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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pratipāna (प्रतिपान).—

1) Water for drinking.

2) Drinking, giving a drink; अश्वानां प्रतिपानं च खादनं चैन सोऽन्वशात् (aśvānāṃ pratipānaṃ ca khādanaṃ caina so'nvaśāt) Rām. 2.5.47.

Derivable forms: pratipānam (प्रतिपानम्).

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Pratipāṇa (प्रतिपाण).—

1) a stake.

2) a counter-pledge.

3) a counter-stake; Mahābhārata (Bombay) 3.

Derivable forms: pratipāṇaḥ (प्रतिपाणः).

Pratipāṇa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms prati and pāṇa (पाण).

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

Pratipāṇa (प्रतिपाण).—n.

(-ṇaṃ) 1. Stake, gage, the thing played for. 2. A counterpledge, the thing staked against another. E. prati, and paṇ to have price, ghañ aff.

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

Pratipāṇa (प्रतिपाण).—i. e. prati-paṇ + a, m. 1. A counter-pledge, the thing staked against another, [Nala] 9, 2. 2. Revenge at play, [Nala] 26, 7.

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

Pratipāṇa (प्रतिपाण).—[masculine] counter-stake or game.

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Pratipāna (प्रतिपान).—[neuter] drinking or water for drinking.

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

1) Pratipaṇa (प्रतिपण):—[=prati-paṇa] 1. prati-paṇa m. (for 2. See p.667) the stake of an adversary at play, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

2) Pratipāṇa (प्रतिपाण):—[=prati-pāṇa] 1. prati-pāṇa m. (for 2. See sub voce) a counter-pledge, anything staked against another thing, [Mahābhārata]

3) [v.s. ...] a counter-stake, counter-game, revenge at play, [Nalopākhyāna] (cf. -paṇa, above).

4) Pratipaṇa (प्रतिपण):—[=prati-paṇa] 2. prati-paṇa m. (√paṇ) barter, exchange, [Atharva-veda] (for 1. See p. 662, col. 1).

5) Pratipāṇa (प्रतिपाण):—[=prati-pāṇa] 2. prati-pāṇa (√paṇ) m. (for 1. See p. 662, col. 2) ready to exchange, bartering, [Atharva-veda]

6) Pratipāna (प्रतिपान):—[=prati-pāna] n. (√1. pā) drinking, [Āpastamba] (cf. pratī-p)

7) [v.s. ...] water for drinking, [Rāmāyaṇa]

8) Pratīpāna (प्रतीपान):—[=pratī-pāna] [from pratī] n. (cf. prati-p) drinking, [Āpastamba]

9) Prātipāna (प्रातिपान):—[from prāti] mfn. (a jar) containing water to drink, [Mānava-gṛhya-sūtra]

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

Pratipāṇa (प्रतिपाण):—[prati-pāṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Stake played for.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Pratipāna (ಪ್ರತಿಪಾನ):—

1) [noun] the act or process of drinking (a liquid).

2) [noun] water that is fit to drink; drinkable water.

3) [noun] a kind of nutritive, energising drink given to horses.

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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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Partial matches: Prati, Pana.

Starts with: Pratipanaka.

Full-text: Pratipanaka, Pradatavya, Pa, Pana, Pad.

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