# प्रायोपवेश (prāyopaveśa)

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प्रायोपवेश (prāyopaveśa) is a Sanskrit word meaning abstaining from food and awaiting death, a vow of fasting unto death.

- **SLP1:** `prAyopaveSa`  **IAST:** prāyopaveśa  **Devanagari:** प्रायोपवेश
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayopavesa
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/prayopavesha/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Other (3 definitions)
- sitting down or lying down on the ground to starve oneself to death  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 708,1] प्रा (prā) यो (yo) पवेश (paveśa) m. [ ID=140139 ]
- abstaining from food and awaiting death  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > प्रायोपवेश (prāyopaveśa) [Printed book page 490-17 ] प्राय - उपवेश (prāya-upaveśa) m. abstaining from food and awaiting the approach of death. [ ID=25471.1 ]
- A vow of fasting unto death.  
  *The Purana Index*
  > प्रायोपवेश (prāyopaveśa) [Printed book page 2-445 ] Prāyopaveśa — vow of fasting unto death practised by Parīkṣit contemplating on Viṣṇu; 1 undertaken by Sukarmā when Indra killed his pupils. 2 [ Footnote: 1) Bhā I. 19. 7.] [ Footnote: 2) Vā. 61. 29. Br. II. 35. 34.] [ ID=8772 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); The Purana Index; Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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