Prashvasa, Praśvāsa: 8 definitions
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Prashvasa has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Praśvāsa can be transliterated into English as Prasvasa or Prashvasa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Praswas.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPraśvāsa (प्रश्वास):—(von śvas mit pra) m. das Einathmen: praśvāsocchvāsa [Suśruta 1, 363, 15.] śvāsa [Yogasūtra.2,49.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 83] [?(vgl. Oxforder Handschriften 186,b, Śloka 83). Kullūka zu Manu’s Gesetzbuch.1,52. 55.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPraśvāsa (प्रश्वास):—m. das Einathmen.
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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Starts with: Prashvasati.
Ends with: Ashvasaprashvasa, Shvasa-prashvasa, Ucchvasaprashvasa, Uchchhvasaprashvasa.
Full-text: Shvasaprashvasadharana, Ashvasa, Prashvasati, Ucchvasaprashvasa, Anapana, Praswas, Shvasa, Ushvasati, Swas, Antaraya, Ashvasaprashvasa, Nihsarana, Vayu.
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