1. pūrvavat
1. pūrvavat mfn. having (or relating to) something preceding or antecedent, VPrāt.
The corpus record — Sanskrit
pūrvavat
1. pūrvavat mfn. having (or relating to) something preceding or antecedent, VPrāt.
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Distribution
- Chandogya Upanisad 37 · 7.9/10k
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 35 · 4.63/10k
- Aitareya Upanisad 2 · 4.13/10k
- Prasna Upanisad 2 · 3.06/10k
- Taittiriya Upanisad 1 · 1.89/10k
Senses
2. pūrvavat
according to something previous (applied in the Nyāya to a kind of inference such as inferring from the previous appearance of a cloud that rain will fall), RV. ; &c.
3. pūrvavat
pūrvavat n. add, ‘reasoning from cause to effect’ (one of the 3 kinds of anumāna, cf. śeṣavat, p. 1332).
Attestations
- pūrvavat Aitareya Upanisad aitup_1,2.3
- pūrvavat Aitareya Upanisad aitup_3.4
- pūrvavat Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,2.4
- pūrvavat Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,2.7
- pūrvavat Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,3.8
- pūrvavat Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,3.22
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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.