Upadha, Upadhā, Upādhā: 17 definitions
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In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
Upadhā (उपधा).—One of the technical terms which have been used in the uṇādi-sūtras;—Upadhā means the penultimate letter of a word. It is not altogether a new term in the uṇādi-sūtras. In the same sense Yāska uses it in the Nirukta. Pāṇini defines it in the sūtra ‘alo’ntyāt purva upadhā’ which means the last but one letter. The term in the sense of a penult has been used in a bout eight uṇādi-sūtras.
Upadhā (उपधा).—Penultimate letter, as defined in the rule अलोन्त्यात्पूर्वं उपघा (alontyātpūrvaṃ upaghā) P. I. 1.65, e.g. see ह्रस्वोपध, दीर्घोपध, लघूपध, अकारोपध (hrasvopadha, dīrghopadha, laghūpadha, akāropadha) etc.; lit. उपधीयते निधीयते सा (upadhīyate nidhīyate sā) that which is placed near the last letter.
Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.
India history and geography
Upa-dhā.—(CII 1), cf. hīta-sukham=upadadhyuḥ; to bring [welfare and happiness to the people]. Note: upa-dhā is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
upādha (उपाध).—f (upādhi S) A mischievous, annoying, disquieting (person, affair, occurrence); a bore or pest; an encumbrance or a clog; a wearisome sickness; a vexatious dispute; a trouble, scrape, difficulty, predicament.
upādha (उपाध).—f A mischievous, annoying, dis- quieting (person, affair, occurrence), a bore or pest. A trouble.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Upadhā (उपधा).—3 U.
1) To place or lay upon, place under or in; अधिजानु बाहुमुपधाय (adhijānu bāhumupadhāya) Śiśupālavadha 9.54; उपहितं शिशिरापगमश्रिया मुकुलजालमशोभत किंशुके (upahitaṃ śiśirāpagamaśriyā mukulajālamaśobhata kiṃśuke) R.9.31; Bhaṭṭikāvya 15.47; Kumārasambhava 1.44; हृदि चैनामुपधातुमर्हसि (hṛdi caināmupadhātumarhasi) R.8.77 treasure up-lay to heart; Manusmṛti 4.54; उपहितसूक्ष्मग्रन्थिना (upahitasūkṣmagranthinā) Ś.1.19.
2) To place, lay; वामहस्तोपहितवदना (vāmahastopahitavadanā) Ś.4 resting on.
3) (a) To place near; अक्ष्णोर्मुखेन्दुमुपधेहि (akṣṇormukhendumupadhehi) Mv.4.56. (b) To put to or yoke (as a horse to a carriage &c.); उप त्मनि दधानो धुर्याशून् (upa tmani dadhāno dhuryāśūn).
4) To cause, bring on or produce; नरः कृतान्तोपहितां (naraḥ kṛtāntopahitāṃ) (daśāṃ) प्रपद्यते (prapadyate) Mṛcchakaṭika 1.53.
5) To impose, entrust with, charge with (as a duty); तदुपहितकुटुम्बः (tadupahitakuṭumbaḥ) R.7.71.
6) To lay a command upon, enjoin, instruct in (with acc.); स्त्रीषु नृत्यमुपधाय शिक्षयन् (strīṣu nṛtyamupadhāya śikṣayan) R.19.36.
7) To lie down upon, use as a pillow; उपधाय वामभुजमशयिषि (upadhāya vāmabhujamaśayiṣi) Daśakumāracarita 111.
8) To apply, employ, lay or bestow upon, क्रिया हि वस्तूपहिता प्रसीदति (kriyā hi vastūpahitā prasīdati) R.3.29.
9) To place over, cover, conceal.
1) To add, place in addition.
11) To communicate, impart, give, bestow; उपहितशोभा (upahitaśobhā) Bhaṭṭikāvya 2.55.
12) To locate; एतदुपहितं चैतन्यम् (etadupahitaṃ caitanyam) Vedānta S.
