Avasthatraya, Avastha-traya, ٳٰⲹ: 4 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryavasthātraya (अवस्थात्रय).—n S The three states or stages of human life, viz. youth, maturity, old age. 2 The three states,--waking, dreaming, sound sleep.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAvasthatraya (अवस्थत्र�).—the three states; i. e. जागृति (岵ṛt) (waking); स्वप्न (svapna) (dreaming), and सुषुप्ति (ṣuپ) (sound sleep).
Derivable forms: avasthatrayam (अवस्थत्रयम�).
Avasthatraya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms avastha and traya (त्रय).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionaryٳٰⲹ (अवस्थात्रय):—[=ٳ-ٰⲹ] [from ava-stha > ava-sthā] n. the three states (viz. waking, dreaming, and sound sleep), [Rāmatāpanīya-upaniṣad; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusٳٰⲹ (ಅವಸ್ಥಾತ್ರಯ):—[noun] the three wakeful, sleepy, and dreamy stage of consciousness.
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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Partial matches: Traya, Avastha.
Full-text: Avasthatritaya.
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