Pratyadesha, Pratyādeśa: 11 definitions

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Pratyadesha has 10 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Pratyādeśa can be transliterated into English as Pratyadesa or Pratyadesha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Pratyādeśa (प्रत्यादेश):—(von 1. diś mit pratyā) m.

1) Anweisung, Befehl [Vetālapañcaviṃśati 2, 17.] —

2) Zurückstossung, Abweisung; = pratyākhyāna, nirasana [Amarakoṣa 3, 3, 31.] śakuntalā [Śākuntala 79, 12. 82, 8. 183.] madhunaḥ [Meghadūta 93.] eine abschlägige Antwort 112. —

3) Beschämung: yena yena yathāṅgena steno nṛṣu viceṣṭate . tattadeva harettasya pratyādeśāya ([Kullūka]: prasaṅganivāraṇāya) pārthivaḥ .. [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 334.] nṛśaṃsasya mamādyāyaṃ pratyādeśo na saṃśayaḥ . dattaḥ svamāṃsaṃ dahatā kapotena mahātmanā .. [Mahābhārata 12, 5553] (hiernach ist auch [Pañcatantra III, 176] pratyādeśaḥ st. pratyādarśaḥ zu lesen). [3, 59. 6, 3776.] tasya duhitā pratyādeśa iva śriyaḥ beschämend, verdunkelnd [Daśakumāracarita 138, 3]; vgl. jā paccādeso rūagavvidāe sirigorīe [Vikramorvaśī 5, 10.]

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

Pratyādeśa (प्रत्यादेश):—m.

1) Anweisung , Befehl.

2) Zurückstossung , Abweisung.

3) eine abschlägige Antwort.

4) Beschämung [Kād. (1872) 5,8.]

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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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