Shamyaprasa, Śamyāprāsa, Shamyaprasha: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śamyāprāsa can be transliterated into English as Samyaprasa or Shamyaprasa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: archive.org: Puranic EncyclopediaŚamyāprāsa (शम्याप्रास).—A sacred place on the banks of river Sarasvatī. Here Vyāsa once built an āśrama and lived there. (Devī Bhāgavata, 6th Skandha).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexŚamyāprāsa (शम्याप्रास).—The hermitage of Vyāsa on the bank of the Sarasvatī.*
- * Bhāgavata-purāṇa I. 7. 2-3.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryŚamyāprāsa (शम्याप्रास).—m. (= Pali sammāpāsa, e.g. Sn 303; expl. commentary i.321.29 ff. as a form of the ‘sātrāyāga’, = Sanskrit sattra-yāga ?, repeated at intervals of a ‘wedge-throw’; so Sanskrit id., compare KŚS 15.9.12 śamyāprāsa-śamyāprāse, in a ritual sūtra), a kind of elaborate brahmanical sacrifice: so read for somaprāsa Mahāvastu ii.237.20, and śāmyaprāśa (śāmyā°) Divyāvadāna 634.7, 11, 17, 20; in list of brahmanical sacrifices (as in Pali Sn) cited s.v. nirargaḍa, q.v.
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Śāmyaprāśa (शाम्यप्राश).—[, Divyāvadāna 634.7, 11, 17, 20, mostly by em., mss. generally śāmyāprāṇaṃ; read śamyāprāsa, q.v.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚamyāprāsa (शम्याप्रास).—[masculine] prāsana [neuter] the same.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śamyāprāsa (शम्याप्रास):—[=śamyā-prāsa] [from śamyā > śam] m. ([Āpastamba]) = -kṣepa above.
2) Śāmyaprāśa (शाम्यप्राश):—[=śāmya-prāśa] [from śāmya > śāma] m. a kind of sacrifice, [Divyāvadāna]
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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Partial matches: Prasa, Shamya.
Starts with: Shamyaprasana.
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