Pravaha: 20 definitions

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

Pravaha (प्रवह):—(von vah mit pra)

1) adj. führend, vehens: medovasāsṛkpravahā (nadī) [Mahābhārata 4, 2016. 6, 2639.] kāmapravahā (nadī) [13, 3525.] anekagandha (deśa) [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 17, 18.] —

2) m. a) Bez. einer der sieben Winde, der die Planeten in Bewegung setzt, [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 767.] [Medinīkoṣa Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 20.] [Mahābhārata 12, 11124. 11170. 12400.] [Harivaṃśa 12787.] [Sūryasiddhānta 2, 3. 11, 3. 12, 73.] [Siddhāntaśiromaṇi 5, 42.] [Śākuntala 165, v. l.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 240.] [Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa] beim Schol. zu [Śākuntala 165.] Wind überh. [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] Bez. eines der sieben Zungen (als m.!) des Feuers [Colebrooke I, 190.] — b) ein Behälter, in den Wasser geleitet wird: varṣāmbu [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 154.] — c) das Hervorströmen [Amarakoṣa 3, 3, 18.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa]; vgl. pravāha .

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Pravāha (प्रवाह):—(von vah mit pra)

1) m. a) Strom, Strömung, fliessendes Wasser; übertr. Fluss, Continuität, ununterbrochene Fortdauer (pravṛtti) [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 3, 21. 3, 3, 18.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1087.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 767.] [Medinīkoṣa Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 21.] [Halāyudha 3, 47.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 12, 2, 3, 12.] nadyā iva pravāhaḥ [Spr. 1403.] gaṅgā [2162.] [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 46. 16, 58.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 1, 55.] [Meghadūta 47.] [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 14, 571, 14.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 40, 84.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 89. 92. 95.] pṛthupravāhā (nadī) [Mahābhārata 6, 2636. 15, 248.] [Raghuvaṃśa 13, 48. 57.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 703.] apāṃ pravāho gāṅgaḥ [KĀM. NĪTIS. 5, 8.] vārāṃ pravāhaiḥ [Prabodhacandrodaja 87, 6.] jala [Raghuvaṃśa 13, 10.] vāri (als Erkl. von nirjhara) [Amarakoṣa 2, 3, 5.] amṛtasya [Pañcatantra II, 61.] rakta [38, 20.] [Raghuvaṃśa 7, 39.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 13, 3. 16, 16.] aśru [Pañcatantra 50, 9.] [SOM. NALA 164.] vyañjanānāṃ pravāhāḥ [Mahābhārata 3, 8530.] saptacchadakṣīrakaṭu [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 48.] vacasām [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 9, 8.] [Nīlakaṇṭha 65.] eta u ha vai chandaḥpravāhā avaraṃ chandaḥ paraṃ chando tipravahanti [Śāṅkhāyana’s Brāhmaṇa 11, 5.] sṛṣṭi [Nīlakaṇṭha 41.] manorathānāmataṭapravāhāḥ [Śākuntala 137, v. l.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 31, 17. 7, 7, 28.] bhakti [3, 33, 24.] bhava [1, 8, 36. 9, 32.] guṇa [?2,1,33.3,28,35.9,5,26. Oxforder Handschriften 128,b,32. Vedānta lecture No. 123. 134. Kullūka zu Manu’s Gesetzbuch.1,112.5,36.6,72. Scholiast zu Kapila.1,27. 160.] das Hervorströmen (vgl. pravaha) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1514.] = vyavahāra [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 458.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] (st. dessen pravṛtti [Medinīkoṣa]). pravāheṇa [Suśruta 2, 437, 19] Druckfehler für pravāhaṇe . — b) Nomen proprium eines Wesens im Gefolge des Skanda [Mahābhārata 9, 2572.] — c) ein schönes Pferd [NĀNĀRTHARATNAM. im Śabdakalpadruma] —

2) f. ī Sand [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] — Vgl. yantrapravāha .

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Pravāha (प्रवाह):—

1) a) unterbrochener Gedankengang [SARVADARŚANAS. 25, 5.] Reihe [20, 13. fgg.]

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

Pravaha (प्रवह):——

1) Adj. (f. ā) am Ende eines Comp. führend , vehens.

2) m. — a) Bez. eines der sieben Winde , der die Planeten in Bewegung setzt. — b) *Wind überh. — c) Bez. einer der sieben Zungen des Feuers. — d) ein Behälter , in den Wasser geleitet wird. — e) *das Hervorströmen.

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Pravāha (प्रवाह):——

1) m. (adj. Comp. f. ā) — a) Strom , Strömung , fliessendes Wasser. — b) Fluss , so v.a. Continuität , ununterbrochene Fortdauer. — c) ununterbrochener Gedankengang. — d) Reihe. — e) *ein schönes Pferd. — f) Nomen proprium — α) eines Wesens im Gefolge Skanda’s — β) Pl. eines Volkes [Wilson's Uebersetzung des Viṣṇupurāṇa ,2,165.] pravāheṇa [Suśruta (rotrh) 2,437,19.] Fehlerhaft für pravāhaṇe

2) *f. pravahī Sand.

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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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