श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताBhagavad Gītā · in the light of Sri Aurobindo, home
Sign in
ApteAll dictionariesSanskrit dictionaryDhātuPāṇiniConjugationDeclensionInflected formsParts of speechWord frequencyTree diagramAnalyzerRootsQuarter-verse indexMemorable linesNames

कोशःDictionaries

Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

Results for प्रत्याहार

2 dictionaries · exact headword

Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. प्रत्याहारpratyāhāra1 Drawing back, marching back, retreat.
    1. 1 Drawing back, marching back, retreat.
    2. Keeping back, withholding.
    3. Restraining the organs; स्वविषयाऽसंप्रयोगे चित्तस्य स्वरूपानुकार इवेन्द्रियाणां प्रत्या- हारः Pātañjala.
    4. Dissolution of the world; प्रत्याहारं तु वक्ष्यामि शर्वर्यादौ गतेऽहनि Mb.12.233.1.
    5. (In Grammar) The comprehension of several letters or affixes into one syllable, effected by combining the first letter of a Sūtra with its final indicatory letter, or in the case of several Sūtras, with the final letter of the last member; thus अण् is the प्रत्याहार of the Sūtra अइउण्; अच् (vowels) of the four Sūtras अइउण्, ऋलृक्, एओङ्, ऐऔच्; हल् of the consonants; अल् of all letters.
    6. Abridgment.
    7. (In drama) Name of a particular part of the पूर्वरङ्ग.
    Source: Apte

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. प्रत्याहारpratyāhāram. drawing back (troops from a battle), retreat MBh.
    1. masculine gender drawing back (troops from a battle), retreat MBh.
    2. masculine gender withdrawal (especially of the senses from external objects), abstraction MBh. Mn. Pur. Veda7ntas. (confer, compare IW. 93)
    3. masculine gender withdrawing (of created things), re-absorption or dissolution of the world MBh.
    4. masculine gender (in gram.) the comprehension of a series of letters or roots etc. into one syllable by combining for shortness the first member with the Anubandha अनुबन्ध (sub voce, the word in the Sanskrit order) of the last member
    5. masculine gender a group of letters etc. so combined (as अच् or हल् in the S3ivaSu1tras शिवसूत्र s) Pa1n2. 1-1, 1 etc.
    6. masculine gender (in dramatic language) Name of a particular part of the Pu1rva-ran3ga पूर्व-रङ्ग (sub voce, the word in the Sanskrit order) Sa1h.
    7. masculine gender speaking to, address (that the rest of a word is to be suppliedरं-√कृ, with genitive case, to speak to a person) Ka1ran2d2. (probably wrong reading for प्रव्याह्that the rest of a word is to be supplied)
    8. masculine gender sound ibidem (probably wrong reading for the same)
    Source: Monier-Williams

Analysis (Beta) · प्रत्याहार

morphology by sanskrit_parser

Analysis unavailable: the morphological analyzer is not running on this server.