Avasana, Avasāna, Āvasāna, Āvāsana: 20 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchAvasāna (अवसान):—1. (von sā, syati mit ava) n.
1) Ort des Absteigens, Einkehr, Ruheort, Aufenthalt: ya.o dadātyava.ānamasmai [Ṛgveda 10, 14, 9.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 18, 2, 37.] i.amucchreyo va.āna.āgām [19, 14, 1.] athāsyedaṃ mānuṣaṃ prayāṇaṃ yadidaṃ prayāti mānuṣamavasānaṃ yadavasyati [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 6, 8, 1, 3. 2, 6, 2, 7. 6, 7, 4, 8. 7, 1, 1, 3. 4.] navāvasāna [12, 4, 3, 10. -] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 43.] —
2) Beschluss, Ende [Amarakoṣa 3, 3, 39. 3, 4, 14, 70.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 29.] ādimadhyāvasāneṣu [Śrutabodha] [?(BR.) 4.] brahmārambhe vasāne ca [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 71.] dohāva [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 23.] pūjāva [Kathāsaritsāgara 20, 102.] vāṣpāva [Pañcatantra 142, 19.] uṣṇakālāva [174, 10.] dināva [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 45.] rātreḥ [Amarakoṣa 3, 5, 18.] tṛṣṇāmburāśerna hi jagati gataḥ kaścidevāvasānam [Bhartṛhari 1, 69.] sa cāyamaṅgulīyakadarśanāvasānaḥ und dieser (Fluch) hat durch das Erblicken des Ringes sein Ende erreicht [Śākuntala 111, 6.] am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 95.] —
3) Tod [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 324.] mūlapuruṣāvasāne [Śākuntala 91, 13.] puṃso vasānaṃ vrajato pi [Pañcatantra II, 123.] —
4) Grenze [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 962.] —
5) Ende eines Wortes; der letzte Bestandtheil eines zusammeng. Wortes ( [Raghuvaṃśa 18, 9]); das Ende eines Satzes, Pause [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 29.] [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 1, 3.] [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 3, 31. 4, 21. 7, 1.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 4, 110. 8, 3, 15. 4, 56. 47, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 3.] —
6) das Ende einer Verszeile und die dadurch gebildete Verszeile selbst: ekāvasānā, dvyavasānā (ṛk) Distichon u. s. w. häufig in [Anukramaṇikā des Atharvaveda] [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 3, 119.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 9, 13, 29. 19, 7, 4.]
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Avasāna (अवसान):—2. (3. a + va von vas, vaste) adj. sich nicht bekleidend [Ṛgveda 3, 1, 6.]
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Āvasāna (आवसान):—adj. = avasānamabhijano sya gaṇa takṣaśilādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 93.]
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Avasāna (अवसान):—1.
1) [Mahābhārata 5, 934. 2595.] —
2) dināvasāne [Sāhityadarpana 307] so v. a. wenn ein ganzer Tag darüber hingeht. —
7) Nomen proprium einer Oertlichkeit gaṇa takṣaśilādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 93.] — Vgl. āvasāna und gadāvasāna .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungAvasāna (अवसान):—1. n. (adj. Comp. f. ā) —
1) Ort der Einkehr , Ruheort. —
2) das zu Ende Gehen , Schluss , Ende. —
3) Lebensende , Tod. —
4) *Grenze. —
5) Ende eines Wortes ; der letzte Bestandtheil eines Compositums ; Ende eines Satzes , Pause. —
6) Ende einer Verszeile und die dadurch gebildete Verszeile selbst. —
7) *Nomen proprium einer Oertlichkeit.
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Avasāna (अवसान):—2. Adj. unbekleidet.
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Partial matches: Ava, A, Shana, Vasana.
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