13) (In gram.) To precede without the intervention of another syllable.
14) To deceive (vañc); स्वयं चापहृता भृत्या ये चाप्युपहिताः परैः (svayaṃ cāpahṛtā bhṛtyā ye cāpyupahitāḥ paraiḥ) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.111.77.
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Upadhā (उपधा).—
1) Imposition, forgery, fraud, deceit, trick, pretence; उपधाभिश्च यः कश्चित्परद्रव्यं हरेन्नरः (upadhābhiśca yaḥ kaścitparadravyaṃ harennaraḥ) Manusmṛti 8.193.
2) Trial or test of honesty, (bhedopajāpau upadhā dharmādyairyatparī- kṣaṇam); (said to be of 4 kinds:1 loyalty, 2 disinterestedness, 3 continence, 4 courage i. e. dharmopadhā Religious allurement, arthopadhā Monetary allurement, kāmopadhā Love allurement, bhayopadhā Allurement under the pressure of fear. 'bhiyā dharmārthakāmaiśca parīkṣā yā tu sopadhā' ityabhidhāna- cintāmaṇiḥ); (śodhayet) धर्मोपधाभिर्विप्रांश्च सर्वाभिः सचिवान् पुनः (dharmopadhābhirviprāṃśca sarvābhiḥ sacivān punaḥ) Kālikā P. उपधाभिः शौचाशौचज्ञानममात्यानाम् (upadhābhiḥ śaucāśaucajñānamamātyānām) | Kau. A.1.1; अमात्यानुपधातीनान् (amātyānupadhātīnān) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 15.5.14.
3) A means or expedient; अयशोभिदुरा लोके कोपधा महणादृते (ayaśobhidurā loke kopadhā mahaṇādṛte) Śiśupālavadha 19.58.
4) (In gram.) A penultimate letter (antyādvarṇātpūrvaṃ upadhā). अलोन्त्यात् पूर्व उपधा (alontyāt pūrva upadhā) P.I.1.65.
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Upādhā (उपाधा).—3 U.
1) To place near or upon.
2) To offer, give, impart. अपि नः स्वर्गतिं सूक्ष्मामुपाधास्यदधीश्वरः (api naḥ svargatiṃ sūkṣmāmupādhāsyadadhīśvaraḥ) Bhāg. 1.28.11.
3) To put on, wear.
2) To create, cause, produce; कोपोपाहितबाष्प (kopopāhitabāṣpa) Bhartṛhari 3.85; Gītagovinda 1.
5) To render, make, effect.
6) To keep, hold.
7) To seduce (a woman); Rām.
Upadhā (उपधा).—f.
(-dhā) 1. A false pretence. 2. Trial or test of honesty, &c. of four kinds, of loyalty, disinterestedness, continence, and courage. 3. A penultimate letter. E. upa, dhā having, from dhā to have, with aṅ and ṭāp affs.
Upadhā (उपधा).—[upa-dhā], f. 1. A false pretence, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 193. 2. Deceit, [Hitopadeśa] iii. [distich] 16.
Upadhā (उपधा).—[feminine] imposition, fraud; penultimate letter ([grammar]).
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Upādhā (उपाधा).—put on, place upon ([locative]); [Middle] seize, take. nirā take out or away. payā lay about, surround.
Upādhā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms upā and dhā (धा).
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Upadhā (उपधा).—C.[Middle] = [Simple][Causative]
Upadhā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms upa and dhā (धा).
