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पदविराम (padavirAma)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
पदविराम padavirAma
m.
pause after a quarter of a verse
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पद—विराम
m.
the pause after a quarter of a verse,
TPrāt.
Abhyankara Grammar
English
पदविराम pause between two words measuring two mātrās, or equal to the time required for the utter- ance of a long vowel
e. g. in इषे त्वोर्जे त्वा, the pause between इषे and त्वा is measured by two mātrās
cf. पदविरामो द्विमात्रः T. Pr. XXII.13.Some Prātiśākhya texts declare that the pause between two words is of one mātra as at avagraha
cf. R Pr. II.1 and R. T. 35-38.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
पदविराम , so zu lesen st. यद°.