The Sanskrit term Upaspṛś can be transliterated into English as Upasprs or Upasprish, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Upaspṛś (उपस्पृश्).—6 P.

1) To touch (water), bathe; स्नानमुपस्पृशन्ती (snānamupaspṛśantī) K.172; तथेत्युपस्पृश्य जलं पवित्रम् (tathetyupaspṛśya jalaṃ pavitram) R.5.59,18.31; उपस्पृश्य मणिकर्णिकायाम् (upaspṛśya maṇikarṇikāyām) Daśakumāracarita 95,11; Manusmṛti 11.133.

2) To wash or rinse the mouth (or teeth); to sip water (and eject it); स नद्यवस्कन्दमुपास्पृशच्च (sa nadyavaskandamupāspṛśacca) Bhaṭṭikāvya 2.11; K.1; Manusmṛti 2.53,58;5.63; Y.3.3,1.18. नदीमुपस्प्रष्टुमिवावतीर्णः (nadīmupaspraṣṭumivāvatīrṇaḥ) Pañcharātram 1.15.

3) To sprinkle; अद्भिः प्राणानुपस्पृशेत् (adbhiḥ prāṇānupaspṛśet) Manusmṛti 4.143.

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

Upaspṛś (उपस्पृश्).—touch, stroke, caress; [with] apas etc. = [Simple] (also ± [instrumental] of the water & ± [accusative] of the touched parts of the body).

Upaspṛś is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms upa and spṛś (स्पृश्).

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

1) Upaspṛś (उपस्पृश्):—[=upa-spṛś] 1. upa-√spṛś [Parasmaipada] -spṛśati, to touch above, reach up to, touch, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda];

—to touch softly, caress, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Aitareya-brāhmaṇa; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Mahābhārata] etc. ;

— (with or without apaḥ or jalam etc.) to touch water (for ablution), wash, bathe (as a religious ceremony);

—to sip water (from the palm of the hand; it is not the custom to spit out the water after sipping it), [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra] & [Āśvalāyana-gṛhya-sūtra; Mahābhārata; Yājñavalkya; Manu-smṛti] etc.;

—to touch certain parts of one’s body ([accusative]) with water ([instrumental case]), [Manu-smṛti iv, 143];—(also without the [instrumental case]), [Manu-smṛti v, 138];—(or without the [accusative]), [Mahābhārata] :

—[Causal] -sparśayati, to cause to touch water or wash the hands, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa iii.]

2) [=upa-spṛś] 2. upa-spṛś mfn. touching, [Atharva-veda xx, 127, 2]

3) [v.s. ...] f. (k) ([scilicet] stuti) ‘the touching or affecting verse’, Name of the verse, [Ṛg-veda x, 22, 13.]

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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: Sprish, Upa.

Starts with: Upasprishana, Upasprishta, Upasprishya.

Ends with: Paryupasprish, Pratyupasprish, Samupasprish.

Full-text: Upasparshana, Upasprishya, Upasparshin, Pratyupasprish, Upasprishta, Udaka, Paryupasprish, Samupasprish, Upasparsha, Sprish.

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