Dharmalib

avaśa

Dictionary Definitions

[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

Gaṇa 1· bhvadi· Parasmaipada · rakṣaṇagatikāntiprītitṛptyavagamapraveśaśravaṇasvāmyarthayācanakriyecchādīptyavāptyāliṅganahiṃsādānabhāgavṛddhiṣu

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.

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

  1. Mahābhārata 17 18.3%
  2. Liṅgapurāṇa 15 16.1%
  3. Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha 12 12.9%
  4. Rāmāyaṇa 11 11.8%
  5. Daśakumāracarita 5 5.4%

Concordance (Sample)

  • Rāmāyaṇa surface: āvāsā

    āvāsā bahubhakṣyā vai sarvakāmair upasthitāḥ

  • Rāmāyaṇa surface: āvāsa

    tasyās tīre tataś cakrus te āvāsaparigraham

  • Rāmāyaṇa surface: āvāsam

    ity uktā sā varārohā tatrāvāsam athākarot

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