Pramukha: 19 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPramukha (प्रमुख):—(1. pra + mukha)
1) adj. a) mit dem Gesicht zu hin (acc.) gewandt: taṃ sarve pramukhāḥ svanam . apyekamanaso jagmuryathāsthānaṃ pradhāvitāḥ .. [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 103, 36.] — b) der vorderste, erste; der vorzüglichste; = prathama, ādi, mukhya, pradhāna, śreṣṭha [Amarakoṣa 3, 2, 6.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 51.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1437.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 113.] [Medinīkoṣa kh. 10.] [Halāyudha 4, 5.] baleṣu pramukho hastī [Hitopadeśa III, 83.] gaṇa der Vorstand einer Versammlung [Vyutpatti oder Mahāvyutpatti 144.] Gewöhnlich am Ende eines adj. comp. (f. ā) den zum Vordersten habend, angeführt von, dieser und so weiter: vīrasenapramukhaṃ daṇḍacakram [Mālavikāgnimitra 9, 10.] vasiṣṭhapramukhairdvijaiḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 34. 8, 4. 2, 25, 8. 65, 25.] [Indralokāgamana 2, 14.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 2, 38.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 45, 386.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 14. 5, 186.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 73, 10.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 124.] Inschr. in [Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 6, 543, 9. 7, 12, Śloka 45.] gāyatrīpramukhaṃ chandaḥ [Amarakoṣa 2, 7, 22.] garmucchyāmākapramukhāḥ [2, 4, 5, 31.] sāmātyapramukhā (st. amātya wegen eines vorangehenden e) janāḥ [Mahābhārata 3, 3062.] prīti so v. a. freundlich (vgl. puraḥsara): vacana [Meghadūta 4.] pramukha = mānya ehrenwerth [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) m. a) Haufen, Menge [Śabdaratnāvalī] — b) Rottleria tinctoria Roxb. (puṃnāga) [Śabdacandrikā im Śabdakalpadruma] —
3) n. a) Anfang (eines Kapitels) [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [S. 283.] — b) Gegenwart, dieselbe Zeit; = tadātva [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2. 17.] = anvayavelā [PRATĀPAR. 72,b,5.] —
4) loc. pramukhe adv. voran, vor dem Angesichte, gegenüber, vor (mit dem gen.): kauśalyāṃ pramukhe kṛtvā vorangehen lassend [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 111, 17.] te vasthitāḥ pramukhe gegenüber [Bhagavadgītā 2, 6.] [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 76, 27.] [Mahābhārata 4, 1199.] tasya sainyasya [2, 1156. 2432.] [Harivaṃśa 4330. 4549. 8089.] [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 95, 3. 98, 17.] [Śākuntala 181.] [Chezy’s Ausgabe des Śākuntala 61, 1.] senā [Mahābhārata 5, 2242.] Am Anfange eines comp. ohne Flexionszeichen: pramukhāviṣkṛtacāruvibhramā [Raghuvaṃśa 8, 79.] Vgl. pramukhatas .
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Pramukha (प्रमुख):—
4) [Mahābhārata 1, 5369] [?= JOHNS. Sel. 15, 55.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPramukha (प्रमुख):——
1) Adj. — a) mit dem Gesicht zu (Acc.) gewandt. — b) der vorderste , erste , vorzüglichste. Gewöhnlich am Ende eines adj. Comp. (f. ā) den zum Vordersten habend , angeführt von , dieser und so weiter. prīti so v.a. freundlich. —
2) *m. — a) Haufe , Menge. — b) Rottleria tinctoria. —
3) n. — a) Anfang (eines Kapitels). — b) Gegenwart , dieselbe Zeit. —
4) pramukhe Loc. voran , vor dem Angesicht , gegenüber , vor ; die Ergänzung im Gen. oder im Comp. vorangehend. —
5) pramukha vor dem Angesicht.
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Starts with: Pramukha-adhikari, Pramukha-adhikrita, Pramukha-atithi, Pramukha-calaka, Pramukha-jilla-adhikari, Pramukha-sabha, Pramukha-sacetaka, Pramukha-saciva, Pramukha-senani, Pramukha-sthapati, Pramukhakarana, Pramukhara, Pramukhata, Pramukhatas, Pramukhatva.
Ends with: Apramukha, Ayushpramukha, Ganapramukha, Kyampasa-pramukha, Nagarapramukha, Pariksha-pramukha, Pritipramukha, Rajapramukha, Samatyapramukha, Vara-pramukha, Vasishthapramukha, Vibhagiya-pramukha, Yojanapramukha.
Full-text (+14): Pramukhatva, Pramukhatas, Pritipramukha, Pramukhata, Pritipramukhavacana, Nayacara, Pramukhe, Pariksha-pramukh, Kyampasa-pramukha, Pramukha-calaka, Pamuha, Kyampus-pramukh, Pramukh-sachetak, Pramukh-sabha, Vara-pramukha, Sampramukhita, Samatyapramukha, Pramukhya, Piramukam, Vasishthapramukha.
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