prayatna प्रयत्न – effort; exertion

Original text · English · substantive masculine

prayatna ·m. effort, endeavour, pains at (loc. or --°), activity; °--, instr., & abl. with pains, carefully; hardly, scarcely.

Original text · English · substantive masculine

Pra-yatna, as, m. persevering effort, continued exertion or endeavour, exertion bestowed on anything (with the object in the loc., or as the first member of a comp.; cf. kṛta-p˚); activity of will; activity, action, act; great care, caution, care; difficulty; (in philosophy) active effort of three kinds, viz. engaging in any act, prosecuting it, and completing it; (in grammar) effort in uttering, effort or movement of the mouth or breath in the production of articulate utterance, mode of articulation, (also āsya-pra- yatna; distinguished into ābhyantara-p˚, inter- nal effort, and vāhya-p˚, external effort); prayat- nena, prayatnāt, prayatnais, prayatna-tas, ind. with especial effort, with particular care or pains, diligently, carefully, earnestly, zealously, with all one's might; particularly, especially; with difficulty, hardly, scarcely.

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prayatna (wie eben) m. 1〉 Willensthätigkeit, Bestrebung, Bemühung; Activität überh. KAṆ. 1,1,6. KAṆ. 1,1,29. KAṆ. 3,2,3. KAṆ. 3,2,4. ātmasaṃyogaprayatnābhyāṃ haste karma KAṆ. 5,1,1. TARKAS. 3. īkṣaṇasaṃkalpaprayatna VEDĀNTAŚIKH._bei_NĪLAK. 198. YOGAS. 2,47. SUŚR. 1,312,16. ŚAṂK._zu_CHĀND. UP. S. 24. prayatnastu phalaprāptyai vyāpāro 'titvarānvitaḥ PRATĀPAR. 20,b,7. tathā prayatnamātiṣṭhedyathātmānaṃ na pīḍayet M. 7,68. pituḥ prayatnāt RAGH. 3,22. na śikṣitaḥ prayatno hi dhīrāṇāṃ hṛdaye bhiyā VID. 82. prayatne samake kecideva syuḥ phalabhāginaḥ Spr. 1867. sarve prayatnāḥ śithilībhavanti Spr. 3114. kṛta˚ der sich alle Mühe giebt, Nichts ausser Acht lässt Spr. 208. vilokya tairapyadhunā pracāramayaṃ prayatnaḥ puruṣottamasya TRIK. 1,1,2. Das Object, auf welches die Bemühung, Sorgfalt gerichtet wird, steht im loc. oder geht im comp. voran: evaṃ prayatnaṃ kurvīta yānaśayyāsanāśane . snāne prasādhane caiva sarvālaṃkārakeṣu ca .. M. 7,220. tvannigrahe tu — na me prayatnaḥ MṚCCH. 10,21. alaṃ prayatnena tavātra RAGH. 3,50. iṣuprayoge — vitathaprayatnaḥ RAGH. 2,42. āpīnabhārodvahana˚ 18. prayatnena (M. 3,79. M. 3,206. M. 4,161. M. 5,6. M. 7,45. M. 7,172. M. 8,418. M. 9,7. SĀV. 2,22. Spr. 1250. Spr. 2316, v. l. Spr. 2867. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 52,123. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 59,16. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 77,10), prayatnāt (BHAG. 6,45. SUŚR. 1,161,17. Spr. 383. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 77,2) und prayatnatas (M. 1,103. M. 2,24. M. 3,123. M. 3,166. M. 4,127. M. 6,91. M. 7,99. M. 7,155. M. 7,206. M. 8,310. M. 9,9. M. 9,333. R. 1,52,14. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 45,66. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 54,5. KATHĀS. 49,232) sorgfältig, angelegentlich, eifrig, nach Kräften, alles Ernstes. prayatnaiḥ dass. R. 2,26,34. verstärkt: prayatnena mahatā SUND. 3,15. sarveṇa tu prayatnena M. 7,71. sarvaprayatnena Spr. 3060. PAÑCAT. III, 243. prayatnaprekṣaṇīya mit Mühe —, kaum sichtbar ŚĀK. 5,11. prayatnamuktāsanā RAGH. 3,11. prayatnam n. VIKR. 143 schlechte Lesart für prayāso (fehlt bei BOLL.). Vgl. a˚ und niṣprayatna. — 2〉 āsya˚ und auch einfach prayatna Thätigkeit des Mundes bei Articulirung der Laute ṚV. PRĀT. 14,10. VS. PRĀT. 1,43. AV. PRĀT. 1,27. Schol. zu AV. PRĀT. 1,29. TS. PRĀT. 2,5. ŚIKṢĀ 12_in_Ind. St. 4,107. P. 1,1,9. laghuprayatnatara P. 8,3,18.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

prayatna 1〉 Z. 5 zur Definition aus PRATĀPAR. vgl. SĀH. D. 326.

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prayatna — 1〉 m. — a〉 Willensthätigkeit, Bestrebung, Bemühung, — um (Loc. oder im Comp. vorangehend); Activität überh. ˚tnena, ˚tnāt, ˚tnatas und tnais (einmal) sorgfältig, angelegentlich, eifrig, nach Kräften, alles Ernstes. prayatnāt (HARṢAC. 220,13) und prayatna˚ (vor einem passiven Verbalbegriff) mit Mühe, kaum. n. VIKR. 143 fehlerhaft. — b〉 Thätigkeit des Mundes bei Articulirung der Laute. Vollständig āsya˚. — 2〉 f. ā eine best. Śruti S. S. S. 24.

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prayatnaḥ 1 Effort, exertion, endeavour; R. 2. 56; Mu. 5. 20. 2 Persevering or continued effort; perseverance. 3 Labour, difficulty; prayatnaprekṣaṇīyaḥ saṃvṛttaḥ Ś. 1 ‘hardly visible’, ‘seen with difficulty’. 4 Great care, caution; kṛtaprayatno'pi gṛhe vinaśyati Pt. 1. 20. 5 (In gram.) Effort in uttering, effort of the mouth in the production of articulate sounds; see Sk. on P. VIII. 2. 1. 6 (In phil.) Active effort of three kinds; pravṛttiśca nivṛttiśca tathā jīvanakāraṇam . evaṃ prathatnatryaividhyaṃ tāṃtrikaiḥ paridarśitam. 7 Activity, action in general. ( prayatnataḥ, prayatnena-tnāt &c. ind. 1 With great effort, diligently. 2 Assiduously. 3 Hardly, scarcely. 4 Particularly, specially).

Original text · German · substantive masculine

prayatna m. Streben, Mühe um (Loc. o. —˚), Thätigkeit. ˚— mit Mühe, kaum. Instr., Abl. u. ˚tas angelegentlich, eifrig, absichtlich.

Original text · French · substantive neuter

prayatna n. (sfx. na) effort.