The Sanskrit term Strīviṣaya can be transliterated into English as Strivisaya or Strivishaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)

Source: archive.org: Syainika Sastra of Rudradeva with English Translation (art)

Strīviṣaya (स्त्रीविषय) refers to “matters related to women”, according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, “Hunting on horseback (āśvina) represents one of the eight subdivisions of Hunting (mṛgayā). [...] In the matter of the intensity of pleasure no distinction is found between hunting and the enjoyment of women. [...] Of these, in respect to women (strīviṣaya ) much has been said in dramas and in rhetoric, and also in works on Erotics. Therefore it will not be treated of here. But something should be said in brief about hunting, for the diffusion of its knowledge. [...]”.

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This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Strīviṣaya (स्त्रीविषय).—sexual connection.

Derivable forms: strīviṣayaḥ (स्त्रीविषयः).

Strīviṣaya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms strī and viṣaya (विषय).

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

Strīviṣaya (स्त्रीविषय).—[masculine] cohabitation.

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

1) Strīviṣaya (स्त्रीविषय):—[=strī-viṣaya] [from strī] m. ‘w°’s sphere’, sexual connexion, [Viṣṇu-purāṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] mfn. only feminine, [Śāntiśataka]

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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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Partial matches: Vishaya, Vicaya, Stri.

Full-text: Paribhava.

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Women in the Atharva-veda Samhita (by Pranab Jyoti Kalita)

6a. Hymns to Secure the Love of a Woman < [Chapter 2 - The Strīkarmāṇi Hymns of the Atharvaveda]

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