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आपोशान

   { āpōśānḥ }
Script: Devanagari

आपोशान

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
आपो—ऽशान  mfn. mfn.taking water’ ([आपस् being a rare form of the acc. for अपस्]) i.e. sipping water
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आपो ऽशान
आपो—ऽशान  n. n. sipping water before and after eating.
ROOTS:
आपो ऽशान

आपोशान

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
आपोशानः [āpōśānḥ]  N. N. of a kind of prayer or formula repeated before and after eating (the formulas being respectively अमृतोपस्तरणमसि स्वाहा and अमृतापिधानमसि स्वाहा); आपोशानक्रियापूर्वं सत्कृतान्नमकुत्सयन् [Y.1.31,16.] -नम् The act of making an उपस्तरण (seat) and अपिधान (covering) for the food eaten.

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