Prasnava: 8 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prasnava (प्रस्नव).—

1) Flowing, pouring forth, exudation; सान्द्रानन्दक्षुभितहृदयप्रस्नवेनेव सृष्टः (sāndrānandakṣubhitahṛdayaprasnaveneva sṛṣṭaḥ) Uttararāmacarita 6.22.

2) A stream or flow (as of milk); प्रस्नवेनाभिवर्षन्ती वत्सालोकप्रवर्तिना (prasnavenābhivarṣantī vatsālokapravartinā) R.1.84.

3) (pl.) Tears; Mb.

4) Urine; Mb.

Derivable forms: prasnavaḥ (प्रस्नवः).

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

Prasnava (प्रस्नव).—m.

(-vaḥ) 1. Flowing, pouring forth. 2. A stream.

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

Prasnava (प्रस्नव).—i. e. pra-snu + a, m. Dropping, stream, [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] [distich] 150 (v.r., cf. prasnuta-stana); [Uttara Rāmacarita, 2. ed. Calc., 1862.] 153, 3.

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

Prasnava (प्रस्नव).—[masculine] what flows forth, [especially] milk or urine, [plural] tears.

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

1) Prasnava (प्रस्नव):—[=pra-snava] a pra-snāvin See under pra-√snu.

2) [=pra-snava] [from pra-snu] b m. (often [varia lectio] srava) a stream or flow (of water, milk etc.), [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa]

3) [v.s. ...] [plural] tears, [Mahābhārata]

4) [v.s. ...] urine, [ib.]

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

Prasnava (प्रस्नव) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Paṇhaa, Paṇhava.

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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.

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