Upavas: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Upavas (उपवस्).—1 P.

1) To dwell in or at, inhabit (with acc.); तपःश्रद्धे ये ह्युपवसन्त्यरण्ये (tapaḥśraddhe ye hyupavasantyaraṇye) Mund. Up.1.2.11. वैकुण्ठं उपवसति (vaikuṇṭhaṃ upavasati) Sk.

2) To be in a state of abstinence, abstain from food, fast; उपवसेद्दिनम् (upavaseddinam) Manusmṛti 2.22,5,2; Y.3.292,64; (fig. also); उपोषिताभ्यामिव नेत्राभ्यां पिबन्ती (upoṣitābhyāmiva netrābhyāṃ pibantī) Daśakumāracarita 4.

3) To go to (a master).

4) To enter upon, learn, take to, begin. -Caus. To cause to fast.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Upavas (उपवस्).—abide, stay, wait, [especially] with eating i.e. fast; enter upon, attend to ([accusative]). [Causative] cause to stay (over night) or fast.

Upavas is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms upa and vas (वस्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Upavas (उपवस्):—[=upa-vas] -√5. vas [Parasmaipada] -vasati, to abide or dwell with or at;

—to stay, wait, wait for, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa; Aitareya-brāhmaṇa; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa];

—to abide in a state of abstinence, abstain from food, fast, [Kātyāyana on Pāṇini 1-4, 48; Taittirīya-saṃhitā i, 6, 7, 3; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa i, 6];—[xi; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra; Manu-smṛti] etc.;

—to encamp (with [accusative]), [Pāṇini 1-4, 48];

—to dwell on, give one’s self up to, apply one’s self to, [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa; Muṇḍaka-upaniṣad] :—[Causal] to cause to abide or wait, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā];

—to cause to fast, [Pāraskara-gṛhya-sūtra; Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa]

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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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