veda; ???]

3) [=pra-sava] [from pra-sū] 2. pra-sava m. (for 1. pra- √3. su) setting or being set in motion, impulse, course, rush, flight, [Ṛg-veda; Aitareya-brāhmaṇa]

4) [v.s. ...] stimulation, furtherance, aid, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Brāhmaṇa] etc.

5) [v.s. ...] pursuit, acquisition, [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā]

6) [v.s. ...] = next, [Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa 1.]

7) [=pra-sava] [from pra-sū] 3. pra-sava m. (ifc. f(ā). ; for 1. 2. See above) begetting, procreation, generation, conception, parturition, delivery, birth, origin, [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā] etc. etc.

8) [v.s. ...] augmentation, increase, [Mahābhārata]

9) [v.s. ...] birthplace, [ib.; Śaṃkarācārya]

10) [v.s. ...] offspring, posterity, [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc. (kisalaya-pr, ‘a young shoot’ [Raghuvaṃśa])

11) [v.s. ...] a flower, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature; Suśruta] (also n., [Rāmāyaṇa])

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

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

Prasava (प्रसव):—[pra-sava] (vaḥ) 1. m. Bringing forth; birth; offspring; fruit; flower.

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

Prasava (प्रसव) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Pasava.

[Sanskrit to German]

Prasava in German

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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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Prasava (प्रसव) [Also spelled prasav]:—(nm) delivery, child-birth, labour; (a) natal; -[kakṣa] labour room; -[kāla] time of delivery/child-birth; ~[gṛha] see ~[śālā] -[pīḍā/vedanā/vyathā] labour pains, pangs of child-birth; ~[vatī] a woman who has delivered a child, a woman in confinement; ~[śālā] a maternity home.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Prasava (ಪ್ರಸವ):—

1) [noun] the act or giving birth to a child; childbirth.

2) [noun] the act or fact of coming into life or of being born; birth.

3) [noun] that in which something has its birth; origin; source.

4) [noun] a flower or bloom of a plant.

5) [noun] any product of plant growth, usu. that contains a seed or seeds and fleshy or meaty substance that is useful to humans or animals; a fruit.

6) [noun] the quality of being convenient; convenience.

7) [noun] children, descendants or offspring collectively; progeny.

8) [noun] the act of squeezing the juice out from the Sōma plant (used in religious sacrifices).

9) [noun] a moving, going forward or onward; progression.

10) [noun] a current of water or other liquid; a stream.

11) [noun] absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; enthusiasm.

12) [noun] a regulating; regulation.

13) [noun] gain; benefit; advantage.

14) [noun] ಪ್ರಸವವಾಗು [prasavavagu] prasavavāgu (delivering a child) to happen; ಪ್ರಸವಮಾಗು [prasavamagu] prasavamāgu = ಪ್ರಸವವಾಗು [prasavavagu].

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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.

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