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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Prativyūha (प्रतिव्यूह).—The son of Vatsavyūha and father of Divākara.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 99. 282.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prativyūha (प्रतिव्यूह).—

1) Arraying an army against an enemy.

2) A multitude, collection.

Derivable forms: prativyūhaḥ (प्रतिव्यूहः).

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

Prativyūha (प्रतिव्यूह).—m.

(-haḥ) The array of an army against an enemy.

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

Prativyūha (प्रतिव्यूह).—[prati-vyūha], m. 1. Arraying an army against an enemy. Mahābhārata 6. 2073. 2. A multitude, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 3605.

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

1) Prativyūha (प्रतिव्यूह):—[=prati-vyūha] [from prati-vyūh] m. drawing out an army in opposite battle-array, [Mahābhārata]

2) [v.s. ...] echo, reverberation, [Harivaṃśa 3605] ([Nīlakaṇṭha]; others ‘multitude’)

3) [v.s. ...] Name of a prince, [Viṣṇu-purāṇa] ([varia lectio] vyoman).

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

Prativyūha (प्रतिव्यूह) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Paḍivūha.

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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

Prativyūha (ಪ್ರತಿವ್ಯೂಹ):—[noun] a counter array or scheme designed to face enemy’s array or scheme.

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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, Vyuha.

Full-text: Padivuha, Divakara.

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