Vardhapana, Vardhāpana: 7 definitions
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Vardhāpana (वर्धापन).—[vardhaṃ chedaṃ karoti, vṛdh ṇic-āp ca tato bhāve lyuṭ]
1) Cutting, dividing.
2) Cutting the umbilical cord, or the ceremony connected with this act.
3) A festival on a birth-day.
4) Any festival in general when wishes for prosperity and other congratulatory expressions are offered; cf. पूर्णपात्र (pūrṇapātra).
Derivable forms: vardhāpanam (वर्धापनम्).
Vardhāpana (वर्धापन) or Varddhāpana.—n.
(-naṃ) 1. Cutting, dividing. 2. The ceremony of cutting the umbilical cord. 3. A festival when good wishes and congratulatory expressions are offered. E. varddh to cut, causal v., lyuṭ aff.
Vardhāpana (वर्धापन).—n. 1. Cutting, dividing. 2. i. e. vardhāpaya (anomal. [Causal.] of vṛdh), + ana; also ºnaka ºna + ka, A festival on a birthday, [Lassen, Anthologia Sanskritica.] ed. 18, 8; [Pañcatantra] ed. orn. 49, 16.
Vardhāpana (वर्धापन).—[neuter] the cutting of the navel-string.
1) Vardhāpana (वर्धापन):—[from vardh] 1. vardhāpana n. (for 2. See [column]2) the act of cutting the umbilical cord, (or) the ceremony in commemoration of that act, [Vetāla-pañcaviṃśatikā; Purāṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] ([probably]) = vardhāpaka, presents distributed at the ceremony of cutting the umbilical cord, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) [from vardha] 2. vardhāpana n. (for 1. See [column]1; possibly 1. and 2. ought not to be separated) a birthday ceremony, festival on a birthday or any festive occasion, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Vardhāpana (वर्धापन):—(wie eben) n.
1) das Abschneiden der Nabelschnur, die Feier an die Erinnerung dieses Tages; Geburtstagsfeier und überhaupt jede Feier, bei der man Jmd langes Leben und Gedeihen anwünschet (also mit Anknüpfung an caus. von 1. vardh) [Tithyāditattva im Śabdakalpadruma] [WEBER, KṚṢṆAJ. 249. 299. 302.] [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 18, 8.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 1038.] evaṃ vardhāpanaṃ vatsarānte vai janmavāsare . vyatīteṣu ca māseṣu bālānāṃ bālavṛddhaye .. [SKANDA-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher] pūjayenmātṛpitarau bālavardhāpane sati [BHAVIṢYOTTARA-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher] vardhāpanaṃ nāma pratisaṃvatsaraṃ janmadineṣu puruṣasya kriyamāṇamabhyaṅgādikaṃ mahārāṣṭradeśe prasiddham [SMṚTYARTHASĀGARA] (Citate im Glossar zu [Lassen’s Anthologie] nach [AUFRECHT][?). Scholiast zu Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 358, Nalopākhyāna] fälschlich vārdhāyana [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 7.] —
2) wohl = vardhāpaka
2) [Medinīkoṣa k. 200] (vardhāpaṇa gedr.).
Vardhāpana (वर्धापन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Vaḍḍhavaṇa, Vaddhāvaṇa.
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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