avaśa
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[apte] a. [nāsti vaśaṃ āyattatvaṃ yasya] 1 Independent, free. --2 Not com- pliant or docile, disobedient, self- willed; strī cāvaśā Pt. 1. 424; Ms. 5. 33. --3 Not subjected to or swayed; avaśo viṣayāṇāṃ K. 45; uncontrolled, unrestrained; ºiṃdriyacittānāṃ H. 1. 18; 2. 182; Dk. 34; madhurairavaśāni laṃ- bhayan vaśaṃ Ki. 2. 55 wild. --4 Not master of oneself, subject to the senses; kamaparamavaśaṃ na viprakuryuḥ Ku. 6. 95....
[mw] mf (A) n. unsubmissive to another's will, independent, unrestrained, free, AV. vi, 42, 3 & 43, 3, &c 104,1 18129 mf (A) n. not having one's own free will, doing something against one's desire or unwillingly Mn. v, 33; Bhag. &c 013236 104,1 18130 mfn. not being in any one's (gen.) power. 013237 104,1 18131 n. not submissive to each other, N. of a special Sandhi saṃdhi (in which the two sounds meeting each other...
Root
√ava अव
to protect,to go, to desire, to wish, to love, to please, to satisfy, to enter, to hear, to own, to order, to command, to request, to beg, to act, to glow, to shine, to obtain, to hug, to embrace, to kill, to hurt, to grow, to gain power
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a. [nāsti vaśaṃ āyattatvaṃ yasya] 1 Independent, free. --2 Not com- pliant or docile, disobedient, self- willed; strī cāvaśā Pt. 1. 424; Ms. 5. 33. --3 Not subjected to or swayed;...
Corpus Profile
- Part of Speech
- NOUN
- Total Occurrences
- 93
- Texts Appeared In
- 24
DCS: service of another | Monier-Williams: A-vAsa See A- √ 5. vas , col. 1.
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Concordance (Sample)
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āvāsā bahubhakṣyā vai sarvakāmair upasthitāḥ
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tasyās tīre tataś cakrus te āvāsaparigraham
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ity uktā sā varārohā tatrāvāsam athākarot