Sanskrit English Dictionary Part 01

Author(s): P K Gode, C G Karve
Publisher: Prasad Prakashan

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अ
अंश:
अ The first letter of the alphabet; अक्षराणामकारोऽस्मि अकरणि, अजीवनि also. (e) Used in addressing; अ अनन्त.
(d) It is also used as a particle of prohibition.-3 The augment prefixed to the root in the formation of the Imperfect, Aorist and Conditional Tenses.
Bg. 10.33. - अ: [ अवति, अतति सातत्येन तिष्ठतीति वा; , Tv.1 N. of Visnu, the first of the three sounds constituting the sacred syllable ओम्; अकारो विष्णुरुद्दिष्ट उकारस्तु महेश्वरः । मकारस्तु स्मृतो ब्रह्मा प्रणवस्तु त्रयात्मकः ॥ For more explanations of the three syllables 3, 3, see .-2 N. of Siva, Brahma, Vayu, or Vaiśvānara.-[ अः कृष्णः शंकरो ब्रह्मा शक्रः सोमो ऽनिलोऽनलः । सूर्यः प्राणो यमः कालो वसन्तः प्रणवः सुखी || Fmm. अः स्याद् ब्रह्मणि विष्ण्वीशकूर्माणङ्करणेषु च | गौरवेऽन्तःपुरे हेतौ भूषणेऽछ्रावुमेज्ययोः ॥ Nm. अः शिखायाँ foamck amek zarifni è gegen befagy || ibid. Thus : moans Krisna, Śiva, Brahma, Indra, Soma, Vayu, Agni, the Sun, the life-breath, Yama, Kala, Vasanta, Pranava, a happy man, a tortoise, a courtyard, a battle, greatness, a female apartment in a palace, an object or a cause, an ornament, a foot, Uma, sacrifice, a flame, a particularly efficacious mantra, reins, the horse of a chariot, wheel, the head of a cock, the disc of the moon ]; in. 1 A prefix corresponding to Latin in, Eng. in or un, Gr. a or an, and joined to nouns, adjectives, indeclinables (or rarely even to verbs) as a substitute for the negative particle , and changed to 37 before vowels (except in the word 3-). The senses of usually enumerated are six-(a) 'likeness' or resemblance';: one like a Brahmana (wearing the sacred thread &e), but not a Brahmana; a Ksatriya, or a Vaisya: : a reed appearing like , but not a true (6) absence', 'negation', 'want', 'privation'; absence of knowledge, ignorance; अक्रोधः, अनङ्गः, अकण्टकः, अघट: &c. (c) अन्यत्व 'difference' or 'distinction: : not a cloth, something different from, or other than, a cloth. (1) 3 smallness', 'diminution', used as a diminutive particle: having a slender waist ( कृशोदरी or तनुमध्यमा ) (e) अप्राशस्स्य ' badness', 'unfitness', having a depreciative sense; 3: wrong or improper time; not fit to be done, improper, unworthy, bad act. (f) fai opposition', 'contrariety": fe: the opposite of morality, immorality; af not white, black; not a god, a demon &c. These senses are put together in the following verse :- तत्सादृश्यमभावश्च तदन्यत्वं तदल्पता । अप्राशस्त्यं विरोधश्व नञर्थाः षट् प्रकीर्तिताः ॥ See न also. With verbal derivatives, such as gerunds, infinitives, participles, it has usually the sense of 'not'; not having burnt; 33 not seeing: so not once; अमृषा, अकस्मात &c. Sometimes in बहुव्रीहि अ (doos not affect the sense of the second member; 31-9f4 that which has no last, i. e. best, topmost; e. g. faqferaf: cf. also R.19.1. having no superior, unsurpassed, most excellent: (for examples see these words).-2 An interjection of (a) Pity (ah!) P. I. 1. Sk. (b) Reproach, censure (fie, shame); af P. VI. 3.73 Värt. See
N. I The application of this privative prefix in practically unlimited; to give every possible case would almost amount to a dictionary itself. No attempt will, therefore, be made to give every possible combination of this prefix with a following word; only such words as require a special explanation, or such as most frequently occur in literature and enter into compounds with other words, will be given; others will be found selfexplaining when the English 'in', 'un', or 'not', is substituted for or before the meaning of the second word, or the sense may be expressed by 'less', free from, devoid or destitute of' &e; 2 unspeakuble; अदर्प without pride, or freedom from pride, अप्रगल्भ not bold; 3 unfortunate; a destitute of wealth &c. In many cases such compounds will be found explained under the second member. Most compounds beginning with or 3 are either Tatpurusa or Bahuvrihi (to be determined by the sense) and should be so dissolved.
a. (epic) (being here regarded as a consonant) Not a debtor, free from debt; ag शाकं पचति यो नरः । अऋणी चाप्रवासी च स वारिचर मोदते ॥ Mb. The normal form also occurs in this sense.
अंशु 10 U. अंशयति - ते also अंशापयति To divide, distribute, share among.
:- 1 A share, part, portion, division; member; सकृदेशो निपतति Ms. 9.17; तुर्याश: a fourth part; षष्ठ; ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूतः सनातनः Bg. 15.7; भुवमंशाविव धर्मयोगतो It. 8.16; अंशेन दर्शितानुकूलता K. 150 partly. -2 A share in property, inheritance; tais: Ms. 8.408; कीवपतितौ 9:201; पन्यः कार्याः समाशिकाः V. 2. 115. -3 the num - rator of a fraction; अन्योन्यहाराभिहतौ दरांशौ Lila.; sometimes used for fraction itself.-4 A degree of latitude (or longitude); अक्षस्यांशाः समाख्याताः षष्ठपुत्तरशतत्रयम् स च अंशः षष्टिकलात्मकः, कला तु षष्टिविकलात्मिका. -6 The shoulder (more correctly written as 3, q. v.).-6 N. of one of the Adityas; Mb. 1.227.25; cf. also the beginning of T. A. The senses of party', 'a share of booty,' earnest money, which are said to occur in the Veda are traceable to 1 above. -7 The vital note in a Raga. -Comp.ia: [..] a secondary incarnation; part of a portion. - अंशि adr. share by share. -अवतारः -तरणम् [ ष. त. ] descent (on earth) of parts of deities, partial incarnation; तर इव धर्मस्य Dk. 153; रमित्र कृतान्तस्य K. 31; ° उच्चैःश्रवसः 79 80 108; N. of a sub-parvum covering Adhyay 64-67 of Adiparvan of Mb. Even without the compound