Prashas, Praśās: 5 definitions
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Praśās (प्रशास्).—2 P.
1) To teach, instruct, advise; अपि साक्षात् प्रशिष्यास्त्वं कृच्छ्रेष्विन्द्रपुरोहितम् (api sākṣāt praśiṣyāstvaṃ kṛcchreṣvindrapurohitam) Bhaṭṭikāvya 19.19.
2) To order, command; प्रशाधि यन्मया कार्यम् (praśādhi yanmayā kāryam) Mārk. P.
3) To rule, govern, be lord of; द्यां प्रशाधि गलितावधिकालम् (dyāṃ praśādhi galitāvadhikālam) N.5.24; R.6.76;9.1.
4) To punish, chastise.
5) To pray or ask for, seek for (Atm.); इदं कविभ्यः पूर्वेभ्यो नमोवाकं प्रशास्महे (idaṃ kavibhyaḥ pūrvebhyo namovākaṃ praśāsmahe) Uttararāmacarita 1.1 (used in the sense of śās with ā q. v.).
Praśas (प्रशस्).—[feminine] axe, hatchet, knife.
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Praśās (प्रशास्).—instruct, teach, direct, order, command; dispose of, decide ([accusative] ±adhi); rule, govern (±rājyam).
Praśās is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pra and śās (शास्).
1) Praśas (प्रशस्):—[=pra-śas] f. (√1. śas) a hatchet, axe, knife, [Aitareya-brāhmaṇa] ([Nirukta, by Yāska [Scholiast or Commentator]]; others = pra-śasta, pra-kṛṣṭa-cchedana etc.)
2) Praśās (प्रशास्):—[=pra-√śās] [Parasmaipada] -śāsti, ([Epic] also [Ātmanepada]), to teach, instruct, direct, [Ṛg-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Rāmāyaṇa];
2) —to give instructions to, order, command ([accusative]), [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa; Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa];
2) —to chastise, punish, [Mahābhārata; Kathāsaritsāgara];
2) —to govern, rule, reign (also with rājyam), be lord of ([accusative] with or without adhi), [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.;
2) —to decide upon ([locative case]), [Mahābhārata]
Praśas (प्रशस्):—(śas mit pra) f. Axt, Beil, Messer oder dergl.: śyenamasya vakṣaḥ kṛṇutātpraśasā bāhū [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2, 6.] svadhityākṛtī ityeke [DURGA] zu [Yāska’s Nirukta 5, 11.] nach Andern so v. a. praśasta, prakṛṣṭacchedana u. s. w.
Praśas (प्रशस्):—f. Axt , Beil , Messer oder dgl. Nach Einigen Adj. = praśasta , prakṛṣṭacchedana u.s.w. vgl. auch [Jaiminiyanyāyamālāvistara 9,4,9] nebst Comm.
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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