Samsriti, Samshriti, Saṃsṛti: 13 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Saṃsṛti can be transliterated into English as Samsrti or Samsriti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Sansrati.
In Hinduism
Kavyashastra (science of poetry)
Saṃṣṛṭi (संषृटि) refers to “collocation of figures” and represents one of the various Alaṅkāras (‘figures of speech’) classified as Artha (‘sense’), as employed in the Bhīṣmacarita (Bhishma Charitra) which is a mahākāvya (‘epic poem’) written by Hari Narayan Dikshit.—An effective use of ‘saṃṣṛṭi’ is found at various places in this poem of Hari Narayan. Some of his best uses of the alaṅkāra are there in the poem. For illustration, in IV.31 the poet has nicely depicted the river flowing with clean water as if welcoming Devavrata. The other examples are XIV.56 and XV.35.
Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.
Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Saṃsṛti (संसृति) refers to “(leading others out of) Saṃsāra”, according to the Aṣṭāvakragītā (5th century BC), an ancient text on spirituality dealing with Advaita-Vedānta topics.—Accordingly, [as Aṣṭavakra says to Janaka]: “[...] Who does not end up with indifference to such things and attain peace when he has seen the differences of opinions among the great sages, saints and Yogīs? Is he not a Guru who, endowed with dispassion and equanimity, achieves full knowledge of the nature of consciousness, and leads others out of saṃsāra [e.g., saṃsṛti]? [nirvedasamatāyuktyā yastārayati saṃsṛteḥ] [...]”.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
General definition (in Hinduism)
Saṃsṛti (संसृति) is a Sanskrit word referring to the cycle of repeated birth and death.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
saṃśṛti (संशृति).—f or saṃśraya m S Support, protection, shelter.
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saṃsṛti (संसृति).—f S The world; the stream or successive scenes of human affairs; the life of mortals. See saṃsaraṇa. 2 Flow, stream, current.
saṃśṛti (संशृति).—f m Support, shelter, pro- tection.
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saṃsṛti (संसृति).—f The world; the life of mortals. Stream.
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
Saṃsṛti (संसृति).—f.
1) Course, current, flow.
2) The worldly life, courses of the world; यर्हि संसृतिबन्धोऽयमात्मनो गुणवृत्तिदः (yarhi saṃsṛtibandho'yamātmano guṇavṛttidaḥ) Bhāgavata 11.13.28.
3) Metempsychosis, transmigration; किं मां निपातयसि संसृतिगर्तमध्ये (kiṃ māṃ nipātayasi saṃsṛtigartamadhye) Bv.4.32; Śiśupālavadha 14.63; cf. संसार (saṃsāra).
4) The state or course (gati); एताः संसृतयः पुंसो गुणकर्म- निबन्धनाः (etāḥ saṃsṛtayaḥ puṃso guṇakarma- nibandhanāḥ) Bhāgavata 11.26.32.
Derivable forms: saṃsṛtiḥ (संसृतिः).
Saṃsṛti (संसृति).—f.
(-tiḥ) 1. The world. 2. Flow, stream, current. 3. Transmigration. E. sam and sṛ to go, ktin aff.
Saṃsṛti (संसृति).—i. e. sam-sṛ + ti, f. 1. Current, stream. 2. Course, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 3, 9, 9. 3. Transmigration, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 5, 18, 14. 4. The world.
Saṃsṛti (संसृति):—[=saṃ-sṛti] [from saṃ-sṛ] f. course, revolution, ([especially]) passage through successive states of existence, course of mundane existence, transmigration, the world (-cakra n. and -cakra-vāla n. ‘the wheel or circle of mundane existence’), [Aṣṭāvakra-saṃhitā; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
Saṃsṛti (संसृति):—[saṃ-sṛti] (tiḥ) 2. f. The world; stream.
Saṃsṛti (संसृति):—(von sar mit sam) f. = saṃsāra
2) b) [AṢṬĀV. 9, 6. 18, 86.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1,1, 14. 5, 19. 34. 7, 22. 15, 33. 2, 2, 33. 3, 9, 9. 23, 55. 26, 7. 27, 4. 31, 31. 32, 38. 4, 21, 31. 29, 35. 5, 10, 23. 6, 1, 1. 17, 23. 7, 2, 25. 13, 27. 8, 19, 25. 22, 9. 9, 19, 20. 10, 31, 5. 73, 8. 88, 40.] [PAÑCAR. 3, 3, 1. 4, 3, 195.] cakra [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 31, 20. 5, 11, 6. 7, 7, 37.] cakravāla [5, 18, 14.] = pravāha [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 189.] — Vgl. loka .
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.
Hindi dictionary
Saṃsṛti (संसृति) [Also spelled sansrati]:—(nf) the world, course of mundane existence.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Saṃsṛti (ಸಂಸೃತಿ):—
1) [noun] a direction or route taken or to be taken; the path, route or channel along which anything moves; a course.
2) [noun] worldly life; mundane course of life.
3) [noun] the unending cycle of births and deaths that an individual soul has to go through and the accompanying sufferings.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Shriti, Sam, Cam.
Starts with (+0): Samsriticakra, Samsriticakravala, Samsritidharma, Samsritigati, Samsritiharana, Samsritipantha, Samsritividhi.
Full-text (+0): Lokasamsriti, Samsriticakra, Asamsriti, Khalasamsriti, Samsritigati, Samsritividhi, Samsritidharma, Samsarasamsriti, Samsriticakravala, Samsruti, Sansrati, Liu zhuan sheng si, Lun zhuan sheng si, Sheng si liu zhuan.
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