Asura, Asūra, Āsura, Asurā: 38 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchAsura (असुर):—
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Asūra (असूर):—(von 3. a + sūri) n. Abwesenheit eines Soma-Bereiters: a.ū.e santi sū.ayaḥ [Ṛgveda 8, 10, 4.]
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Āsura (आसुर):—(von asura)
1) adj. f. ī nach der doppelten Bedeutung von asura a) geistig, göttlich: tanū.apāducyate.garbha āsu.aḥ [Ṛgveda 3, 29, 11.] von Varuṇa [5, 85, 5.] ā.u.ī mā.ā (vgl. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 4, 124]) [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 11, 69.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3, 22, 4.] — b) zu den bösen Geistern gehörig, ihnen geweiht, asurisch, dämonisch: yattvā sūrya.svarbhānu.tama.āvidhyadāsu.aḥ [Ṛgveda 5, 40, 5. 9.] namucāvāsu.e sacā [10, 131, 4.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 19, 34.] kṛ.yāḥ [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 8, 5, 9.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 5, 3, 2, 2. 4, 1, 9.] prajāḥ [13, 8, 1, 5. 2, 1.] mantra [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 10, 14.] tasmādapyadyehādadānamaśraddadhānamayajamānamāhurāsuro vateti [Chāndogyopaniṣad 8, 8, 5.] vivāha [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 21. 24. 25. 9, 197.] dharma [3, 31.] sva [11, 20.] pura [Arjunasamāgama 10, 30.] janāḥ [Bhagavadgītā 16, 7.] bhāva [7, 15.] prakṛti [9, 12.] saṃpad [16, 4.] yoni [20.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 113, 19.] māyā [Mahābhārata 3, 765.] tamas [Daśaratha’s Tod 1, 2.] āsuravipralambhanāni (Sch.: = akṛtyacaraṇāni) [Daśakumāracarita 64, 3] v. u. —
2) m. a) = asura ein Asura, gaṇa prajñādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 4, 38.] f. āsurī [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 1, 24, 1. 2. 7, 38, 2.] [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2, 22] (dieselbe Belegstelle ist aus Versehen u. asura 4, a angegeben worden). — b) = āsuro vivāha (s. u. 1, b) [Śabdakalpadruma] Bei dieser Heirathsform erkauft der Bräutigam die Braut, indem er nach [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 31] den Verwandten und der Braut soviel giebt, als er vermag. — c) pl. die Sterne der südlichen Hemisphäre [Sūryasiddhānta] [Kālasaṃkalita 355.] [Haughton.] — d) ein Fürst der Asura (eines Kriegerstammes) gaṇa paśvādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 3, 117]; vgl. [?Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 2 zu 4, 1, 177.] —
3) f. rī a) Chirurgie [Vaidyaka] und [Śabdacandrikā im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) schwarzer Senf, Sinapis ramosa Roxb., [Amarakoṣa 2, 9, 19.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 419.] —
4) n. a) Blut [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 621.] — b) schwarzes Salz (viḍlavaṇa) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma]
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Asura (असुर):—
2) b) asurāṇāṃ chandāṃsi, asuracchandāṃsi [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 3, 275.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 74. fg. 114. 116. 128.] — d) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 79.] — g) pl. Name einer Schule [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 275.] —
4) a) [Śāṅkhāyana’s Brāhmaṇa 23, 4.] die Stelle [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2, 22] zu streichen, da hier āsurī (vgl. u. āsura 2, a) vorauszusetzen ist. — b) lies ramosa st. racemosa.
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Āsura (आसुर):—
1) a) āsurī māyā auch [Kāṭhaka-Recension 16, 7.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 4, 1, 9, 2.] — b) chandāṃsi (Gegens. daivyāni) [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 16, 2.] gāyatrī [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 230. 232.] vivāha [ĀŚV. GṚHY. 1, 6, 6.] eines Schule (wohl von āsuri) [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 259.] —
2) a) svarbhānurvā āsuraḥ sūryaṃ tamasāvidhyat [Kāṭhaka-Recension 11, 5.] rāvaṇa āsura [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 297.] —
3) c) (sc. dvār) Bez. des penis (meḍhra) oder vielmehr der Harnröhre [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 25, 52. 29, 14.] vulva [BURN.]
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Asura (असुर):—
1) c) [Z. 5 lies 63, 7. 3 Stenzler 63, 7, 3.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungAsura (असुर):——
1) Adj. geistig , unkörperlich , göttlich. —
2) m. — a) Geist , der höchste Geist (insbes. von Varuṇa). — b) böser Geist , Gespenst , Dämon , Widersacher der Götter. — c) Bez. Rāhu's. — d) *die Sonne. — e) *Wolke. — f) Pl. Nomen proprium — α) *eines Kriegerstammes. — β) einer Schule. —
3) *f. asurā — a) Nacht. — b) Zodiakalzeichen. —
4) f. asurī — a) ein weiblicher Unhold. — b) *Sinapis_ramosa Roxb.
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Āsura (आसुर):—1. —
1) Adj. (f. ī) — a) geistig , göttlich. — b) asurisch , dämonisch. —
2) m. — a) ein Asura. — b) *ein Fürst der Asura. — c) Pl. die Sterne der südlichen Hemisphäre. —
3) f. ī — a) weiblicher Dämon. — b) Chirurgie. — c) (sc. dvār) Harnröhre. — d) *Sinapis_ramosa Roxb. —
4) *n. — a) Blut. — b) Sochalsalz.
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Āsura (आसुर):—2. Adj. von Asuri stammend [Indische studien von Weber 3,259.]
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Shrimad Bhagavad-gita (by Narayana Gosvami)
Verse 16.6 < [Chapter 16 - Daivāsura-sampada-yoga]
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The Markandeya Purana (by Frederick Eden Pargiter)
Canto LXXXIX - The Devī-Māhātmya: The slaying of Niśumbha
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 2.7.6 < [Chapter 7 - The Meeting of Gadādhara and Puṇḍarīka]
Verse 2.13.281 < [Chapter 13 - The Deliverance of Jagāi and Mādhāi]
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Women in the Atharva-veda Samhita (by Pranab Jyoti Kalita)
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