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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Avaskand (अवस्कन्द्).—1 P.

1) To attack, storm, assault; overpower, overwhelm; छायामप्यवस्कन्दितुम् (chāyāmapyavaskanditum) Mv.3; प्रभुरिव माम- वस्कन्दयितुम् (prabhuriva māma- vaskandayitum) ibid. to attack or insult; पुरीमवस्कन्द लुनीहि नन्दनम् (purīmavaskanda lunīhi nandanam) Śiśupālavadha 1.51; स्नेहावस्कन्नहृदया (snehāvaskannahṛdayā) Rām. affected.

2) To spring or leap down.

3) To pour out.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Avaskand (अवस्कन्द्).—spring or spurt down; spring towards or upon, attack, overpower.

Avaskand is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ava and skand (स्कन्द्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Avaskand (अवस्कन्द्):—[=ava-√skand] ([indeclinable participle] -skandya) to jump down from ([ablative]), [Bhāgavata-purāṇa];

—to approach hastening from ([ablative]), [ṢaḍvBr.];

—to storm, assault (as a city etc.), [Rāmāyaṇa; Mālavikāgnimitra etc.]

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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: Skand, Ava.

Starts with: Avaskanda, Avaskandana, Avaskandapradana, Avaskandhaka, Avaskandin, Avaskandita, Avaskandiya.

Ends with: Abhyavaskand, Samavaskand.

Full-text: Avaskanda, Avaskandin, Avaskandana, Paryavaskanda, Abhyavaskand, Samavaskand, Avaskanna, Avaskandita.

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