Pravacana, Prāvacana, Pravācana: 18 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPravacana (प्रवचन):—(von vac mit pra) n.
1) das Reden, Sprechen; = prakṛṣṭavacana [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 179.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 191.] [Spr. 647.] paṭu beredt [2257.] —
2) Vortrag, das Hersagen, mündliche Unterweisung, das Lehren [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 11, 5, 7, 1.] [TAITT. Upakośā 1, 1, 3. 9.] nāyamātmā pravacanena labhyo na medhayā na bahunā śrutena [Kaṭhopaniṣad 2, 23] [?= Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3, 2, 3. Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 2, 12. Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 15, 16. Jaimini 1, 30. Mahābhārata 12, 9500. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 15, 1. Kullūka zu Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 16.] dharma (s. auch bes.) [Mahābhārata 8, 3458. fg. 12, 472.] chandoṅga Inschr. in [Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 7, 12,] [Śloka 50.] —
3) Ankündigung [LĀṬY. 1, 2, 7. 9. 3, 8, 12.] —
4) Ausdruck, Bezeichnung [Yāska’s Nirukta 4, 15. 25.] —
5) die vorgetragene Lehre, die heiligen Schriften, insbes. die Brāhmaṇa: anūcānaḥ pravacane sāṅge dhītī [Amarakoṣa 2, 7, 9.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 78.] = āgama [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] agryāḥ sarveṣu vedeṣu sarvapravacaneṣu ca (pravacana = aṅga [Kullūka]) [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 184] [?= Mahābhārata 13, 4305.] uvāca vedāṃścaturo mantrapravacanārcitān [Harivaṃśa 9662.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 47. 50.] [MÜLLER, SL. 53, 1 v. u. 109. 320.] samastapravacanavaṃśaḥ [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [S. 1093.] pravacanaśabdena ārṣaḥ pāṭha ucyate [Scholiast] zu [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 1, 132.] Hauptlehre der Buddhisten [Vyutpatti oder Mahāvyutpatti 43.] die heiligen Schriften der Jaina [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 245,] [Scholiast] —
6) enklit. nach einem Verbum finitum gaṇa gotrādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 8, 1, 27. 57.] — Vgl. sāṃkhya, prāvacana .
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Pravācana (प्रवाचन):—(von vac mit pra) u.
1) Verkündigung: pipartu mā.tadṛ.asya pra.ācanam [Ṛgveda 10, 35, 8.] —
2) Bezeichnung: dvi adj. eine Doppelbezeichnung führend, z. B. śauṅgaśaiśirayaḥ [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 12, 13.]
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Prāvacana (प्रावचन):—(von pravacana) adj. beim Vortrage der heiligen Texte gebräuchlich: svara [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 1, 132.]
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Pravacana (प्रवचन):—
7) m. = pravaktar der da vorträgt [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 87, 11.]
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Pravācana (प्रवाचन):—
1) füge Ruhm und [Ṛgveda 4, 36, 1] hinzu.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPravacana (प्रवचन):——
1) m. der Etwas vorträgt. —
2) n. — a) das Reden , Sprechen. paṭu Adj. beredt. — b) Vortrag , das Hersagen , mündliche Unterweisung , das Lehren. — c) Ankündigung. — d) Ausdruck , Bezeichnung — e) die vorgetragene Lehre , die heiligen Schriften , insbes. die Brāhmana. Auch die heiligen Schriften der Buddhisten und Jaina. —
3) m enklitisch nach einem Verbum fin.
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Pravācana (प्रवाचन):—n. —
1) Verkündigung. —
2) Ruhm [Ṛgveda (roth). 4,36,1.] —
3) Bezeichnung in dvipravācana.
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Prāvacana (प्रावचन):—Adj. beim Vortrage der heiligen Texte gebräuchlich.
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