apuṣṭa

Dictionary meanings for apuṣṭa from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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apuṣṭa

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. 1 Not nourished or fed, lean, not fat.

2 Not loud or vio- lent, soft, low (as sound).

3 (In Rhet.) Not feeding orassisting (the meaning), irrelevant (mukhyānupakā- rin), regarded as one of the artha- doshas (faults of the sense or mean- ing); as in the instance given un- [Page0118-c+ 56] der S. D. 576 vilokya vitate vyomni vidhuṃ muṃca ruṣaṃpriye, the adjective vitata ‘ex- panded,’ as applied, to the sky,...

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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

mfn. unnourished, lean 56,1 10291 mfn. soft L. 56,1 10292 mfn. invalid, unimportant Kpr. 007486 56,1 10293 mfn. (in rhet.) of irrelevant purport or meaning, Sa1h. 1314,3 10293.1

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