Anugrahasarga, Anugraha-Sarga: 4 definitions
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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexAnugrahasarga (अनुग्रहसर्ग).—Divided into four, viparyaya, śakti, tuṣṭi, and siddhi; accounts for vivṛtta, and the varttamāna (present) in cycle; this is the fifth sarga or creation.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 6. 57, 67-9; 9. 117.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAnugrahasarga (अनुग्रहसर्ग).—creation of feelings or mental conditions.
Derivable forms: anugrahasargaḥ (अनुग्रहसर्गः).
Anugrahasarga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anugraha and sarga (सर्ग). See also (synonyms): anugrahaṇasarga.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnugrahasarga (अनुग्रहसर्ग):—[=anu-graha-sarga] [from anu-graha > anu-grah] m. (in Sāṅkhya [philosophy]) creation of the feelings or mental conditions.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnugrahasarga (अनुग्रहसर्ग):—[tatpurusha compound] m.
(-rgaḥ) (In the Sāṅkhya philosophy.) The creation of mental conditions; in some of the Purāṇas it is considered as an eigth creation, in others as a fifth, and subdivided into viparyaya, aśakti, siddhi and tuṣṭi qq. vv. See also pratyayasarga. E. anugraha (perhaps in the sense of ‘feeling’ in general) and sarga.
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: Anugraha, Sarga.
Full-text: Vaikritasarga, Anugrahanasarga, Anugraha, Sarga.
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The Padma Purana (by N.A. Deshpande)
Chapter 3 - Kinds of Creation < [Section 1 - Sṛṣṭi-khaṇḍa (section on creation)]
The Brahmanda Purana (by G.V. Tagare)
Chapter 5 - The Creation of the Universe < [Section 1 - Prakriyā-pāda (section on rites)]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 70 - Various Creations (sṛṣṭi-vistāra) < [Section 1 - Uttarabhāga]