प्रसूति (prasūti) is a Sanskrit word meaning instigation, order, or permission, procreation, birth, or bringing forth young, coming forth, appearance, and growth, a production or product, a procreator, father, or mother, a child, offspring, or progeny. Its 19 recorded definitions are grouped into 9 contexts, among them Act of Procreation or Birth, Prasūti, daughter of Manu/Vairāja & wife of Dakṣa, Instigation, Order, or Permission.
1. Bringing forth young. 2. Birth or production. 3. Offspring or children.
प्र (pra)सूति (prasūti) [Printed book page 582] प्र (pra)सूति (prasūti) f. (-तिः (-tiḥ))
1 Bringing forth, (as young.)
2 Birth, production.
3 Offspring, children, a son or daughter.
E. प्र (pra) before षू (ṣū) to bear, aff. क्तिन् (ktin).
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— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Bringing forth or birth. 2. Offspring. 3. Production.
प्रसूति (prasūti) [Printed book page 522-a] प्र-सूति (pra-sūti)(तिः) ((tiḥ)) 2. f. Bringing forth; birth; offspring; production. [ID=26335]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Procreation or generation.
2. Bringing forth or giving birth.
3. Calving or laying eggs.
4. A product or production.
5. A mother.
6. Offspring or progeny.
7. A producer.
8. Birth.
प्रसूति (prasūti) [Printed book page 483-04] प्रसूति (prasūti)f. 1. Procreation, generation; 2. bringing forth, bearing, delivering, R. xiv.66; 3. calving or laying eggs, नवप्रसूति (prasūti)र्वरटा तपस्विनी (navaprasūtirvaraṭā tapasvinī)Na. i.135; 4. a product, production; 5. a mother; 6. offspring, progeny; 7. a producer, a procreator, R. ii.63; 8. birth, generation, R. x.53. [ID=25050]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Bringing forth young. 2. Birth or production. 3. Offspring or children. 4. A mother. 5. A producer. 6. Calving or laying eggs.
1. Birth, production, or growth.
2. A parent, child, offspring, or grown fruit.
3. Urging, impelling, bidding, or permission.
प्रसूति (prasūti) [Printed book page 348] प्रसूति (prasūti)f. bringing forth, bearing, birth, production, coming forth, growth; f. father or mother, child, offspring, grown fruit; urging, impelling, bidding, permission. [ID=21089]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Procreating, bearing, or bringing forth. 2. Birth, production, or growth. 3. A mother or procreator. 4. Offspring, children, or progeny.
प्रसूति (prasūti) [Printed book page 0648-c] 1. pra-sūti, is, f. procreating, procreation, beget- ting, generating; bringing forth, bearing; calving; laying eggs; birth, production, generation; coming forth, growth (of fruits, flowers, leaves; cf. phala-p°); a production, product; a procreator, begetter; one who brings forth, a mother; offspring, children, progeny; N. of a daughter of Maru and wife of Dakṣa. —Prasūti-ja, am, n. ‘birth-produced,’ pain or affliction (mental or corporeal) resulting as a ne- cessary consequence of birth. —Prasūti-vāyu, us, m. air generated in the womb during the pangs of travail. [ID=33188]
A daughter of Svayambhuva Manu who married Daksha and gave birth to multiple daughters.
प्रसूति (prasūti) [Printed book page 2-431] Prasūti (I) — a daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu, married to Dakṣa: gave birth to sixteen (Twenty four Br. P.) daughters; was afraid of Vīrabhadra and his party in the sacrificial hall of her husband. Bhā. III. 12. 55-56; IV. 1. 1 and 11, 47-48; 5. 9. Br. I. 1. 59; II. 9. 42-7; Vā. 1. 66 and 68; Vi. I. 7. 18-19, 22-27. [ID=8678]
— The Purana Index
a daughter of Vairaja who was married to Daksha
Prasūti (III) — a daughter of Vairāja; was given in marriage to Dakṣa; Dakṣa to be conceived as Prāṇa and Page2-432+ 28 Maru as Saṅkalpa; to them were born 24 daughters, all Viśvamātaras. Vā. 10. 17, 22-3; 67. 27-8. [ID=8680]
— The Purana Index
Instigation, Order, or Permission
2 definitions2
instigation, order, or permission
(H3) [Printed book page 698,1] 1.प्र- (pra-)°सूति (°sūti) (प्र- (pra-)), f. (for 2. See below) instigation, order, permission, TS.; TBr.; Kāṭh. [ID=138032]
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Definitions on this page come from 9 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
