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Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary

निराहारnirāhāram. want of food, fasting Ya1jn5.
1. masculine gender want of food, fasting Ya1jn5.
2. mf(आ)neuter gender having no food or abstaining from it MBh. Hariv. etc.
In the Gita2·59

विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः ।

viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ, — If one abstains from food, the objects of sense cease to affect, but the affection itself of the sense, the rasa, remains; the rasa also ceases when… 2·59
- निराहारस्यnirāhārasyagenitive singular of the masculine form of the compound adjective nirāhāra (one who abstains from food).
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निराहारताnirāhāratāf. foodlessness, fasting MBh. Katha1s.

feminine foodlessness, fasting MBh. Katha1s.

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