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आवाह (AvAha)

 
Capeller Eng
English
आवाह
m.
°न
n.
invitation.
Apte
English
आवाहः [āvāhḥ], 1 Marrying.
A religious observance
आवाहाश्च विवाहाश्च सह सूतैर्मया कृताः
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Apte 1890
English
आवाहः Marrying.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
आ-वाह
m.
inviting, invitation,
MBh.
marrying,
L.
N.
of a son of Śvaphalka,
Hariv.
Monier Williams 1872
English
आ-वाह, अस्, m. marrying
N. of a son of Śvaphalka.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
āvāha, m. (= Pali id.), taking in marriage, taking to wife
as in Pali, compounded or associated with vivāha (q.v. in PTSD) giving (a girl) in marriage: Mvy 〔9465〕 = Tib. bag mar blaṅ(s) pa (vivāha 〔9466〕 = bag mar btaṅ ba)
āvāha-vivāha-, cpd., Bbh 〔7.7〕
〔267.12〕, taking and giving in marriage
often rendered, approximately, marriage of a son and of a daughter
āvāho vivāho MSV 〔ii.119.3〕
〔iii.138.9〕. Skt. vivāha marriage seems usually to have no such limitation of meaning, but perhaps āvāha and vivāha have the BHS mgs. in Mbh 〔13.3232〕 (otherwise BR 〔5.1124〕).
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
āvāha (CII 1), marriage of a son
cf. vivāha, ‘marriage
of a daughter’.