Payasvin: 6 definitions

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

Payasvin (पयस्विन्):—(wie eben) [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 4, 19,] [Scholiast]

1) adj. saftreich, milchreich: tasmādāhuḥ payasvī rājā puṇya iti [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 18, 9, 21.] sā naḥ payasvinī dhukṣva [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 3, 3. 9.] dhenu, go [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 11, 137.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 302.] [Mahābhārata 1, 6665.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 1, 74, 29.] gaṅgā (nicht wasserreich, da daneben ghṛtinī steht) [Mahābhārata 13, 1840.] payasvinī f. subst. eine milchreiche Kuh [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 183.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 195.] [Mahābhārata 13, 703.] [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 21. 54. 65.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 21, 34.] Ziege [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] —

2) f. (deśe) gaṇa puṣkarādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 2, 135.] a) Fluss [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] Nomen proprium eines Flusses [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 19, 18.] — b) Nacht (vibhāvarī) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa]; vgl. u. payasvant . — c) N. verschiedener Pflanzen mit Milchsaft; = kākolī, kṣīrakākolī, dugdhaphenī, kṣīravidārī [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] = jīvantī [Bhāvaprakāśa] ebend. — d) Name einer Gottheit [Brahmapurāṇa] in [Oxforder Handschriften 19,a,37.]

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

Payasvin (पयस्विन्):——

1) — a) saftreich. — b) milchreich.

2) f. — a) eine milchreiche Kuh. — b) Bez. verschiedener Pflanzen. Nach den Lexicographen Batatas paniculata ([Rājan 7,102])., Asteracantha longifolia ([Rājan 7,104])., kākolī , kṣīrakākolī ([Rājan 3,16])., jīvantī ([Bhāvaprakāśa 1,200]). und dugdhaphenī ([Rājan 5,98.]).

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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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