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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pratihan (प्रतिहन्).—2 P.

1) To strike back or in return; (taṃ) विध्यन्तमुद्धृतसटाः प्रतिहन्तुमीषुः (vidhyantamuddhṛtasaṭāḥ pratihantumīṣuḥ) R.9.6.

2) To ward off, keep off, prevent, oppose, resist; तोयस्येवाप्रतिहतरयः सैकतं सेतुमोघः (toyasyevāpratihatarayaḥ saikataṃ setumoghaḥ) Uttararāmacarita 3.36; प्रतिहतविघ्नाः क्रियाः समवलोक्य (pratihatavighnāḥ kriyāḥ samavalokya) Ś.1.13; Meghadūta 2; Kumārasambhava 2.48; V.2.1.

3) To repel, drive back, repulse; अग्निवेगवहः प्राणो गुदान्ते प्रतिहन्यते (agnivegavahaḥ prāṇo gudānte pratihanyate) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 3.213.14.

4) To remove, destroy; यद्यत् पापं प्रतिजहि जगन्नाथ नम्रस्य तन्मे (yadyat pāpaṃ pratijahi jagannātha namrasya tanme) Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 1.3.

5) To counter-act, remedy.

6) To disown, disavow.

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

Pratihan (प्रतिहन्).—strike against ([genetive]), strike at, attack ([accusative]); strike down, break; pierce, broach; beat back, repel, hinder; frustrate, destroy.

Pratihan is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms prati and han (हन्).

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

Pratihan (प्रतिहन्):—[=prati-√han] [Parasmaipada] -hanti ([Epic] also [Ātmanepada] [perfect tense] -jaghne), to beat against ([genitive case]), [Tāṇḍya-brāhmaṇa];

—to attack, assail, [Mahābhārata];

—to strike down, [ib.];

—to crush, break, [Ṛg-veda];

—to put on a spit, [ib. i, 32, 12];

—to strike in return, strike back, ward off remove, dispel, check, prevent, frustrate, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.;

— (with ājñām), to disregard a command, [Śiśupāla-vadha] :

—[Passive voice] -hanyate, to be beaten back etc., [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.;

—to be kept away from or deprived of ([ablative]), [Śaṃkarācārya] :—[Causal] -ghātayati See under prati-gha.

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

Pratihan (प्रतिहन्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Paḍihaṇa.

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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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Partial matches: Prati, Han.

Starts with: Pratihana, Pratihanakuta, Pratihanana, Pratihantar, Pratihantavya, Pratihantra, Pratihantri, Pratihanyamana, Pratihanyana, Pratihanyate, Pratihanyati.

Ends with: Sampratihan.

Full-text: Pratihati, Padihana, Pratighna, Pratihatya, Pratihantavya, Pratighataka, Pratighatana, Pratihatamati, Pratighataya, Pratihataraya, Pratihantri, Pratihatadhi, Sampratihan, Pratihanyamana, Pratighatin, Pratihanana, Pratighata, Pratihanyati, Pratihanyate, Pratihata.

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