Aprasakti, Aprashakti: 8 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAprasakti (अप्रसक्ति).—f. Non-attachment, moderation. विषयेष्वप्रसक्तिश्च क्षत्रियस्य समासतः (viṣayeṣvaprasaktiśca kṣatriyasya samāsataḥ) Manusmṛti 1.89.
Derivable forms: aprasaktiḥ (अप्रसक्तिः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryApraśakti (अप्रशक्ति).—f.
(-ktiḥ) Moderation. mfn. (-ktiḥ-ktiḥ-kti) Moderate, temperate. E. a neg. praśakti addiction to any thing.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryAprasakti (अप्रसक्ति).—f. absence of attachment, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 1, 89.
Aprasakti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms a and prasakti (प्रसक्ति).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryAprasakti (अप्रसक्ति).—[feminine] non-attachment to, abstinence from ([locative]).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAprasakti (अप्रसक्ति):—[=a-prasakti] [from a-prasakta] f. non-addiction, non-attachment to ([locative case]), [Manu-smṛti i, 89.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryApraśakti (अप्रशक्ति):—[tatpurusha compound] f.
(-ktiḥ) Moderation. E. a neg. and praśakti.
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Aprasakti (अप्रसक्ति):—[tatpurusha compound] f.
(-ktiḥ) 1) Want of attachment.
2) Want of connexion (e. g. of the negation with the notion expressed by the verbal action, comp. the preceding); e. g. in Mādhava's Jaim.-nyāyam.: na saṃvadeta malavadvāsasetyapi pūrvavat . pumarthaḥ syātkratau kvāpi saṃvādasyāprasaktitaḥ E. a neg. and prasakti.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusAprasakti (ಅಪ್ರಸಕ್ತಿ):—[noun] = ಅಪ್ರಸಕ್ತತೆ [aprasaktate].
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 1.89 < [Section LVI - Distribution of Functions among the several castes, part 2: of the Kṣatriya]