Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

ābhāsa आभास – appearance

substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

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AYI dictionary substantive masculine
Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

ābhāsa ·m. splendour, light; appearance, phantom.

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

Ā-bhāsa, as, m. splendor, light, colour, appear- ance; semblance, phantom; mere appearance; falla- cious appearance; reflection; intention, purpose; (in logic) fallacy, semblance of a reason, sophism, an erro- neous though plausible argument (regarded by logi- cians as of various kinds).

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine

ābhāsa (wie eben) m. Glanz, Licht, Farbe, Aussehen: (gadāṃ) bhāskarābhāsām R. 6,77,17. nabhaśca rudhirābhāsam R. 3,29,9. jāmbavābhāsau (oṣṭhau) SUŚR. 1,114,19. sarvendriyaguṇābhāsaṃ sarvendriyavivarjitam ŚVETĀŚV. UP. 3,17 = BHAG. 13,14. cidābhāsa BĀLAB. 33. BĀLAB. 37. satyagajābhāsa das Aussehen eines wirklichen Elephanten habend KATHĀS. 12,16. der blosse Schein, das blosse Abbild einer Sache, trügerische Erscheinung: hetvābhāsa Scheingrund Z. d. d. m. G. 7,287. BHĀṢĀP. 70. MADHUS._in_Ind. St. 1,18,4 v. u. bhāvatadābhāsādayaḥ SĀH. D. 7,1. rasābhāsaḥ SĀH. D. 7,13. yuktivākyatadābhāsasamāśrayāḥ ŚAṂK._in_WIND. Sancara 94. VEDĀNTAS._in_BENF. Chr. 211,16. BENF. Chr. 211,17. BENF. Chr. 215,19. BENF. Chr. 219,11.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

ābhāsa das Aussehen: śāliśūkanibhābhāsa R. 7,35,21. das Erscheinen, zum-Vorschein-Kommen (= sṛṣṭi Schol.; Gegens. nirodha) BHĀG. P. 2,10,7. blosser Schein BHĀG. P. 7,12,10. BHĀG. P. 7,15,12. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 75,1. uttarābhāsa Scheinantwort, eine ungenügende, unklare Antwort auf eine gerichtliche Klage VĪR. 25,b,15. MIT. II, 4,b,11. VYAVAHĀRAT. 18,12 (uttarābhāṣa gedr.). jñānyābhāsa KATHĀS. 121,176. ābhāsatā SARVADARŚANAS. 18,9. SĀH. D. 121. SĀH. D. 14. ābhāsatva SĀH. D. 270.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine

ābhāsa m. (adj. Comp. f. ā) — 1〉 Glanz, Licht Chr. 282,11. Farbe, Aussehen. — 2〉 blosser Schein, Trugbild Chr. 272,30. Chr. 273,10.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

ābhāsa I. = hetvābhāsa ANIRUDDHA zu SĀṂKHYAS. 1,101. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Apte 1890 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

ābhāsaḥ [bhās-ac] 1 Splendour, light, lustre. 2 A reflection; tatrājñānaṃ dhiyā naśyedābhāsāttu ghaṭaḥ sphuret Vedānta. 3 (a) Resemblance, likeness; oft. at the end of comp.; nabhaśca rudhirābhāsaṃ Rām. &c.; cidābhāsa, (b) Semblance, phantom; yuktivākyatadābhāsasamāśrayāḥ S.B.; tatsāhasābhāsaṃ Māl. 2 looks like wantonness. 4 Any unreal or fallacious appearance (as in hetvābhāsa); punaruktavadābhāsaḥ S. D. 5 A fallacy, fallacious reasoning, semblance of a reason, an erroneous but plausible argument; see hetvābhāsa; S. D. 270. 6 An intention, purpose.

Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

ābhāsa m. Glanz, Aussehen; Schein, Trugbild.

Occurrences in source texts (2)

SVU 1 occurrence
SVU 3.13-3.18: In the Heart and in the World 1 occurrence

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VBT 1 occurrence
VBT 49–56: Heart and Dissolution 1 occurrence

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