Intimate connection or contact
(H2) [Printed book page 159,1]
आ-श्लेष (ā-śleṣa) m. intimate connection, contact [ID=27730]
आ-श्लेष (ā-śleṣa) m. intimate connection, contact [ID=27730]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
आश्लेषाāśleṣā
आश्लेषा (āśleṣā) is a Sanskrit word meaning intimate connection or contact, slight contact, an embrace, intwining, adherence or clinging to, name of the seventh lunar mansion. Its 8 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them General Physical Contact or Adherence, The Nakshatra Āśleṣā, Embracing or Intwining.
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Meanings by context
General Physical Contact or Adherence
3 definitions
Slight contact
slight contact, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ID=27731]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
adherence or clinging to
adherence, clinging to, Nyāyamālā-vistara (Title) [ID=27734]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
The Nakshatra Āśleṣā
3 definitions
Name of the seventh lunar mansion
(H2B) [Printed book page 159,1]
आ-श्लेषा (ā-śleṣā) f. and (आस् (ās)) f. pl. N. of the seventh Nakṣatra, Atharva-veda (Title) ; Taittirīya-saṃhitā (Title) ; Suśruta (Title) ; Mahābhārata (Title) ; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā (Title) [ID=27735]
आ-श्लेषा (ā-śleṣā) f. and (आस् (ās)) f. pl. N. of the seventh Nakṣatra, Atharva-veda (Title) ; Taittirīya-saṃhitā (Title) ; Suśruta (Title) ; Mahābhārata (Title) ; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā (Title) [ID=27735]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
See ashlesha
आश्लेषा (āśleṣā) [Printed book page 112-03]
आश्लेषा (āśleṣā) f. See अश्लेषा (aśleṣā). [ID=5574]
आश्लेषा (āśleṣā) f. See अश्लेषा (aśleṣā). [ID=5574]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A specific point on the left hind foot of the Shishumara constellation. 2. The seventh nakshatra.
आश्लेषा (āśleṣā) [Printed book page 1-178]
Āśleṣā — on the left hind foot of the Śiśumāra.1 Its im- portance for śrāddha;2 the seventh nakṣatra.3
[Footnote: 1) Bhā. V. 23. 6; Br. II. 24. 135.]
[Footnote: 2) Br. III. 18. 5.]
[Footnote: 3) Vā. 82. 5.]
[ID=1447]
Āśleṣā — on the left hind foot of the Śiśumāra.1 Its im- portance for śrāddha;2 the seventh nakṣatra.3
[Footnote: 1) Bhā. V. 23. 6; Br. II. 24. 135.]
[Footnote: 2) Br. III. 18. 5.]
[Footnote: 3) Vā. 82. 5.]
[ID=1447]
— The Purana Index
Embracing or Intwining
2 definitions
An embrace
embracing, embrace [ID=27732]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
intwining
intwining, Mahābhārata (Title) ; Bhāgavata-purāṇa (Title) ; Meghadūta (Title) ; Amaru-śataka (Title) &c. [ID=27733]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
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Definitions on this page come from 3 works: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.