Surata, Sūrata, Su-rata, Suratā, Shurata: 20 definitions

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

Śūratā (शूरता):—(von 1. śūra) f. Heldenmuth, Beherztheit [Spr. (II) 4748.] [Sāhityadarpana 90.]

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Surata (सुरत):—(6. su + rata)

1) adj. (vgl. sūrata) a) sich vergnügend, im Spiel begriffen, = krīḍāyukta [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 5, 14.] — b) mitleidig [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 2.] [Sārasundarī] zu [Amarakoṣa] nach [Śabdakalpadruma] —

2) m. Nomen proprium eines Bettlers [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s 261 (31).] —

3) f. ā Nomen proprium einer Apsaras [Mahābhārata 1, 2558.] [Brahmapurāṇa] in [Lassen’s Anthologie 51, 11]; vgl. surathā . —

4) n. a) grosse Freude: surataṃ te stu [Mahābhārata 13, 152.] — b) Liebesgenuss, Beischlaf [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 7, 31.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 536.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 171.] [Halāyudha 2, 414. 5, 29.] [Suśruta 1, 192, 5.] [Pañcatantra 221, 17.] vārarātriṣu [Raghuvaṃśa 19, 18.] pradīpāḥ [Kumārasaṃbhava 1, 10.] viśeṣa [Kirātārjunīya 5, 23.] bhedāḥ [Weber’s Verzeichniss 173 (III).] varṇana [Oxforder Handschriften 116,b,1.] nivṛtti [123,a,47.] glāni [Meghadūta 32.] aṅgaglāniṃ janitām 71. vidhi [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 98, 10.] saukhya [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 10, 4.] tayā saha nānāprakāraiḥ saṃbhogaṃ vidhāya [9, 1. 2.] vyāpārajātaśrama [Spr. (II) 1992.] suratopacārakuśala [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka 17, 3.] suratotsukā [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 23, 44.] prasaṅgin [Ṛtusaṃhāra 6, 1.] siṣeve krīḍāmumayā saha śaṃkaraḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 20, 72.] keli [Oxforder Handschriften 123,a,46. fg.] suratotsava [Spr. (II) 2111. 2653.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 45, 318.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 281.] am Ende eines adj. comp. (f. ā): vicitrasuratā [Sāhityadarpana 100.] vara [Spr. (II) 5737.]

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Suratā (सुरता):—(von sura Gott) f.

1) nom. abstr. [Medinīkoṣa t. 171.] [Mahābhārata 5, 3535.] —

2) nom. coll. [Jaṭādhara] in [Oxforder Handschriften 190,a,22.]

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Sūrata (सूरत):—adj: dame [Uṇādisūtra 5, 14.] = upaśānta und kṛpālu [UJJVAL.] mitleidig [Amarakoṣa 3, 1, 15.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 369.] f. ā eine fromme Kuh [Halāyudha 2, 115.] — Vgl. surata .

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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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