Damb, Ḍamb: 6 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Ḍamb (डम्ब्):—, ḍambayati werfen, schleudern [Vopadeva’s Grammatik] in [DHĀTUP. 32, 132.] — vi [DHĀTUP. 35, 84], n.

1) Jmd nachahmen, es Jmd worin nachthun, Jmd gleich kommen (mit dem acc.): tvayi (d. i. viṣṇau) kāryāntaragate narā iva divaukasaḥ . viḍambayantaḥ krīḍanti līlāṃ tvadbalamāśritāḥ .. [Harivaṃśa 4339.] (tam) ṛturviḍambayāmāsa na punaḥ prāpa tacchriyam [Raghuvaṃśa 4, 17. 13, 29. 16. 11.] vapuḥprakarṣeṇa viḍambiteśvaraḥ [3, 52.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 16, 121.] [Śiśupālavadha 1, 6.] [Kirātārjunīya 5, 46.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 49.] —

2) verdrehen, einem Dinge ein fremdes Aussehen geben: madhyaṃ ca gatvā sa cukūrda bhūpo helāvikāraiḥ saviḍambitāṅgaiḥ [Harivaṃśa 8406.] —

3) verspotten, verhöhnen: viḍambayan śakrabalam [Harivaṃśa 14744.] —

4) zum Narren halten, täuschen, hintergehen: (striyaḥ) saṃmohayanti madayanti viḍambayanti [?(Scholiast 1 zu Prabodhacandrodaja 15, 14:] = anukurvanti, [Scholiast 2] : viḍambana = nānādurgatiprāpaṇa) nirbhartsayanti ramayanti viṣādayanti [Bhartṛhari 1, 21.] tatkiṃ māmasatyavacanena viḍambayasi [Pañcatantra 44, 13.] viḍambayamānāḥ krīḍāyai te vayaṃ prākṛtā iva [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 609.] tatra vairaviśuddhyāśā viḍambayati māmiyam [283.] svamāyayā viḍambamānasya nṛlokam [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 10, 69. 2, 7, 25.] evamātmābhiprāyasaṃbhāviteṣṭajanacittavṛttiḥ prārthayitā viḍambyate [Śākuntala 21, 6.] — Vgl. viḍambana .

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Ḍamb (डम्ब्):—mit vi

1) [MĀLATĪM. 48,17.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 51,169.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10,14,37. 15,19. 60,58.] [Oxforder Handschriften 111,b,1 v. u.] —

2) pāpasiddhyekasaṃtoṣaviḍambitaśivāgamāḥ . pāṣaṇḍinaḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 124, 16.] —

3) loke ṣaḍetāni viḍambitāni ein Gegenstand des Spottes [Spr. 2224.] —

4) [Spr. 4068.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 74,176. 81,67. 108,87. 124,162.] [Oxforder Handschriften 155,b,27.]

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Ḍamb (डम्ब्):—mit vi

3) lächerlich machen [Spr. (II) 628.] —

4) [Hemacandra] [Yogaśāstra 4, 111.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 10, 69] (viḍambamāna auffallend) gehört zu 1).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Ḍamb (डम्ब्):—, ḍambayati ( node). — Mit vi

1) ḍambate nachahmen , mit Acc. —

2) ḍambayati mit Acc. — a) nachahmen , es Jmd worin nachthun , Jmd gleich kommen [251,4.] — b) verdrehen , einem Dinge ein fremdes Aussehen geben. — c) verspotten , verhöhnen , lächerlich machen. — d) zum Narren halten , täuschen , hintergehen.

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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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