saṃsāraḥ

Dictionary meanings for saṃsāraḥ from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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saṃsāraḥ

Normalized lookup: samsarah

Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1 Course, passage.

2 The course or circuit of worldly life, secular life, mundance existence, the world; asāraḥ saṃsāraḥ U. 1; Māl. 5. 30; saṃsāradhanvabhuvi kiṃ sāramāmṛśasi śaṃ- sādhunā śubhamate Aśvad. 22; or parivarti- ni saṃsāre mṛtaḥ ko vā na jāyate Pt. 1. 27.

3 Transmigration, metempsy- chosis, succession of births.

4 Worldly illusion. Comp. gamanaṃ transmigration. guruḥ 1. an epithet of the god...

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