Prishati, Pṛṣatī, Pṛśati, Pṛṣati: 4 definitions
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Prishati means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit terms Pṛṣatī and Pṛśati and Pṛṣati can be transliterated into English as Prsati or Prishati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of SriharsaPṛṣatī (पृषती) (in pṛṣatīmaspṛśatī) refers to a “collyrium stick” (añjanaśalākā), and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 2.23.—The word is explained also as “a doe”.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Source: archive.org: Vedic index of Names and SubjectsPṛṣatī (पृषती) in some passages clearly means a “speckled” cow. The term is, however, generally applied to the team of the Maruts, when its sense is doubtful. The commentators usually explain it as “speckled antelope”. But Mahīdhara, followed by Roth, prefers to see in it a “dappled mare”: it is true that the Maruts are often called pṛṣad-aśva, which is more naturally interpreted as “having dappled steeds”, than as “having Pṛṣatīs as steeds”. In the later literature, which Grassmann prefers to follow, the word means the female of the dappled gazelle.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPṛśati (पृशति).—(semi-MIndic for spṛś-, based on MIndic phus-, phas-; compare Weller, Prosa des Lalitavistara, 25; compare also Whitney, Roots, s.v. pṛś), touches: pṛsiṣyati (for pṛś°, fut.) Lalitavistara 153.18 (verse); mā…prākṣur (aor.) Lalitavistara 379.18, 21; 380.2; mā prākṣīr Divyāvadāna 443.21 (verse, = Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.135.7 sprākṣīr); praṣṭum, inf., Mahāvastu ii.427.7; iii.158.5; Divyāvadāna 519.18; ppp. pṛṣṭāni Lalitavistara 122.7 (prose; all mss.); pṛṣṭho, read pṛṣṭo, Divyāvadāna 190.11; vyādhina pṛṣṭā Śikṣāsamuccaya 330.6 (verse), touched by disease; gdve., see s.v. praṣṭavya.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Pṛṣatī (पृषती):—[from pṛṣat > pṛṣ] a f. a dappled cow or mare (applied to the animals ridden by the Maruts), [Ṛg-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; ???]
2) [v.s. ...] a spotted doe, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] = pārṣatī, the daughter of Pṛṣata, [Mahābhārata i, 6390]
4) [from pṛṣata > pṛṣ] b (f. See under pṛṣat)
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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Ends with: Kshudraprishati, Samsprishati.
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