The Sanskrit term Saṃharṣaṇa can be transliterated into English as Samharsana or Samharshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

Saṃharṣaṇa (संहर्षण):—[saṃharṣaṇaṃ] Sense of friction, Horripilation

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Saṃharṣaṇa (संहर्षण) refers to the “bristling (of the hairs of one’s body)”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [as the Nāga-kings said to Bhagavān], “[...] O Bhagavān, when we all stand visibly in front of the Bhagavān, thus frightened and trembling, with the hairs on our bodies bristling (saṃharṣaṇa), overcome with great dreadful fear, standing all with agitated minds, O Bhagavān, how will monks be in the last time, in the last age, after the Tathāgata has departed? [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Saṃharṣaṇa (संहर्षण).—Emulation, rivalry.

Derivable forms: saṃharṣaṇam (संहर्षणम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Saṃharṣaṇā (संहर्षणा).—(n. act. in -anā, see prec.), a gladdening: (teṣāṃ…vaṇijānām) imāṃ saṃharṣaṇām akārṣīt Lalitavistara 387.11 (prose), made the following gladdening of those merchants (by gāthās now cited).

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

Saṃharṣaṇa (संहर्षण).—[feminine] ī causing the erection of the hair of the body, gladdening; [neuter] ardour, emulation, jealousy.

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

1) Saṃharṣaṇa (संहर्षण):—[=saṃ-harṣaṇa] [from saṃ-harṣa > saṃ-hṛṣ] mf(ī)n. causing (the hair of the body) to stand erect (See loma-h)

2) [v.s. ...] gladdening, delighting (with [genitive case]), [Mahābhārata]

3) [v.s. ...] n. emulation, rivalry, [Kāmandakīya-nītisāra]

[Sanskrit to German]

Samharshana 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Harshana, Sam.

Ends with: Lomasamharshana.

Full-text: Samharsha, Lomasamharshana, Spardha.

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