Spasha, Spaśa: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Spaśa can be transliterated into English as Spasa or Spasha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySpaśa (स्पश).—[spaś-ac]
1) A spy, a secret emissary or agent; स्पशे शनैर्गतवति तत्र विद्विषाम् (spaśe śanairgatavati tatra vidviṣām) Śiśupālavadha 17.2; Mu.3.13; see अपस्पश (apaspaśa) also.
2) Fight, war, battle.
3) One who fights with savage animals (for reward), or the fight itself.
Derivable forms: spaśaḥ (स्पशः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionarySpaśa (स्पश).—m.
(-śaḥ) 1. A spy, a secret agent or emissary. 2. War, battle. 3. Fighting with a dangerous animal, as a tiger, a buffalo, &c., for reward. E. spaś to inform, aff. ac .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionarySpaśa (स्पश).—[spaś + a] (see dṛś), m. 1. A spy, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 116 (v. r. see Lois.; read in [Kullūka Schol. ed. [Mānavadharmaśāstra]] commentary cārabhūta, and cf. the vedic designation of Agni as dūta, messenger); [Pañcatantra] 156, 21. 2. A secret agent, 3. War. 4. Fighting with a dangerous animal.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionarySpaśa (स्पश).—[masculine] the same.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Spaśa (स्पश):—[from spaś] m. = [preceding] [ṢaḍvBr.; Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata; Pañcatantra]
2) [v.s. ...] a fight, war, battle, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) [v.s. ...] a kind of gladiator who fights with a savage animal for a reward, [Horace H. Wilson] cf. [Greek] σκοπός.
4) Spaśā (स्पशा):—[from spaś] f. girding a wife (at a sacrifice performed by her husband), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Spaśa (स्पश):—spaśati, te 1. c. To exhibit; obstruct; string together; inform; to touch. (ka) spāśayate 10. d. To take; to unite.
2) (śaḥ) 1. m. A spy; war; fighting with a tiger, &c.
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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)
Starts with: Spashana.
Ends with: Apaspasha, Paspasha, Pratispasha, Rakshaspasha, Ubhayataspasha.
Full-text: Apaspasha, Sprisha, Pratispasha, Sudrish, Sparsha, Sahasraksha, Pishuna, Rudra, Anu.
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