Query is empty or invalid! Please provide a valid query.
?

This search widget will find dictionary entries based on the selected search mode.

You can type text using the chosen transliteration scheme.


Transliteration Schemes

Read about transliteration schemes for typing Sanskrit text with an English keyboard:


Search Modes
  • Exact Word: Finds entries that exactly match the search term.
  • Prefix: Finds words that start with the search term.
  • Regex: Use regular expressions to match the word or its variants.
  • Translations (FTS): Full-text search in entry meanings. Use "word*" for prefix matching.

prākṛta

prā—kṛta See s.v.

mf(A, or I)n. (fr. pra-kṛti) original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.

low, vulgar, unrefined, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

provincial, vernacular, Prākritic, [Vcar.]

(in Sāṃkhya) belonging to or derived from Prakṛti or the original element

(in astron.) N. of one of the 7 divisions of the planetary courses (according to Parāśara comprising the Nakṣatras Svāti, Bharaṇī, Rohiṇī and Kṛttikā)

m. a low or vulgar man, [Mn. viii, 338]; [MBh.] &c.

(with or scil. laya, pralaya &c.) resolution or reabsorption into Prakṛti, the dissolution of the universe, [Pur.]

n. any provincial or vernacular dialect cognate with Sanskṛt (esp. the language spoken by women and inferior characters in the plays, but also occurring in other kinds of literature and usually divided into 4 dialects, viz. Śaurasenī, Māhārāṣṭrī, Apabhraṃśa and Paiśācī), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Kāvyād.] &c.