Pragabhava, Prāgabhāva, Pranc-abhava: 9 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPrāgabhāva (प्रागभाव):—(prāñc + abhāva) m. vorangehendes Nichtsein so v. a. Seinwerden [TARKAS. 4.] anādiḥ sāntaḥ prāgabhāvaḥ [?57. GAUḌAP. zu SĀṂKHYAK. 4. Bhāṣāpariccheda 11. Scholiast zu Kapila 1, 105. Colebrooke I, 288. MÜLLER in morgenländischen Gesellschaft 6, 14.] vicāra m. Titel eines Buchs [HALL 47.]
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Prāgabhāva (प्रागभाव):—besser das noch-nicht-Sein; vgl. noch [SARVADARŚANAS. 111, 18. 161, 15.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPrāgabhāva (प्रागभाव):—m. das Nochnichtsein. vāda m. ([Private libraries (Gustav) 1.]), vicāra m. , vijñāna n. und bhavojjīvana n. Titel von Werken.
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: Pranc, Prag, Abhava.
Starts with: Pragabhavakhandana, Pragabhavakhandanavicara, Pragabhavavada, Pragabhavavicara, Pragabhavavicararahasya, Pragabhavavijnana.
Full-text: Pragabhavavada, Pragabhavavicara, Pragabhavavicararahasya, Pragabhavavijnana, Abhava, Pragabhavojjivana, Pirakapavam, Samsargabhava, Atyantabhava.
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Nyaya-Vaisheshika categories (Study) (by Diptimani Goswami)
Abhāva (1): Prāgabhāva < [Chapter 7 - Abhāva (Non-existence)]
Varieties of Abhāva (Introduction) < [Chapter 7 - Abhāva (Non-existence)]
Abhāva (3): Atyantābhāva (Absolute Non-existence) < [Chapter 7 - Abhāva (Non-existence)]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 4 - The Pramāṇas according to Mādhava Mukunda < [Chapter XXI - The Nimbārka School of Philosophy]
Part 17 - Rāmānujācārya II alias Vādi-Haṃsa-Navāmvuda < [Chapter XX - Philosophy of the Rāmānuja School of Thought]
Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika (by R. Balasubramanian)
Verse 1.31 < [Book 1 - Śīkṣāvallī]
Verse 1.32 < [Book 1 - Śīkṣāvallī]
Verse 2.179 < [Book 2 - Brahmavallī]
Vivekachudamani (by Shankara)
Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari (by K. A. Subramania Iyer)
Verse 3.9.56 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (9): Kāla-samuddeśa (On Time)]
Nyayakusumanjali of Udayana (study) (by Sri Ramen Bhadra)
Further analysis of the Argument < [Chapter 2 - The first and second Stavakas]