1) Upadhā (उपधा):—[=upa-dhā] 1. upa-√dhā [Parasmaipada] [Ātmanepada] -dadhāti, -dhatte, to place or lay upon, place near to, put on or into;
—to place, lay, put, [Ṛg-veda x, 87, 3; 145, 6; Atharva-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Manu-smṛti; Raghuvaṃśa] etc.;
—to put to, yoke (horses), [Ṛg-veda iv, 29, 4];
—to give or make over, hand over (knowledge), teach, [Raghuvaṃśa];
—to impose, lay upon, commit, consign, [Raghuvaṃśa];
—to place under one’s self, lie down upon, [Rāmāyaṇa];
—to place in addition, add, connect, [Aitareya-brāhmaṇa; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Lāṭyāyana] etc.;
—to communicate, cause to share in;
—to use, employ;
— (in [grammar]) to lie or be placed close to, precede without the intervention of another syllable, [Ṛgveda-prātiśākhya] etc.;
—to cause to rest upon or depend on [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] 2. upa-dhā f. imposition, forgery, fraud, deceit, trick, false pretence, [Mahābhārata; Manu-smṛti; Rāmāyaṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] trial or test of honesty (of four kinds, viz. of loyalty, disinterestedness, continence, and courage), [Kāmandakīya-nītisāra; Bhaṭṭi-kāvya; Śiśupāla-vadha] etc.
4) [v.s. ...] (in [grammar]) a penultimate letter, [Pāṇini; Ṛgveda-prātiśākhya; Atharvaveda-prātiśākhya; Nirukta, by Yāska] etc.
5) [v.s. ...] condition, reservation, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) Upādhā (उपाधा):—[=upā-√dhā] [Parasmaipada] [Ātmanepada] -dadhāti, -dhatte, to place upon, put on [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa x; Bhāgavata-purāṇa];
—to seize, lay hold of, take up, [Mahābhārata];
—to keep, hold back, [Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa ii];
—to seduce (a woman), [Rāmāyaṇa]
Upadhā (उपधा):—[upa-dhā] (dhā) 1. f. False pretence; trial of honesty, courage or ability; a penultimate letter.
[Sanskrit to German]
Upadhā (उपधा) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Uvahā.
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.
Nepali dictionary
Upadhā (उपधा):—adj. penultimate;
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Pali-English dictionary
upadhā (ဥပဓာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[upa+dhā+kvi．ka．629．nīti,sutta．1237．alopūva upadhā．pāṇini,1．1．65-．antyādapūvo vaṇa upadhā ．eiea asiddhantakomudī．249]
[ဥပ+ဓာ+ကွိ။ ကစ္စည်း။ ၆၂၉။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။ ၁၂၃၇။ အလောန္တျာတ်ပူဝ ဥပဓာ။ ပါဏိနိ၊ ၁။ ၁။ ၆၅-သုတ်။ အန္တျာဒလးပူဝေါ ဝဏ ဥပဓာသည်း သျာတ်။ ယင်း၏ အဖွင့်သိဒ္ဓန္တကောမုဒီ။ ၂၄၉]
[Pali to Burmese]
upadhā—
(Burmese text): ဥပဓာမည်သော အက္ခရာ၊ အဆုံးအက္ခရာမှ ရှေ့၌တည်သော အက္ခရာ၊ (ဥပမာအားဖြင့် ဂဟ-ဓာတ်၌ ဂ၏မှီရာ အ-သရသည် ဥပဓာ မည်၏)။
(Auto-Translation): The letter that is the initial letter, and the letter that is at the beginning before the final letter (for example, in the compound "Gah-Dha", the letter "G" represents the initial letter).
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Kvi, Upa, Dha, Ta, Dhavala.
Starts with (+18): Upadhabhrita, Upadhalopa, Upadhalopin, Upadhamana, Upadhan, Upadhana, Upadhanaghatika, Upadhanaka, Upadhanalinga, Upadhanavalamba, Upadhanavidhi, Upadhaneti, Upadhani, Upadhanika, Upadhaniya, Upadhanna, Upadhanya, Upadhapana, Upadhapentha, Upadhara.
Full-text (+21): Upadhi, Upadhana, Upadhashuci, Atyupadha, Upadhabhrita, Upadhalopin, Upadhaya, Upadhalopa, Anupadha, Upadhiyanti, Svaropadha, Upadhayin, Pratyupadha, Upadhayoga, Upatai, Bhavyupadha, Upadhanaka, Upadheya, Upadhaneti, Upadhanavidhi.
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