Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

aṣṭama अष्टम – eighth

adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

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AYI dictionary adjective
Cappeller 1891 Word type unspecified

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

aṣṭamá ·f. ī eighth.

Monier-Williams 1872 adjective

Original text · English · adjective

Aṣṭama, as, ī, am, the eighth; (as), m. the eighth part; (ī), f. (scil. rātri), the eighth day (night) in a half-month; N. of the medicinal plant Kṣīrakākolī, the last of a class of eight medicinal plants.

Petersburger 1855 adjective · substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine

aṣṭama (von aṣṭan) 1〉 adj. aṣṭamá, f. ī́ der achte ṚV. 2,5,2. kamṛ̱tvijā̀maṣṭa̱maṃ śūràmāhuḥ ṚV. 10,114,9. AV. 13,4,18. a̱ṣṭa̱mīṃ rā̱trīm AV. 8,9,21. VS. 25,4. ŚAT. BR. 1,4,1,36. ŚAT. BR. 8,5,2,7. KĀTY. ŚR. 16,2,1. M. 2,36. M. 2,37. M. 3,21. M. 3,34. u. s. w. — 2〉 m. áṣṭama ein Achtel P. 5,3,51. dhānye 'ṣṭamaṃ viśāṃ śulkam (āhārayet) M. 10,120. oxyt., wenn von einem paśvaṅga die Rede geht P. 5,3,52. — 3〉 f. ˚mī. a〉 sc. rātri, der achte Tag (Nacht) im Halbmonat ĀŚV. GṚHY. 2,4. M. 4,128. YĀJÑ. 1,146. KATHĀS. 7,71. DEV. 12,3. VET. 16,14. Z. d. d. m. G. 6,92. aṣṭamīvratavidhāna Titel eines Werkes TROYER_in_RĀJA-TAR. I, p. 371, N. Vgl. anaghāṣṭamī. — b〉 N. einer Arzeneipflanze (kṣīrakākolī) ŚABDAC._im_ŚKDR.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

aṣṭama 1〉 ˚bhakta die achte Mahlzeit (so dass 7 Mahlzeiten übersprungen werden) ŚATR. 14,321. kṛtāṣṭama so v. a. kṛtāṣṭamabhakta 16. — 2〉 AV. PRĀT. 1,102.

Böhtlingk 1879 adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

aṣṭama — 1〉 Adj. — a〉 oxyt. (f. ī́) der achte. — b〉 den achten Theil von (Gen.) betragend GAUT. 10,24. ŚULBAS. 3,123. — 2〉 m. Achtel. — 3〉 f. ī — a〉 der achte Tag in einem Halbmonat. — b〉 *eine best. Pflanze. — 4〉 n. = aṣṭamabhakta Spr. 739.

Apte 1890 adjective · substantive masculine

Original text · English · adjective · substantive masculine

aṣṭama a. (mī f.) Eighth; garbhāṣṭame'bde kurvīta brāhmaṇasyopanāyanaṃ Ms. 2. 36. — maḥ The eighth part. — mī 1 The eighth day in a lunar half month; caturdaśyaṣṭamī caiva amāvāsyā ca pūrṇimā . parvāṇyetāni rājeṃdra ravisaṃkrātireva ca ... 2 N. of a medical plant (koṭālatā). [cf. L. octavus; Zend. astemo]. Comp. — aṃśaḥ an 8th part. — kālika a. [aṣṭamaḥ kālaḥ bhojane'styasya ṭhan] one who omits seven meal times (i. e. full three days and the morning of the fourth) and partakes only of the 8th; Ms. 6. 19. — bhāvaḥ the eighth condition or position (in astr.).

Cappeller 1887 Word type unspecified

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

aṣṭamá f. ī der achte; m. Achtel.

Burnouf 1866 adjective

Original text · French · adjective

aṣṭama a. huitième. — S. f. aṣṭamī le 8ᵉ jour de la quinzaine.

Occurrences in source texts (2)

DYS 1 occurrence
DYS 27–31: Survey of Haṭha 1 occurrence

Direct occurrences

GoS 1 occurrence
GoS 67–73: Examining Obstacles 1 occurrence

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