Samavahara, Samavahāra: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Samavahāra (समवहार).—

1) Mixture; कुशलाकुशलसमवहारविनिर्मित (kuśalākuśalasamavahāravinirmita) Bhāg. 5.14.1.

2) Collection; प्रज्ञासमवहारोऽयं कविभिः संभृतं मधु (prajñāsamavahāro'yaṃ kavibhiḥ saṃbhṛtaṃ madhu) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.142.3.

Derivable forms: samavahāraḥ (समवहारः).

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

Samavahāra (समवहार).—[masculine] abundance, multitude.

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

1) Samavahāra (समवहार):—[=sam-avahāra] [from samava-hṛ] m. collection, quantity, abundance, [Mahābhārata]

2) [v.s. ...] mixture, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

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

Samavāhāra (समवाहार):—(raḥ) 1. m. Mixture, union.

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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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