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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Turāyaṇa (तुरायण).—

1) Non-attachment to any object or pursuit (asaṃga).

2) A kind of sacrifice; Manusmṛti 6.1.

3) A kind of vow (vrata); Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.13.34.

Derivable forms: turāyaṇam (तुरायणम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Turāyaṇa (तुरायण).—subst. mfn.

(-ṇaḥ-ṇā-ṇaṃ) Attachment to any object or pursuit. adj Attached to any object or pursuit. m.

(-ṇaḥ) A particular sacrifice. E. tura speed, haste, ay to go, affix lyu; speeding towards a given end or in a certain cause: see parāyaṇa.

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

Turāyaṇa (तुरायण).—n. The name of a certain sacrifice or vow, Mahābhārata 13, 4940.

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

Turāyaṇa (तुरायण).—[neuter] a cert. sacrifice.

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

1) Turāyaṇa (तुरायण):—[from tura > tur] 1. turāyaṇa n. ‘Tura’s way’, Name of a sacrifice or vow (modification of the full-moon sacrifice), [Śāṅkhāyana-brāhmaṇa; Śāṅkhāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Pāṇini; Mahābhārata xiii]

2) [v.s. ...] cursory reading, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]

3) [from tur] 2. turāyaṇa m. ([from] ra) Name of a man, [Pravara texts ii, 2, 3] ([Kātyāyana])

4) [from turas-peya] a See, [ib.]

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

Turāyaṇa (तुरायण):—[turā+yaṇa] (ṇaḥ-ṇā-ṇaṃ) 1. m. f. n. Attachment to any object. m. A particular sacrifice. a. Attached to.

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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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Full-text: Taurayanika, Tvarayana, Taura, Turipa, Turi, Turiya, Turya, Ayana.

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