Purvakaya, Pūrvakāya, Purva-kaya: 6 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPūrvakāya (पूर्वकाय).—
1) the fore-part of the body of animals; पश्चार्धेन प्रविष्टः शरपतनभयाद् भूयसा पूर्वकायम् (paścārdhena praviṣṭaḥ śarapatanabhayād bhūyasā pūrvakāyam) Ś.1.7.
2) the upper part of the body of men; स्पृशन् करेणानतपूर्वकायम् (spṛśan kareṇānatapūrvakāyam) R.5.32; पर्यङ्कबन्धस्थिरपूर्वकायम् (paryaṅkabandhasthirapūrvakāyam) Kumārasambhava 3.45.
Derivable forms: pūrvakāyaḥ (पूर्वकायः).
Pūrvakāya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pūrva and kāya (काय).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryPūrvakāya (पूर्वकाय).—m. the fore-part of the body, [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] [distich] 7. Yaśaḥ-kāya, m. a body consisting of glory, i. e. glory, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 2, 21.
Pūrvakāya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pūrva and kāya (काय).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryPūrvakāya (पूर्वकाय).—[masculine] the fore or upper part of the body.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPūrvakāya (पूर्वकाय):—[=pūrva-kāya] [from pūrva] m. the fore (part of the) body (of animals) or the upper (part of the) body (of men), [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Mahābhārata etc.]
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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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Ends with: Nirayatapurvakaya.
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