Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

parāpara परापर – —Parāpara (˚ra-ap˚), as, ā, am, the more distant and near, far and near, remote and proximate, prior and posterior…

adjective · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

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Cappeller 1891 substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive neuter

parāpara ·n. the far and near, more and less, better and worse, earlier and later, cause and effect; abstr. °tā f., °tva n.

Monier-Williams 1872 adjective

Original text · English · adjective

—Parāpara (˚ra-ap˚), as, ā, am, the more distant and near, far and near, remote and proximate, prior and posterior, before and behind, earlier and later (as cause and effect), higher and lower, best and worst; (as), m. a Guru of an intermediate class, a term applied in the Tantras to the goddess Durgā; (am), n. (in logic) community of property intermediate between the greatest and smallest numbers, species (as being between genus and individual); a species of plant (= parūṣaka).

Petersburger 1855 adjective · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · adjective · substantive neuter

parāpara (para + apara) adj. n. 1〉 das Entferntere und Nähere, Frühere und Spätere (Ursache und Wirkung), Höhere und Niedere: ˚jña MBH. 3,13933. MBH. 12,760. MBH. 15,935. KĀM. NĪTIS. 12,49. ˚dṛṣṭārtha HARIV. 2879. dṛṣṭa˚ MBH. 12,643. R. 5,48,7. PRAB. 87. PRAB. 15 (s. v. l.) indriyaparāparajñānabala BURN._in_Lot. de la b. l. 786. — 2〉 n. eine best. Pflanze = parūṣaka BHĀVAPR._im_ŚKDR. — Vgl. parāvara.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

parāpara 1〉 ˚parijñānānabhijña nicht den Bessern vom Schlechtern zu unterscheiden verstehend Spr. 2517.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive neuter

Original text · German · substantive neuter

parāpara n. — 1〉 das Entferntere und Nähere. — 2〉 das Frühere und Spätere (Ursache und Wirkung). — 3〉 das Höhere und Niedere, Bessere und Schlechtere. — 4〉 Grewia asiatica.

Cappeller 1887 substantive neuter

Original text · German · substantive neuter

parāpara n. das Fernere und Nähere, Frühere und Spätere, Höhere und Niedrigere, (Ursache u. Wirkung). Abstr. ˚tā f., ˚tva n.

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