Samahvaya, Samāhvaya: 8 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSamāhvaya (समाह्वय):—(von hvā mit samā) m.
1) Herausforderung, Streit [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 797.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 231.] [Medinīkoṣa y. 128.] [Halāyudha 2, 299.] vāṅmanasoḥ [Mahābhārata 14, 640.] —
2) ein Thierkampf mit Wetten [Amarakoṣa.2,10,46.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 488.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch.9,221. fgg.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch.2,203.] [Oxforder Handschriften 263,a,25.] —
3) Benennung, Name [Halāyudha 5, 33.] neutr. [PAÑCAR. 3, 8, 6.] am Ende eines adj. comp. [7. 4, 3, 32 (S. 249).] — Vgl. lakṣmī .
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: Dyutasamahvaya, Lakshmisamahvaya.
Full-text: Sahvaya, Samahvana, Dyuta, Dyutasamahvayaprakarana, Ahvaya.
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