bāhya

Dictionary meanings for bāhya from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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bāhya

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. [bahirbhavaḥ ṣyañ ṭilopaḥ] 1 Outer, outward, external, exterior, being or situated without; virahaḥ kimivānutāpayedvada bāhyairviṣayairvipaścitaṃ R. 8. 89; bāhyodyāna Me. 7; Ku. 6. 46; bāhyanāman ‘the outer name’, i. e. the address or superscription writ- ten on the back of a letter; adatta- bāhyatāmānaṃ lekhaṃ lekhayitvā Mu. 1.

2 Foreign, strange; Pt. 1.

3 Exclud- ed from, out of the pale of; jātā-...

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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

mf (A) n. (fr. bahis; in later language also written vāhya q.v.; m. nom. pl. b/āhye S3Br.) being outside (a door, house, &c), situated without (abl. or comp.), outer, exterior (acc. with kṛ, to turn out, expel) AV. &c, &c 730,3 145055 mf (A) n. not belonging to the family or country, strange, foreign MBh.; Ka1v. &c Page731,1 145056 mf (A) n. excluded from caste or the community, an out-caste Mn.; MBh. &c 731,1...

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