Svasara, Svashara, Svaśara, Sva-shara: 5 definitions

Introduction
In Hinduism
1. Purana
2. General definition
Languages
1. Sanskrit
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Introduction:

Svasara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Svaśara can be transliterated into English as Svasara or Svashara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation

Svaśara (स्वशर) refers to “one’s own arrows”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.4.8 (“The battle between the gods and Asuras”).—Accordingly, as Brahmā narrated to Nārada: “[...] The heroic Asura Tāraka, the slayer of enemies, immediately split the arrows of the gods by his own sharp arrows (svaśara). The Asura Tāraka then quickly hit Viṣṇu with his spear. On being hit thus, Viṣṇu fell unconscious on the ground. In a trice, Viṣṇu got up and in rage seized his discus that was blazing with flames and he roared like a lion. [...]”.

context information

The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

General definition (in Hinduism)

Source: archive.org: Vedic index of Names and Subjects

Svasara (स्वसर) according to the St. Petersburg Dictionary, denotes ‘cattle stall’, and more generally ‘dwelling-place’, ‘house’, and then ‘nest of birds’. Geldner, however, shows that the real sense is the ‘wandering at will’ of cattle, more precisely their ‘grazing in the morning’, and in the case of birds their ‘early flight’ from the nest, while metaphorically it is applied first to the morning pressing of Soma and then to all three pressings.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Svasara (स्वसर).—[neuter] fold, stable, wont place, nest, house, home.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Svasara (स्वसर):—[=sva-sara] [from sva] a See sub voce

2) Svasāra (स्वसार):—[=sva-sāra] [from sva] a (sva-) n. = -sara, [Ṛg-veda]

3) Svasara (स्वसर):—b n. (perhaps [from] sva + sara, ‘one’s own resort’) a stall, fold, [Ṛg-veda]

4) one’s own place, home, [ib.; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]

5) nest of birds, [Ṛg-veda]

6) day, [Naighaṇṭuka, commented on by Yāska]

7) Svasāra (स्वसार):—[from svasara] b n. = svasara, [Ṛg-veda i, 178, 2.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Svasara in German

context information

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.

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