भिक्षाटनbhikṣāṭana

भिक्षाटन (bhikṣāṭana) is a Sanskrit word meaning wandering about for alms, the name of a poet, a chapter of the Brahmanda Purana, begging or mendicancy, begging for alms, a mendicant. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them The act of begging/mendicancy, Begging (act/agent) or adjectival, Proper Name.

Root
कृ (kṛ)
Etymology
E. भिक्षा alms, and अटन going about for
Definitions
10
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Meanings by context

The act of begging/mendicancy

5 definitions
wandering about for alms

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Begging or mendicancy

Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Begging

Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

going about for alms

Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

begging for alms

Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Begging (act/agent) or adjectival

2 definitions
wandering about for alms

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Begging or mendicancy. 2. A mendicant.

Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Proper Name

2 definitions
the name of a poet

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a chapter of the Brahmanda Purana

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

A beggar/mendicant

1 definition
a mendicant

Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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Definitions on this page come from 6 works: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.