Sadhyabhava, Sādhyābhāva, Sadhya-abhava: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySādhyābhāva (साध्याभाव).—the absence of the major term.
Derivable forms: sādhyābhāvaḥ (साध्याभावः).
Sādhyābhāva is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sādhya and abhāva (अभाव).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionarySādhyābhāva (साध्याभाव).—m.
(-vaḥ) 1. Absence of the thing to be proved. 2. Absence of the subject of a proposition. 3. Impossibility of cure. E. sādhya, and abhāva non-existence.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Sādhyābhāva (साध्याभाव):—[from sādhya > sādh] m. absence of the thing to be proved, [ib.]
2) [v.s. ...] impossibility of cure, [ib.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionarySādhyābhāva (साध्याभाव):—[sādhyā-bhāva] (vaḥ) 1. m. Absence of the thing to be proved; incurability.
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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