Pratyupamana, Pratyupamāna: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPratyupamāna (प्रत्युपमान).—
1) A counterpart of a resemblance.
2) A pattern, model.
3) A counter-comparison; उपमान- स्यापि सखे प्रत्युपमानं वपुस्तस्याः (upamāna- syāpi sakhe pratyupamānaṃ vapustasyāḥ) V.2.3.
Derivable forms: pratyupamānam (प्रत्युपमानम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryPratyupamāna (प्रत्युपमान).—i. e. prati -upamāna, n. A counter-comparison, [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] [distich] 22 (upamānasyāpi, of every comparison, i. e. incomparable).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPratyupamāna (प्रत्युपमान):—[=praty-upamāna] [from praty > prati] n. a counter comparison, the ideal of an ideal, [Vikramorvaśī]
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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: Praty, Upamana.
Full-text: Upamana.
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