Avamardana: 8 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchAvamardana (अवमर्दन):—(wie eben)
1) adj. bedrängend: śatrubalāvamardanaḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 35, 114.] —
2) n. a) das Reiben: hastapādāva [Pañcatantra 34, 12.] — b) das Bedrängen: rāmaraṇāva [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 25, 26.] indrajidrathāva [6, 69], in der Unterschr.
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Avamardana (अवमर्दन):—
1) füge hart mitnehmend, aufreibend hinzu. —
2) b) füge hartes Mitnehmen, Aufreiben hinzu. dviṣatām [Mahābhārata 3, 12313.] — Vgl. grahāvamardana .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungAvamardana (अवमर्दन):——
1) Adj. aufreibend , hart mitnehmend. —
2) n. — a) das Reiben. — b) das Aufreiben , hartes Mitnehmen.
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: Mardana, Ava.
Starts with: Avamardanagata, Avamardanagrasa.
Ends with: Anavamardana, Daityadanavamardana, Grahavamardana, Yavamardana.
Full-text (+2): Avamarda, Grahavamardana, Avamardanagata, Avamardanagrasa, Pindi, Nirodhagrasa, Nirodha, Pindikrita, Nirodhagata, Grasa, Danda, Patana, Dehin, Caturangabala, Shastra, Asi, Pipasa, Vyadhi, Kshudh, Pradhana.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Act 10.2: Samantaraśmi greets the Buddha Śākyamuni < [Chapter XV - The Arrival of the Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions]
The Agni Purana (by N. Gangadharan)
Brihat Samhita (by N. Chidambaram Iyer)