prahara प्रहर – prahara; period of about three hours
substantive masculine · Word type unspecified
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AYI dictionary substantive masculine
prahara; period of about three hours
Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine
Original text · English · substantive masculine
prahara ·m. a watch i.e. a period of about 3 hours (lit. a stroke, scil. on a gong).
Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified
Original text · English · substantive masculine
Pra-hara, as, m. a particular division of time (comprising about three hours, = 6 or 7 Nāḍikas; so called from its lapse being announced by beating a gong); the eighth part of a day, a watch [cf. ardha- p˚]; a subdivision of Śrī-vasanta-rāja's work entitled Śākuna.
Original text · English · Word type unspecified
prahara pra-hara, &c. See pra-hṛ, col. 3.
Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified
Original text · German · substantive masculine
prahara (von har mit pra) m. 1〉 ein Zeitabschnitt von etwa drei Stunden AK. 1,1,3,6. H. 145. HALĀY. 1,106. = 6 oder 7 Nāḍikā BHĀG. P. 3,11,8. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 24,10. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 76,3. kṣaṇena prahareṇa vā PAÑCAT. 136,3. KATHĀS. 44,72. KATHĀS. 44,90. TARKAS. 51. Schol. zu KĀTY. ŚR. 969,2 v. u. PAÑCAT. ed. orn. 49,14. pāścātyaprahare divasasya 15. prātāprahare gate gegen 9 Uhr Morgens KATHĀS. 10,115. yāminyāḥ prathame prahare gate so v. a. gegen 9 Uhr Abends KATHĀS. 38,63. niśi — dvitīyasminprahare KATHĀS. 4,37. praharaviratau madhye vāhnaḥ um 9 Uhr Morgens oder um Mittagszeit Spr. 1883. gatasārdhapraharāyāṃ rātrau svapyāt d. i. 4 ¹⁄₂ Stunden nach Sonnenuntergang, 1 ¹⁄₂ Stunden vor Mitternacht KULL._zu_M. 7,225. — 2〉 Bez. von Unterabtheilungen im Śākuna des Śrivasantarāja Verz. d. B. H. No. 897. — Der Zeitabschnitt hat seinen Namen daher, dass man den Ablauf desselben durch Schlagen auf Metallglocken kundthat.
Original text · German · Word type unspecified
prahara 1〉 vāsarapraharaistribhiḥ KATHĀS. 59,89. sārdhapraharaikasamaye PAÑCAT. 237,3. die Zeit, da man auf der Wache ist, das Wachestehen: sa ca praharavāro 'bdaisteṣāmāyāti saptabhiḥ KATHĀS. 115,10.
Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine
Original text · German · substantive masculine
prahara m. (adj. Comp. f. ā) — 1〉 ein Zeitabschnitt von etwa drei Stunden. — 2〉 die Zeit da man auf der Wache ist, Wache. — 3〉 Bez. von Unterabtheilungen in einem Śākuna.
Apte 1890 substantive masculine
Original text · English · substantive masculine
praharaḥ The eighth part of a whole day, a watch (a period roughly reckoned at 3 hours); prahare prahare'sahoccāritāni gāmānayetyādipadāni na pramāṇaṃ T. S.
Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine
Original text · German · substantive masculine
prahara m. Wache ( = 3 Stunden).
Burnouf 1866 substantive masculine
Original text · French · substantive masculine
prahara prahara m. (hṛ) veille de 3 heures, 1/8 de l'ahorātra ou 180 muhūrtas.
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