Ardhasana, Ardhāsana, Ardha-asana, Ardhashana, Ardhaśana, Ardha-shana: 9 definitions
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Ardhasana has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Ardhaśana can be transliterated into English as Ardhasana or Ardhashana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchArdhaśana (अर्धशन):—= ardhāśana (a + aśana) n. eine halbe Mahlzeit [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma]
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Ardhāsana (अर्धासन):—(a + āsana) n. halber Sitz; einem Gaste die andere Hälfte des Sitzes anbieten gilt für eine grosse Ehre: mama hi divaukasāṃ samakṣamardhāsanopaveśitasya [Śākuntala 97, 10.] ardhāsanaṃ gotrabhido dhitaṣṭhau [Raghuvaṃśa 6, 73.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 17, 110.] Nach der [Dharaṇīkoṣa im Śabdakalpadruma] :
1) snehadāna . —
2) akutsana .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungArdhaśana (अर्धशन):—n. = ardhāśana.
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Ardhāśana (अर्धाशन):—n. halbe Mahlzeit [Galano's Wörterbuch]
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Ardhāsana (अर्धासन):—n. Hälfte des Sitzes (wird dem Gaste als Ehrenbezeugung angeboten).
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: Shana, Ardha, Asana.
Ends with: Adhyardhashana.
Full-text: Arddhashana, Asana, Adhishtha, Pururava.
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