Svayamvara, Svayaṃvara, Svayam-vara: 19 definitions

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

Svayaṃvara (स्वयंवर):—

1) adj. (f. ā) selbst wählend: kanyā ein Mädchen, das den Gatten sich selbst wählt, [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 7.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 511.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 92.] [Mahābhārata 1, 2259. 3828. 5, 5950.] [Harivaṃśa 8592.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 68, 13. 121, 219. 123, 120.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 124, 21.] śriyaḥ (nom. pl.) [Hemacandra] [Yogaśāstra 2, 74.] bhartṛ [Mahābhārata 1, 125.] —

2) m. Selbstwahl, freie Wahl: suhṛd ein Freund, den man sich selbst wählt, [Kathāsaritsāgara 22, 120. 28, 116. 104, 217.] suhṛttva [10, 20.] sakhī [28, 104.] svayaṃvarāgatā aus eigenem Antriebe, von freien Stücken [?117, 140. Insbes.] die den Mädchen der Kriegerkaste gestattete freie Wahl des Gatten: vṛṇvānāḥ svayaṃvaram [Mahābhārata 1, 4083.] rājñāhūya narādhipān . pitrā svayaṃvare dattrā duhitā [?4414. 3, 2111. fg. 2179. 2876. 5, 6004. 7117. 7, 1045. Rāmāyaṇa 1, 34, 20 (35, 18 Gorresio). Kathāsaritsāgara 33, 7. Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 66. 68. Sāhityadarpana 127, 19. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 10, 29. 9, 10, 6.] sthā [10, 68, 1.] pati [Kathāsaritsāgara 30, 82. 101, 46.] vṛtaḥ patiḥ [106, 15.]

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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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