Prayapana, Prayāpana, Prayāpaṇa: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prayāpana (प्रयापन) or Prayāpaṇa (प्रयापण).—

1) Sending.

2) Expelling, driving away; cf. P.VIII.4.3 com.

Derivable forms: prayāpanam (प्रयापनम्), prayāpaṇam (प्रयापणम्).

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

Prayāpaṇa (प्रयापण).—n. (-ṇa) 1. Sending, dispatching. 2. Expelling, driving away. E. pra before, to go, causal v., lyuṭ aff.; also na being unchanged, prayāpana .

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

1) Prayāpaṇa (प्रयापण):—[=pra-yāpaṇa] [from pra-yāṇa > pra-yā] n. ([from] [Causal]), [Pāṇini 8-4, 30 [Scholiast or Commentator]]

2) Prayāpana (प्रयापन):—[=pra-yāpana] [from pra-yāṇa > pra-yā] n. ([from] [Causal]), [Pāṇini 8-4, 30 [Scholiast or Commentator]]

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

Prayāpaṇa (प्रयापण):—[pra-yāpaṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Sending; expelling.

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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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