Pratipaksha, Pratipakṣa, Prātipakṣa, Prati-paksha: 20 definitions

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Pratipaksha has 19 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Pratipakṣa and Prātipakṣa can be transliterated into English as Pratipaksa or Pratipaksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Pratipaksh.

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[«previous next»] — Pratipaksha in Sanskrit glossary

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

Pratipakṣa (प्रतिपक्ष):—(1. pra + pakṣa) m.

1) die entgegengesetzte Seite, Opposition. die feindliche Partei; Gegner, Widersacher [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 728.] [Halāyudha 2, 300.] iti pūrvoktadoṣapratipakṣe guṇā anena ślokenoktāḥ so v. a. im Gegensatz zu den vorher erwähnten Mängeln [Kullūka] zu [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 7, 31.] pakṣapratipakṣopanyāsena [] zu [Chāndogyopaniṣad] [S. 71.] grahaṃ cakruḥ [Mahābhārata 8, 4409.] mahārājena pratipakṣamācaranti (v. l. für pratipakṣabhāvamācaranti) [Prabodhacandrodaja 34, 14.] kāmakrodhādipratipakṣeṣu (v. l. krodhādiṣu prati) kutreyamudeṣyati [31, 12.] anyonyaṃ pratipakṣasaṃhatimimāṃ lokasthitiṃ bodhayan [Mṛcchakaṭikā 178, 6.] pratipakṣeṇāpi patiṃ sevante bhartṛvatsalāstanvyaḥ so v. a. Nebenbuhlerinnen [Mālavikāgnimitra 94. 95.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 47, 54.] bhūtā asurāḥ [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [?S. 89. 295. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 1, 29. Pañcatantra ed. orn. 56, 10. Kullūka zu Manu’s Gesetzbuch 7, 67.] śāstrānuṣṭhānapratipakṣavyasana [53. 12, 28.] [Yogasūtra 2, 33.] niṣpratipakṣatva [Kathāsaritsāgara 27, 139.] Vgl. niṣpratipakṣa, satpratipakṣa . —

2) Nomen proprium eines Fürsten (= pratikṣatra anderer Autt.) [Vāyupurāṇa] in [Viṣṇupurāṇa 412, Nalopākhyāna 3.] — Vgl. prātipakṣya .

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

Pratipakṣa (प्रतिपक्ष):—m.

1) die entgegengesetzte Seite , Gegensatz , Opposition , die feindliche Partei , Nebenbuhlerschaft ; Gegner , Widersacher , Nebenbuhler. javapratipakṣa iva garutmataḥ in der Geschwindigkeit gleichsam ein Nebenbuhler Garuḍa's [Kād. (1872) 89,5(159,17).] Unter dem Synonymen von gleich (wetteifernd mit ) [Böhtlingk’s Sanskrit-Chresthomathie 250,27.] —

2) Nomen proprium eines Fürsten.

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