The Sanskrit terms Prāyōpavēśana and Prāyopaveśana can be transliterated into English as Prayopavesana or Prayopaveshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

prāyōpavēśana (प्रायोपवेशन).—n S The abstaining totally from food and awaiting, in a fixed posture of meditation, the approach of death. An act of expiation or for the acquisition of religious merit.

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prāyopaveśana (प्रायोपवेशन).—sitting down and abstaining from food and thus preparing oneself for death, fasting oneself to death; मया प्रायोपवेशनं कृतं विद्धि (mayā prāyopaveśanaṃ kṛtaṃ viddhi) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 4; प्रायोपवेशनमति- र्नृपतिर्बभूव (prāyopaveśanamati- rnṛpatirbabhūva) R.8.94; प्रायोपवेशसदृशं व्रतमास्थितस्य (prāyopaveśasadṛśaṃ vratamāsthitasya) Ve.3.1.

Derivable forms: prāyopaveśanam (प्रायोपवेशनम्).

Prāyopaveśana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms prāya and upaveśana (उपवेशन). See also (synonyms): prāyopagamana, prāyopaveśa, prāyopaveśanikā.

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

Prāyopaveśana (प्रायोपवेशन).—n.

(-naṃ) Fasting to death. E. prāya and upaveśana sitting down.

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

Prāyopaveśana (प्रायोपवेशन).—[neuter] seeking death by abstaining from food.

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

Prāyopaveśana (प्रायोपवेशन):—[from prāya] n. abstaining from food and awaiting in a sitting posture the approach of death, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa etc.]

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

Prāyopaveśana (प्रायोपवेशन):—[prāyo+paveśana] (naṃ) 1. n. Fasting to death.

[Sanskrit to German]

Prayopaveshana 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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Partial matches: Upaveshana, Praya.

Full-text: Upaveshana, Prayopavishta, Prayopaveshanika, Prayopavesha, Prayopagamana, Upavesha, Avasada, Praya, Upari.

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