Akasmat, Akasmāt: 16 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Akasmāt (अकस्मात्):—(3. a + kasmāt Abl. von kim) gaṇa cārvādi adv.

1) plötzlich, unerwartet [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1532.] akasmāccakṣuṣaḥ prāptirdyumatsenasya [Sāvitryupākhyāna 6, 33.] akasmādabhavadruddhaṃ vyāsaktamiva kenacit [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 226.] akasmācca dadarśa dvāri rākṣasam [262.] kimayamakasmādvimānacāriṇāmākāśe karuṇadhvaniḥ śrūyate [Vikramorvaśī 4, 1.] —

2) ohne Grund, ohne Veranlassung [Nalopākhyāna 21, 19.] nākasmādapriyaṃ vadet [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 132.] nākasmādyuvatī vṛddhaṃ keśeṣvākṛṣya cumbati . patiṃ nirdayamāliṅgya heturatra bhaviṣyati .. [Hitopadeśa I, 102.] [Śākuntala 45,] [Scholiast] mit kāraṇaṃ vinā pleonastisch: nirbhājayenna caivaikamakasmātkāraṇaṃ vinā [Kātyāyana im DĀY. 95.] —

3) zufällig: akasmādāgantunā saha viśvāso na yuktaḥ [Hitopadeśa 18, 2.] bhāvayavyasya putraḥ svanayo nāma rājānucaraiḥ saṃkrīḍamāno kasmātkakṣīvato ntikamāsasāda [Itihāsa] bei ROSEN zu [Ṛgveda 18, 1.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Akasmāt (अकस्मात्):—Adv. ohne wahrnehmbare Veranlassung , unerwartet , mir Nichts dir Nichts [111,22.121,19.125,21.] [Gautama's Dharmaśāstra 9,7,51.]

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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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