Prasvapa, Prasvāpa: 7 definitions
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of termsPrasvāpa (प्रस्वाप):—Numbness
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
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPrasvāpa (प्रस्वाप).—
1) Sleep.
2) A dream.
3) A missile which induces sleep; प्राजापत्यं विश्वकृतं प्रस्वापं नाम भारत (prājāpatyaṃ viśvakṛtaṃ prasvāpaṃ nāma bhārata) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 5. 183.12.
Derivable forms: prasvāpaḥ (प्रस्वापः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrasvāpa (प्रस्वाप).—m.
(-paḥ) 1. Sleep. 2. A missile which brings on sleep. 3. A dream.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrasvāpa (प्रस्वाप).—i. e. pra-svap + a, I. adj. Epithet of a weapon (causing to sleep),
1) Prasvāpa (प्रस्वाप):—[=pra-svāpa] [from pra-svap] mfn. causing sleep, soporific, [Mahābhārata]
2) [v.s. ...] m. falling asleep, sleep, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] a dream, [ib.]
[Sanskrit to German]
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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