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अधिदेवन (adhidevana)

 
Apte
English
अधिदेवनम् [adhidēvanam], Gambling table, board for gambling (अधि उपरि दीव्यते यत्र.)
Apte 1890
English
अधिदेवनं Gambling table, board for gambling (अधि उपरि दीव्यते यत्र.)
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अधि-दे॑वन
n.
 a table or board for gambling,
AV.
ŚBr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
अधिदेवन अधि-देवन, अम्, n., Ved. part of
the house allotted to gambling
the table or board
for gambling.
Goldstucker
English
अधिदेवन n. (-नम्) The ground in a hall, on which gambling
with dice takes place. E. दिव्, with अधि, kṛt aff. ल्युट्.
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
अधिदेवन
पदविभागः - > नपुंसकलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಆಟದ ಹಲಗೆ / ಪಗಡೆಯ ಹಾಸು
निष्पत्तिः - > दिवु (क्रीडादौ) “ल्युट्” (३-३-११७) |
व्युत्पत्तिः - > अधि उपरि दीव्यते यत्र |
Vedic Reference
English
Adhi-devana. — The place where the dice were thrown is thus
designated in the Atharvaveda^1 and the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ^2
according to Lüders.^3 Roth, ^4 followed by Whitney, takes it to
mean ‘gambling-board.’ See Akṣa.
1) v. 31, 6
vi. 70, 1.
2) v. 4, 4, 20. 22, 23.
3) Das Würfelspiel im alten Indien, 11-13.
4) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.