pralaya प्रलय – dissolution; cosmic dissolution

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pralaya ·m. dissolution, destruction, esp. of the universe; °ghana m. & °dahana m. the cloud and the fire causing the end of the world.

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Pra-laya, as, m. dissolution, destruction, annihi- lation, reabsorption; the destruction of the whole world at the end of a Kalpa or period of 432, 000, 000 years [cf. kalpa]; any extensive destruction or de- vastation; death, dying; fainting, syncope, loss of sense or consciousness; an epithet of the mystic syllable om.

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pralaya pra-laya, &c. See pra-lī below.

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pralaya (von lī mit pra) m. 1〉 Auflösung, Vernichtung, Tod, Vernichtung —, Ende der Welt AK. 1,1,3,22. AK. 2,8,2,84. H. 161. H. an. 3,494. MED. y. 89. vṛddhaṃ pralayamupagacchamānam ṢAḌV. BR. 4,6. MÜLLER, SL. 105. yadā sattve pravṛddhe tu pralayaṃ yāti dehabhṛt BHAG. 14,14. fg. bhaumamidaṃ sthāvarajaṅgamam — pralayaṃ vai gamiṣyati MATSYOP. 27. bhūtāni jajñire tasmātpralayaṃ yānti tatra hi MBH. 5,1713. khe vāyuḥ pralayaṃ yāti MBH. 12,12894. HARIV. 2956. ˚sthitisargāṇām KUMĀRAS. 2,6. pralayodayau KUMĀRAS. 8. SUŚR. 1,77,5. SUŚR. 1,77,6. KATHĀS. 28,182. BHAG. 14,2. trijagatpralaya VET. in LA. 5,1. ŚAṂK._zu_CHĀND. UP. S. 77. fg. SIDDHĀNTAŚIR. 7,15. VP. 56. VP. 621. VP. 630. VP. 634. VP. 638. mahāpralayakāraṇa MĀRK. P. 99,53. ˚dahana beim Untergang der Welt Spr. 98. pralayāntaga Beiw. der Sonne MĀRK. P. 109,65. prabalataranarapatipralayamahārṇava PRAB. 2,5. pralayātpituḥ durch den Tod des Vaters KATHĀS. 36,74. kuñjaraḥ pralayaṃ gataḥ Spr. 888. śaspe pralayaṃ gate zu Grunde gegangen Spr. 99. deśāśca pralayaṃ gatāḥ VET. in LA. 35,15. kiṃ kandāḥ kandarebhyaḥ pralayamupagatāḥ Spr. 665. Spr. 807. atha tānyeva karmāṇi te (rājānaḥ) cāpi pralayaṃ gatāḥ Spr. 3260. saṃjātanidrā˚ adj. so v. a. der ausgeschlafen hat PAÑCAT. 265,11. ahaṃ kṛtsnasya jagataḥ prabhavaḥ pralayastathā Ursache der Auflösung BHAG. 7,6. BṚHADD._in_Ind. St. 1,113,3 v. u. — 2〉 Ohnmacht AK. 1,1,7,33. H. 307. H. an. MED. pralayaḥ sukhaduḥkhādyairgāḍhamindriyamūrchanam PRATĀPAR. 50,b,5. SĀH. D. 63,2. SĀH. D. 63,11. SUŚR. 1,329,14. indriya˚ DHĀTUP. 28,15. — 3〉 Bez. der Silbe om Ind. St. 2,55.

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pralaya 1〉 khalaḥ kālākṛṣṭaḥ pralayamupasarpatvaharahaḥ möge zu Grunde gehen HIT. II, 175. rākṣasakulapralayadhūmaketu UTTARARĀMAC. 65,3 (83,10). naimittika BHĀG. P. 12,4,4. prākṛtika 6. — 2〉 SĀH. D. 235. — Vgl. mahā˚.

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pralaya 4〉 Untergang (von Sternen) Spr. (II) 1662 (Conj.).

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pralaya m. — 1〉 Auflösung, Vernichtung Tod, Vernichtung —, Ende der Welt. — 2〉 Untergang (der Gestirne). — 3〉 Ende überh. saṃjātanidrā˚ Adj. der ausgeschlafen hat. — 4〉 Ursache der Auflösung. — 5〉 Ohnmacht. — 6〉 *Schläfrigkeit GAL.

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pralayaḥ 1 Destruction, annihilation, dissolution; syānāni kiṃ himavataḥ pralayaṃ gatāni Bh. 3. 70, Bh. 3. 69; pralayaṃ nītvā Śi. 11. 66 ‘causing to disappear’. ([Page 0758-c]) 2 The destruction of the whole universe (at the end of a kalpa), universal destruction; Ku. 2. 8; Bg. 7. 6. 3 Any extensive destruction or devastation. 4 Death, dying, destruction; prārabdhāḥ pralayāya māṃsavadaho vikretumete vayaṃ Mu. 5. 21; Mu. 1. 14; Bg. 14. 14. 5 Swoon, fainting, loss of consciousness, syncope; pralayāṃtonmiṣite vilocane Ku. 4. 2. 6 (In Rhet.) Loss of consciousness, considered as one of the 33 subordinate feelings; pralayaḥ sukhaduḥkhādyairgāḍhamiṃdriyamūrchanaṃ Pratāparudra. 7 The mystic syllable om. Comp. — kālaḥ the time of universal destruction. — jaladharaḥ a cloud at the dissolution of the world. — dahanaḥ the fire at the dissolution of the world. — payodhiḥ the ocean at the dissolution of the world.

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pralaya m. Auflösung, Vernichtung, Untergang, Ende, Weltende.

Original text · French · substantive masculine

pralaya pralaya m. (lī; sfx. a) dissolution; au fig. destruction, mort; la dissolution de l'univers à la fin du kalpa. Syncope, évanouissement. pralayānta a. (anta) qui finit avec la mort, avec l'univers.