Svaira: 12 definitions

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Alternative spellings of this word include Swair.

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

Svaira (स्वैर):—(sva + īra von īr) adj. = svacchanda (svatantra) und manda [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 25, 194.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 470.] [Medinīkoṣa r. 100] (svairaḥ st. svaraḥ zu lesen). [Halāyudha 5, 47.] Zu belegen

1) svairam adv. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 1, 89, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 4.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 2, 10.] aus eigenem Antriebe, nach eigenem Belieben, von selbst, ungehemmt, frei, ohne Weiteres, gerade heraus (sprechen, fragen): laghuḥ svairaṃ gamiṣyasi [Mahābhārata 3, 8449.] saṃhṛṣṭo nagaraṃ svairamāgataḥ [4, 2212.] gaccha [13, 4456.] brūhi [14, 1639.] tiṣṭha svairamiha (tiṣṭhasva tvamiha die neuere Ausg.) so v. a. ruhig [Harivaṃśa 4610.] yadatra naḥ kṣamaṃ kṛṣṇa tatsvairaṃ saṃvidhīyatām [5270.] [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 9, 69.] [Mṛcchakaṭikā 142, 22.] sārthāḥ svairaṃ svakīyeṣu cerurveśmasvivādriṣu [Raghuvaṃśa 17, 64.] sītāyāḥ śiraḥ svairamunnamayya [UTTARAR. 22, 2 (29, 6).] [Gītagovinda 8, 11.] svairaṃ (von selbst) daviṣṭhānyaho yānti ghaṭanāṃ kāryāṇi niryantraṇam [Spr. (II) 543. 1622. 2247. 2687.] svairamāsyatām [kāvyādarśa 2, 296.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 4, 40. 5, 38. 7, 98. 10, 148. 13, 21. 24. 139. 15, 109. 16, 12. 17, 114. 119. 18, 346. 20, 206. 22, 99. 183. 23, 40. 24, 112. 25, 157. 239. 26, 186. 27, 153. 181. 191. 28, 143. 29, 30. 30, 131. 32, 26. 168. 33, 81. 96. 206. 34, 6. 25. 35, 40. 37, 105. 152. 39, 54. 40, 76. 41, 41. 45, 247. 307. 315. 344. 46, 60. 174. 51, 66. 53, 27. 36. 55, 74. 56, 138. 364. 58, 13. 59, 104. 132. 60, 64. 138. 216. 61, 257. 63, 166. 64, 45. 119. 66, 70. 69, 48. 57. 71, 130. 72, 352. 75, 112. 162. 76, 25. 89, 99. 103, 223. 106, 111. 123, 183.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 411. 6, 313.] [Sāhityadarpana 115, 8. 153, 19.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 1, 18. 4, 26, 26. 5, 4, 4. 9, 18. 17, 13. 24, 16. 8, 12, 38. 17, 9. 10, 33, 35. 34, 25. 42, 23.] = viśrabdham [Scholiast] zu [Śākuntala 9, 18.] = saviśrambham Comm. zu [kāvyādarśa 2, 296.] = nīcais [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 7, 51.] [Medinīkoṣa avyaya (s. Med.) 81.] —

2) svaireṇa dass. [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 59, 2, 29.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 14, 31.] —

3) svaireṣu in Fällen, wo man sich frei gehen lassen kann; bei gleichgültigen Sachen nāhaṃ mṛṣā bravīmyeva svaireṣvapi kutaḥ śapan [Mahābhārata 1, 1726. 1921. 2086. 2343. 4499. 3, 1918. 2865. 13573. 16845. 12, 1740. 13, 2684. 14, 1671. 2027. 17, 66.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 2, 15, 30.] —

4) am Anfange eines comp. in der Bed. von svairam. vihārin nach eigenem Belieben [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 328.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 339.] svairamuktāḥ śarāḥ so v. a. auf’s Gerathewohl [Mahābhārata 3, 1949.] jñātagati von selbst, ohne Weiteres [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 13, 26.] saṃgatā [Kathāsaritsāgara 60, 4.] avyāhatasvairagataiḥ [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 5.] svairācāra adj. zwanglosen Benehmens [Mahābhārata 3, 13053.] svairālāpāḥ [Spr. (II) 4218.] kathāḥ [3956. 6761.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 47, 43.] svairāhāra nach Belieben [Spr. (II) 7356.] svairodyānabhrama [Kathāsaritsāgara 39, 171.] sāhasa [27, 202.] pracāra [Pañcatantra 31, 3] [?(ed. orn. 27, 12).] svairāvatāra [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 69, 17.] saṃyuga [36, 25.] sudṛś wohl fehlerhaft für svairi [Spr. (II) 785, v. l.] — Vgl. yathāsvairam .

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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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