The corpus record — Sanskrit

praśnān

Helm

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Distribution

Prasna Upanisad 2 · 3.06/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 2 · 0.26/10k
Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k

Senses

1. ةرَسنَ-

Helm

2. praśna

2. praśna m. (√ prach) a question, demand, interrogation, query, inquiry after ( comp. ; cf. kuśalap), ŚBr. &c. &c.

3. praśna

a subject of inquiry, point at issue, controversy, problem, ŚBr. &c. &c. (praśnamprabrū, ‘to decide a controverted point’; nami, with acc. or namāgam, with loc. of pers. , ‘to lay a question before any one for decision’; praśnastavapitari, ‘the point at issue is before thy father’)

4. prasnā

prasnā P. snāti, to enter the water (with or without an acc. ), RV. ; MaitrS. ; Br. : Caus. snapayati, to bathe ( intrans. ) in ( acc. ), RV. ; AV.

Attestations

praśnān Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,1.2
praśnān Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_6,2.3
praśnān Chandogya Upanisad chup_5,3.5
praśnān Prasna Upanisad prup_1.2
praśnān Prasna Upanisad prup_4.2

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) vol. 2, scan p. 215; entry #1976 Review: Under source audit
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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.