Samahara, Samāhāra, Samāhara, Samāhārā: 17 definitions
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In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
Samāhāra (समाहार).—Collection, collective notion, which is one of the four senses of the indeclinable च. The collective notion by nature being single, the dvandva compound formed of words showing such a collection takes the neuter gender and singular number affixes; cf.यदा तिरोहितावयव-विवक्षा संहतिः प्रधानं तदा समाहारः (yadā tirohitāvayava-vivakṣā saṃhatiḥ pradhānaṃ tadā samāhāraḥ) Siradeva Pari. 16; cf. also P. II.2.29 and II. 1. 51.
Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Samāhārā (समाहारा) refers to one of the eight Dikkumārīs living on the southern Rucaka mountains (in the Rucakadvīpa continent), according to chapter 1.2 [ādīśvara-caritra] of Hemacandra’s 11th century Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra: an ancient Sanskrit epic poem narrating the history and legends of sixty-three illustrious persons in Jainism.
Accordingly,
“[...] Eight Dikkumārīs [viz., Samāhārā], living on the southern Rucaka Mountains, came there, impelled by joy like a whip. Having bowed to the Ford of Jinas and his mother and having introduced themselves as before, they stood on the right, singing, with pitchers in their hands. [...].”.
Note: In the continent Rucakadvīpa is a circular mountain-ranges Rucaka. On this in the four directions are 4 temples, and on both sides of each temple are 4 mountain peaks, making 8 peaks in each direction. Each peak is inhabited by a Dikkumārī [viz., Samāhārā].—(cf. ‘Die Kosmographie der Inder’ pp. 257f).
Samāhāra (समाहार) refers to the “totality” (of a list), according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “Rudra, elephants of the quarters, gods, demons, aerial spirits, aquatic predators, the planets, the Vyantaras , the guardians of the quarters of the sky, the enemies [of Vāsudeva], Hari, Bala, the chief of the snakes, the lord of the discus (i.e. Viṣṇu) and others who are powerful, the wind, the sun, etc. [com.—the totality (samāhāraḥ) of these (teṣāṃ)] all themselves having come together are not able to protect an embodied soul even for an instant [when death is] initiated by the servants of Yama”.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
samāhāra (समाहार).—m S Putting or bringing together; combination, composition, collection, aggregation, accumulation; assembling or an assemblage. 2 (For akṣarasamāhāra or varṇasamāhāra) The alphabet. 3 Contraction, abridgment: also an abridgment, epitome, compendium, summary. 4 In grammar. Composition of words. 5 Conjunction of words or sentences, the power or sense of the copulative and. 6 A form of verbal composition,--a subdivision of the class dvanda. 7 (sama & āhāra) One or the same quantity of food.
samāhāra (समाहार).—m Combination. Abridgment. In- clusion, comprehension.
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
Samāhara (समाहर).—a. Destroying; कालः सर्वसमाहरः (kālaḥ sarvasamāharaḥ) Rām.7. 14.2.
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Samāhāra (समाहार).—
1) A collection, an aggregate, assemblage; Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 9; ततः कपिसमाहारमेकनिश्चायमागतम् (tataḥ kapisamāhāramekaniścāyamāgatam) Bhaṭṭikāvya 7.34.
2) Composition of words.
3) Conjunction of words or sentences.
4) A subdivision of Dvandva and Dvigu compounds expressing an aggregate (as tribhuvanam).
5) Abridgment, contraction, conciseness.
6) Combination of two letters of the alphabet into a syllable (= pratyāhāra q. v.).
Derivable forms: samāhāraḥ (समाहारः).
Samāhāra (समाहार).—m.
(-raḥ) 1. Aggregation, collection, assemblage, either in fact or thought. 2. Contraction, abridgment. 3. Composition or words, (in grammar.) 4. Conjunction of equal words or sentences, the power of the particle “and.” 5. A particular form of composition, a sub-division of the class Dwanda, in which several words are joined together, and the compound is a term in the neuter gender, as ahinakulaṃ the snake and mungoos. 6. The combination of two letters of the alphabet into a syllable, which designates all the letters intermediate between the two of which it consists. E. sam together, āṅ before hṛ to take or convey, and ghañ aff.
Samāhāra (समाहार).—i. e. sam-ā-hṛ + a, m. 1. Collection, aggregation, [Mālatīmādhava, (ed. Calc.)] 155, 8. 2. Contraction, abridgment.
Samāhāra (समाहार).—[masculine] seizure, drawing back, abstraction; collection, aggregation.
