Gaurava: 21 definitions

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

Gaurava (गौरव):—(von guru)

1) adj. zum Lehrer in Beziehung stehend: kula die Familie des Guru [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 7, 46.] —

2) n. oxyt. gaṇa pṛthvādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 122.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 7, 19.] a) Schwere [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 4, 26. 35. 38.] [Suśruta 1, 20, 13. 90, 11. 128, 7. 149, 3.] [Śākuntala 56.] [Raghuvaṃśa 3, 11.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8, 7, 6.] vajragauravā (gadā) [Mahābhārata 9, 585.] gāṇḍīvaṃ vajraniṣpeṣagauravam [3, 424.] gātrāṇām [Suśruta 1, 69, 14. 79, 15.] — b) prosodische Länge [Śrutabodha] [?(BR.) 4.] — c) Wichtigkeit, grosse Bedeutung, hoher Werth (einer Sache): kāryasya [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 40, 29.] kārya [4, 16, 47. Nalopākhyāna 20, 22.] artha [Siddhāntakaumudī] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.2,2,11.] [Rāmāyaṇa.3,40,24.] analpaguṇagauravaśobhamānā [KAURAP. 40.] [Scholiast] zu [Kapila 1, 89] ([BALLANTYNE] : cumbrousness). — d) Gravität, Ehrwürdigkeit, Ansehen der Person, Würde; die einer Person oder Sache zugewandte Hochachtung [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 500.] [Hārāvalī 138.] sahasraṃ tu pitṝnmātā gauraveṇātiricyate [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 145.] [Mahābhārata 2, 2376.] [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 8, 56.] anyonyasya hṛdi sthite pyanunaye saṃrakṣatorgauravam (daṃpatyoḥ) [Amaruśataka 19.] gauravavyapagamādutpāditaṃ lāghavam [29.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 23, 2.] ko rthī gato gauravam [Pañcatantra I, 162.] [Hitopadeśa II, 85.] mātṛgauravāt aus Hochachtung für die Mutter [Pañcatantra 265, 4.] [Śākuntala 30, 14.] pitṛgauraveṇa [Raghuvaṃśa 18, 38.] yāvatpitari dharmajñe gauravaṃ lokasatkṛte . tāvaddharmakṛtāṃ śreṣṭha jananyāmapi gauravam .. [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 101, 22.] gauravayantritakathaḥ pituḥ [1, 76, 1.] prayojanāpekṣitayā prabhūṇāṃ prāyaścalaṃ gauramāśriteṣu [Kumārasaṃbhava 3, 1.] māturvacanagauravāt [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 46, 21.] svavikrame gauravam [Raghuvaṃśa 14, 18.] na punarasmākaṃ nāṭyaṃ prati mithyā gauravam [Mālavikāgnimitra 7. 2.] — Vgl. gurulāghava .

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Gaurava (गौरव):—

2) b) [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 84. 216.] — e) Bez. eines best. Fehlers in der Dialektik: Schwerfälligkeit, zu weites Ausholen [SARVADARŚANAS. 13, 1. 114, 1. 133, 17.] Hierher auch die u. c) stehende Stelle [Scholiast] zu [Kapila 1, 89.] — Vgl. nirgaurava .

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

Gaurava (गौरव):——

1) Adj. zum Lehrer in Beziehung stehend. — kula n. die Familie des Lehrers. —

2) *m. eine best. giftige Pflanze [Galano's Wörterbuch] —

3) n. — a) Schwere. — b) Schwere eines Buches , so v.a. Voluminosität [Jaiminiyanyāyamālāvistara .S.4,] Z. 9. — c) Schwierigkeit [Carakasaṃhitā 3,4.] — d) prosodische Länge. — e) Wichtigkeit , grosse Bedeutung , hoher Werth. — f) Gravität , Ehrwürdigkeit , Ansehen der Person , Würde [Āpastamba’s Dharmasūtra] — g) die einer Person oder Sache erwiesene oder gebührende Hochachtung , Ehrfurcht — , Respect vor [Harṣacarita 218,19.] [Kād. (1872) 194,21.2,146,16.] punarāgamana Ehre [1,238,5.] — h) ein best. Fehler in der Dialektik ; Schwerfälligkeit , zu weites Ausholen.

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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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