Prakrita, Prākṛta: 25 definitions
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Prakrita has 23 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Prākṛta can be transliterated into English as Prakrta or Prakrita, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Prakrat.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPrakṛta (प्रकृत):—
1) partic. s. u. 1. kar mit pra . Nachgetragen könnte noch werden: angestellt, mit Etwas beauftragt [Scholiast] zu [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 865, 5 v. u.] in Rede stehend [171, 2. 365, 9. 404, 8. 401, 21.] —
2) m. Nomen proprium eines Mannes gaṇa aśvādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 110.]
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Prākṛta (प्राकृत):—(von prakṛti) adj. f. ā und ī
1) ursprünglich, natürlich, unverändert, normal, gewöhnlich, gemein [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 1, 1, 2, 7. 11, 2, 5, 1.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 5, 4. 12, 3, 16. 16, 4, 30.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 17, 19. 7, 21, 7. 9, 7, 2. 11, 11.] [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 3, 2. 12, 8.] [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 2, 8. 13. 4, 11. 15, 7. 17, 23.] [Prātiśākhya zur Taittirīyasaṃhitā] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 4, 245.] [Upalekha 3, 7.] prayatna normal, gewöhnlich [Patañjali] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 8, 2, 84.] [WEBER, Jyotiṣa 100. 102.] prākṛtaṃ kena laṅghyate [Spr. 2169.] sakhā, śatruḥ [3093.] vākya [1197.] kṛcchra [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 11, 158.] yajña [Mahābhārata 3, 10669.] karman [13864] (wo karmaṇāṃ zu lesen ist.) [Harivaṃśa 9783.] sattva ein gewöhnliches Thier [Pañcatantra 25, 2.] siddhayaḥ (Gegens. mahāsiddhayaḥ) [Prabodhacandrodaja 61, 17.] von Menschen so v. a. gewöhnlich, gemein, Einer aus dem grossen Haufen [Amarakoṣa.2,10,16.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 932.] [Halāyudha.2,193.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch.8,336.] [Bhagavadgītā 18,28.] [Brāhmaṇavilāpa.2,1.] [Hiḍimbavadha.1,36.] [Mahābhārata 14,2626.] [Harivaṃśa 3522.] [Rāmāyaṇa.2,52,15. 108,2.] [Spr. 2887.] [Mṛcchakaṭikā 147,6.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 13,60. 40,63.] [WIND. Sancara 94.] [Oxforder Handschriften 256,a,17.] ati [Vedānta lecture No. 81.] (brāhmaṇāḥ) prākṛtāḥ saṃskṛtāstathā [Mahābhārata 3, 13437.] rākṣasa [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 35, 19.] prākṛtāḥ striyaḥ [Mahābhārata 4, 276.] [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 101, 6.] suprākṛteva strī ganz gemein [Rāmāyaṇa] [SCHL. 2, 22, 19.] vacāṃsi gemeine Reden [Harivaṃśa 14581.] prākṛtī buddhiḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 75, 23.] kṛtā ed. Bomb. 24 (der [Scholiast] aber wieder prākṛtī) und [Gorresio 77, 26.] die gemeine Sprache ist die vom Volk gesprochene, das Prākrit, welches die Grammatiker aus dem Sanskrit ableiten: prakṛtiḥ saṃskṛtam tatra bhavaṃ tata āgataṃ ca prākṛtam [HEMAC.] in [Oxforder Handschriften No. 410.] prākṛtabhāṣin [Mṛcchakaṭikā 2, 15.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 6, 148.] [kāvyādarśa 1, 33. fgg.] [Scholiast] zu [Śākuntala 9, 6.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss 154, 3 v. u. 292, 10 v. u.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 295.] Eine der 7 Strecken der Planetenbahn heisst prākṛta [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 7, 8.] sie umfasst nach Parāśara die Nakṣatra Svāti, Bharaṇī, Rohiṇī und Kṛttikā [9, 13. 14.] —
2) aus der Natur hervorgegangen, zu ihr in Beziehung stehend, materiell [Viṣṇupurāṇa] bei [MUIR, Stenzler IV, 34. fg.] guṇāḥ [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 27, 1.] sarga die primitive, aus der Natur hervorgehende Schöpfung [Viṣṇupurāṇa 37.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.3,10,17.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 45,73. 47,32. 35. 36.] [Oxforder Handschriften 82,b,18. 19.] laya, pralaya, pratisaṃcara eine Auflösung, bei der Alles wieder in den Zustand der Natur zurückkehrt, [Viṣṇupurāṇa 12. 630. 635.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 46, 3.] nach dem [BRAHMAVAIV. Pāṇini’s acht Bücher im Śabdakalpadruma] auch = prakṛterlayaḥ die Auflösung der Natur.
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Prākṛta (प्राकृत):—
1) [Z. 8] streiche karman [13864] nebst dem Eingeklammerten, da hier prākkṛta zu lesen ist.
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Prākṛta (प्राकृत):—
1) mitra, ari, udāsīna (Gegens. kṛtrima) [Mitākṣarā] [?I,52,b.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPrakṛta (प्रकृत):——
1) Adj. Partic. von 1. kar mit pra. —
2) *m. Nomen proprium eines Mannes.
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Prākṛta (प्राकृत):——
1) Adj. (f. ā und ī) — a) ursprünglich , natürlich , unverändert , normal , gewöhnlich. — b) gewöhnlich , so v.a. gemein , ungebildet roh (von Personen und Reden). Auch substantivisch von solchen Menschen. — c) aus der Natur (in philosophischem Sinne) hervorgegangen , zu ihr in Beziehung stehend , in sie wieder zurückkehrend. — d) gati in der Astr. eine der 7 Strecken der Planetenbahn (die Mondhäuser Svāti. Bharaṇī , Roniṇī und Kṛttikā umfassend) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhatsaṃhitā 7,8,9.13.14.] — e) prakritisch [Vikramāṅkadevacarita 18,6.] —
2) wohl m. die Auflösung der Natur. —
3) n. die gewöhnliche , vulgäre Sprache , das Prakrit. — Auch fehlerhaft für prākkṛta.
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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