Svarasamkrama, Svarasaṃkrama, Svara-samkrama: 4 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Svarasaṃkrama (स्वरसंक्रम).—

1) a transition or succession of notes; तं तस्य स्वरसंक्रमं मृदुगिरः श्लिष्टं च तन्त्रीस्वनम् (taṃ tasya svarasaṃkramaṃ mṛdugiraḥ śliṣṭaṃ ca tantrīsvanam) Mṛcchakaṭika 3.5.

2) the gamut.

Derivable forms: svarasaṃkramaḥ (स्वरसंक्रमः).

Svarasaṃkrama is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms svara and saṃkrama (संक्रम).

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

Svarasaṃkrama (स्वरसंक्रम).—[masculine] transition of sounds or notes.

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

Svarasaṃkrama (स्वरसंक्रम):—[=svara-saṃkrama] [from svara > svṛ] m. succession of tones (applied to the musical scale, [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]), rise and fall of the voice, modulation of tone, [Mṛcchakaṭikā]

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Svarasamkrama 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.

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