Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

pratyāhāra प्रत्याहार – withdrawal of the senses; sensory withdrawal

substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

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AYI dictionary substantive masculine

withdrawal of the senses; sensory withdrawal

Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

pratyāhāra ·m. = prec., dissolution, destruction; comprehension or comprehensive word (g.).

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · English · substantive masculine

Praty-āhāra, as, m. drawing back (troops from a battle), marching back, retreat; withholding; with- drawing the senses from external objects, restraint of the organs of sense, abstraction; the reabsorption or dissolution of the world; (in grammar) the compre- hension of a series of letters or affixes into one syllable effected by combining the first member of the series without its indicatory letter or letters with the indicatory final consonant of the last member, a group or class of letters so combined (for the concise expression of grammatical rules; thus the Praty- āhāra ac is the technical term for the letters a, i, u, ṛ, ḷ, e, o, ai, au, or all the vowels, and the Praty-āhāra hal is the term for all the consonants); compendium, abridgment; substitution (?).

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

pratyāhāra praty-āhāra. See below.

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine

pratyāhāra (wie eben) m. 1〉 das Zurückziehen (der Truppen aus der Schlacht). Rückzug MBH. 8,348. pratyāhāraścendriyāṇāṃ viṣayānmanasā hṛdi das Zurückziehen der Sinne von den Sinnesgegenständen BHĀG. P. 3,28,5. YOGAS. 2,54. — 2〉 das Zurückziehen der Sinne von den Sinnesgegenständen VEDĀNTAS. (Allah.) No. 132 (s. u. pratyāharaṇa 2). VEDĀNTAS. (Allah.) 127. AK. 3,3,16. H. 83. H. 1524. M. 6,72 (= BHĀG. P. 3,28,11. MĀRK. P. 39,10). MBH. 12,7841. YOGAS. 2,29. ŚĀNTIŚ. 4,16. VP. 653. MĀRK. P. 39,33. MĀRK. P. 39,42. VĀYU-P._in_Verz. d. Oxf. H. 50,b, N. 3. PRAB. 8,14. Verz. d. B. H. No. 648. MADHUS._in_Ind. St. 1,22,22. — 3〉 Zurückziehung der Welt so v. a. Auflösung derselben MBH. 12,8555. — 4〉 in der Gramm. Zusammenfassung einer ganzen Reihe von Buchstaben oder Suffixen in eine einzige geschlossene Silbe, indem man das erste Glied der Reihe (mit Abwerfung eines etwaigen stummen Consonanten) mit dem stummen Schlussconsonanten des letzten Gliedes verbindet; s. BÖHTLINGK in seiner Ausgabe d. P. II, 33. fgg. P. 3,4,78, Sch.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

pratyāhāra 2〉 Ind. St. 9,25. fg. — 5〉 Bez. eines best. Bestandtheils des pūrvaraṅga SĀH. D. 281.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

pratyāhāra m. — 1〉 Zurückziehung (der Truppen aus der Schlacht), Rückzug. — 2〉 das Zurückziehen (der Sinne) von (Abl.). — 3〉 Zurückziehung der Sinne von den Sinnesobjecten. — 4〉 Zurückziehung (des Geschaffenen), so v. a. Auflösung, Vernichtung. — 5〉 in der Gramm. von Lauten oder Suffixen in eine einzige geschlossene Silbe, indem man das erste Glied der Reihe (mit Abwerfung eines etwaigen stummen Consonanten) mit dem stummen Consonanten des letzten Gliedes verbindet Chr. 238,32. — 6〉 in der Dramatik Bez. eines best. Bestandtheils des Pūrvaraṅga. — 7〉 Anrede. ˚raṃ kar Jmd (Gen.) anreden KĀRAṆḌ. 54,9. 11. 55,8. 15. 20. 56,8. 11. 14. Richtig wohl pravyāhāra. — 8〉 Laut, Klang KĀRAṆḌ. 90,14. Richtig wohl pravyāhāra.

Apte 1890 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

pratyāhāraḥ 1 Drawing back, marching back, retreat. 2 Keeping back, withholding. 3 Restraining the organs. 4 Dissolution of the world, 5 (In gram.) The comprehension of several letters or affixes into one syllable, effected by combining the first letter of a Sūtra with its final indicatory letter, or in the case of several Sūtras, with the final letter of the last member; thus aṇ is the pratyāhāra of the Sūtra aïuṇ; ac (vowels) of the four Sūtras aïuṇ, ṛḷk, eoṅ, aiauc; hal of the consonants; al of all letters. 6 Abridgment.

Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

pratyāhāra m. dass.; Auflösung, Verletzung; Gruppenwort (g.).

Burnouf 1866 substantive masculine

Original text · French · substantive masculine

pratyāhāra m. mms. Abrégé; sommaire.

Occurrences in source texts (7)

DYS 3 occurrences
DYS 27–31: Survey of Haṭha 1 occurrence

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DYS 89–93: Stages of Development 1 occurrence

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DYS 94–97: Pratyāhāra 1 occurrence

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PYS 2 occurrences
PYS 2.27–29: Aṣṭāṅga as a Path to Liberation 1 occurrence

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PYS 2.54-55: Pratyāhāra 1 occurrence

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SiSa 2 occurrences
SiSa 3.55-3.60: Ghaṭāvasthā 1 occurrence

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SiSa 5.10-5.14: Subtile Hindernisse 1 occurrence

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