Pratipalana, Pratipāḷaṇa, Pratipālaṇa, Pratipālana: 13 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Pratipāḷaṇa can be transliterated into English as Pratipalana or Pratipaliana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Pratipalan.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन) refers to the “guarding (of all crops)”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [After the Vajrapāṇi asked the Bhagavān for instructions for protection of crops]: “Then the Bhagavān addressed Vajrapāṇi, the Lord of the Guhyakas, ‘Vajrapāṇi, there is the dhāraṇī called the Nāga Assailing and Impeding Vajra, that is the seal of the heart of the Tathāgatas , uttered by former Tathāgatas, Arhats and Perfectly Awakened Ones. I will also utter it now. By this there will be a rapid guarding of all crops (sarvasasya-pratipālana) for the sake of warding off damage. [...]’”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

pratipāḷaṇa (प्रतिपाळण).—See pratipāla &c.

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

pratipāḷaṇa (प्रतिपाळण).—See pratipāla &c.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन).—

1) Guarding, protecting, defending.

2) observance, following, practising; शृणु सखि साधनमेकं न कुलप्रतिपालनं श्रेयः (śṛṇu sakhi sādhanamekaṃ na kulapratipālanaṃ śreyaḥ) Udb.

Derivable forms: pratipālanam (प्रतिपालनम्).

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

Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन).—n.

(-naṃ) 1. Protecting, defending, guarding, cherishing. 2. Following, practising. E. prati and pāl to cherish, lyuṭ aff.

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

Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन).—[neuter] keeping, protecting, maintaining, observing, (expecting*).

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

1) Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन):—[=prati-pālana] [from prati-pāl] n. guarding, protecting, keeping, cherishing, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] maintaining, observing, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa]

3) [v.s. ...] waiting, expecting, [Ratnāvalī]

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

Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन):—[prati-pālana] (naṃ) 1. n. Protecting.

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

Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Paḍivālaṇa.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pratipalana 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.

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Hindi dictionary

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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

1) Pratipālana (प्रतिपालन) [Also spelled pratipalan]:—(um) protection, giving sustenance, providing subsistence; maintenance; observance; implementation; ~[pālya] one who is under protection; ~[pālana karanā] to protect, to give sustenance, to provide subsistence; to maintain; to observe; to implement.

2) Pratipālanā (प्रतिपालना):—(v) see [pratipālana] ([karanā]).

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Kannada-English dictionary

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Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Pratipālana (ಪ್ರತಿಪಾಲನ):—[noun] = ಪ್ರತಿಪಾಲನೆ [pratipalane].

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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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