1) Samāhara (समाहर):—[=sam-āhara] [from samā-hṛ] mfn. crushing together, destroying, [Rāmāyaṇa]
2) Samāhāra (समाहार):—[=sam-āhāra] [from samā-hṛ] m. seizing, taking hold of [Gṛhyāsaṃgraha]
3) [v.s. ...] aggregation, summing up, sum, totality, collection, assemblage, multitude, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.
4) [v.s. ...] (in gram.) conjunction or connecting of words or sentences (as by the particle ca), [Śaṃkarācārya; Prātiśākhya [Scholiast or Commentator]; Pāṇini [Scholiast or Commentator]]
5) [v.s. ...] compounding of words, a compound ([especially] applied to a Dvaṃdva whose last member is in the neuter gender e.g. ahi-nakulam, ‘a snake and an ichneumon’, or to a Dvigu, when it expresses an aggregate; See trilokī), [Pāṇini]
6) [v.s. ...] = pratyāhāra, [Vopadeva] (cf. [Indian Wisdom, by Sir M. Monier-Williams 169 n.])
7) [v.s. ...] withdrawal (of the senses from the world), [Kāmandakīya-nītisāra]
8) [v.s. ...] contraction, abridgment, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Samāhāra (समाहार):—[samā+hāra] (raḥ) 1. m. Aggregation; abridgment; grammatical combination.
Samāhara (समाहर):—(von har mit samā) adj. vernichtend (vgl. har mit sam): kālaḥ sarvasamāharaḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 104, 2.]
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Samāhāra (समाहार):—(wie eben) m.
1) das Ergreifen: yajñadravya [GṚHYAS. 2, 44.] —
2) Zusammenfassung, Summirung; Summe [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 10, 5, 7.] [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 16, 7.] Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā Prātiśākhya 18, 4.] zweier Töne [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 1, 40.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 2, 31.] als eine der Bedd. von ca (wo es nämlich mehr als zwei Gegenstände zusammenfasst) [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 32 (28), 2.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 6, 4], Einl. vāgādi die Summe [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [S. 82.] trayāṇāṃ padānāṃ samāhārastripadam Zusammenfassung in Eins Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 1, 61. 9, 18. 10, 6. 14, 1.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 1, 51. 2, 29, Scholiast] —
3) Collection, Menge [Mahābhārata 12, 3862.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 12, 7, 2.] phalamūlasamāhārairmahadbhiḥ [Mahābhārata 15, 725.] anna [Kathāsaritsāgara 122, 63.] nānāvākya [Mahābhārata 1, 2886.] guṇa [Mālatīmādhava 155, 9.] dehaṃ niṣphalamāyāsamāhāram [Kathāsaritsāgara 38, 111.] —
4) = pratyāhāra
4) [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 1, 1.] —
5) das Zurückziehen (der Sinne von der Sinnenwelt): sarvendriya (vgl. pratyāhāra) [KĀM. NĪTIS. 2, 31.] — Zu gaṅgāvarte samāhāre [Oxforder Handschriften 11], b, 13 v. u. vgl. gaṅgāgarbhasamāhāraṃ 49, b, 38. Nach den Lexicographen: = samuccaya [Amarakoṣa 3, 3, 16.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1524.] = saṃkṣepa [1432.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 283.] [Halāyudha 4, 81.] = ekatrakaraṇa [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha]
Samāhāra (समाहार) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Samāhāra, Samāhārā.
Samāhāra (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 總 [zǒng]: “overall”.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Samāhara (समाहर) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Samāhṛ.
2) Samāhāra (समाहार) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Samāhāra.
3) Samāhārā (समाहारा) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Samāhāra.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Samāhāra (ಸಮಾಹಾರ):—
1) [noun] an assemblage; a multitude.
2) [noun] that which is condensed, abridged.
3) [noun] conjunction or connecting of words or sentences (as by using a particle or particles).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Samāhāra (समाहार):—n. 1. collection; aggregate; assemblage; 2. composition of words; 3. conjunction of words or sentences; 4. a subdivision of dvandva (द्वन्द्व [dvandva] ) and dvigu (द्विगु [dvigu] ) compounds; expressing an aggregate; 5. abridgement; contraction; conciseness; 6. a combination of two letters of the alphabet into a syllable; 7. conjugation;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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Partial matches: Sam, Cam, Ahara.
Starts with: Samaaharan, Samaharana, Samaharavarna.
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