The Sanskrit term Utkṣepa can be transliterated into English as Utksepa or Utkshepa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Utkshep.

In Hinduism

Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: Wisdom Library: Nāṭya-śāstra

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप, “raising”) refers to a specific gesture (āṅgika) made with the eyebrows (bhrū), according to the Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 8. These gestures of the eyelids (puṭa) are supposed to be performed in accordance with the corresponding gestures of the eyeballs (tārā) and the eyelids (puṭa). These gestures form a part of the histrionic representation (abhinaya).

Source: archive.org: Natya Shastra

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप, “raising”).—A type of gesture (āṅgika) made with the eyebrows (bhrū);—Instructions: raising of eyebrows simultaneously or one by one. Uses: in anger (roṣa), deliberation, passion (harṣa), sportiveness, in seeing and hearing only one eyebrow is raised, and in surprise, joy and violent anger both the eyebrows are raised up.

Source: archive.org: Illustrations of Indian Music and Dance in Western Indian Style (natya)

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप) refers to “raising the eye-brows”, and is classified as one of the seven movements of the eye-brows, which forms a part of upāṅga (minor body-parts) in Nāṭyaśāstra. Utkṣepa can be used in showing anger, doubt, play, pranks, hearing, sight, wonder and pleasure.

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Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: archive.org: Vagbhata’s Ashtanga Hridaya Samhita (first 5 chapters)

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप) refers to “yak-tail fans”, mentioned in verse 3.39 of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Sūtrasthāna) by Vāgbhaṭa.—Accordingly, “from him whose mind is at ease, (who is) moist with sandal [...]—(from him) wet-cloth, Palmyra-stalk, large lotus-leaf, and yak-tail fans [viz., utkṣepa] (which), gently raised, (are) showering water and offering cool wind; [...]”.

Note: Utkṣepa has been omitted in Tibetan; Indu equates it to cāmara (“yak-tail fan”).

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: archive.org: Trisastisalakapurusacaritra

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप) refers to a “rain” or “waving” (of clothes”).—The Ardha-Māgadhī Koṣa interprets celotkṣepa as a ‘rain of clothes’.—Hemacandra makes it plain in other passages that he does not mean a shower of clothes, but a waving of garments. [...] One MS has the reading celaknopa [celaknopam], which has some appeal.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

utkṣēpa (उत्क्षेप).—m utkṣēpaṇa n Throwing up, out, away. Upheavai.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप).—a. Throwing up, tossing.

-paḥ 1 Throwing or tossing up; पक्ष्मोत्क्षेप (pakṣmotkṣepa) Meghadūta 49.

2) That which is thrown or tossed up; बिन्दूत्क्षेपान् पिपासुः (bindūtkṣepān pipāsuḥ) M.2.13.

3) Sending, despatching.

4) Throwing away, rejecting.

5) Vomiting.

6) The region above the temples (dual).

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

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप).—m.

(-paḥ) 1. Throwing or tossing up. 2. Throwing away. 3. Sending, dispatching. 4. Bringing up, vomiting. E. ut before kṣipi to throw, ghañ aff.

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

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप).—i. e. ud-kṣip + a, m. 1. Tossing up, [Meghadūta, (ed. Gildemeister.)] 48. 2. Stretching out, [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] [distich] 126.

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

1) Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप):—[=ut-kṣepa] [from ut-kṣip] m. throwing or tossing up, raising, lifting up, [Meghadūta; Suśruta] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] throwing away

3) [v.s. ...] sending, despatching

4) [v.s. ...] bringing up, vomiting

5) [v.s. ...] expanding (the wings), [Suśruta]

6) [v.s. ...] Name of a country

7) [v.s. ...] also of a man, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

8) [v.s. ...] a [particular] mode of lengthening vowels, [Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa], [Scholiast or Commentator]

9) Utkṣepā (उत्क्षेपा):—[=ut-kṣepā] [from ut-kṣepa > ut-kṣip] f. Name of a woman, [Kāśikā-vṛtti on Pāṇini 4-1, 112.]

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

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप):—[utkṣe+pa] (paḥ) 1. m. Throwing up.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Ukkheva, Uccheva.

[Sanskrit to German]

Utkshepa 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Utkṣepa (उत्क्षेप) [Also spelled utkshep]:—([ṇa]) (nm) ejection; throwing up.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Utkṣēpa (ಉತ್ಕ್ಷೇಪ):—[noun] the act of throwing upwards; projection upwards by force.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Kshepa, Ut.

Starts with: Utkshepaka, Utkshepalipi, Utkshepam, Utkshepamapaka, Utkshepamapana, Utkshepana, Utkshepanam, Utkshepanem, Utkshepanigraha, Utkshepaniya, Utkshepau, Utkshepavijnana.

Ends with: Autkshepa, Celotkshepa, Pratyutkshepa, Samutkshepa.

Full-text: Ukkheva, Autkshepa, Uccheva, Utkshepalipi, Utkshepau, Utkshepam, Prakshepalipi, Utkshipti, Utkshep, Samutkshepana, Nikshepalipi, Dhras, Samutkshepa, Avarta, Vikshepa, Bhru, Nikshepa.

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