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Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
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vol. 1, p. 196
.
abhyukṣaṇam
1
Sprinkling over, wetting;
parasparābhyukṣaṇatatparāṇām
(
tāsām
) R.16.57.
-2
Consecration by sprinkling; (
prokṣaṇa
,
abhyukṣaṇa
and
avokṣaṇa
are thus distinguished;
uttānenaiva hastena prokṣaṇaṃ parikīrtitam | nyañcatābhyukṣaṇaṃ proktaṃ tiraścāvokṣaṇaṃ smṛtam ||
).
The Purāṇa Index
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vol. 1, p. 80
.
Abhyukṣaṇam
— slightly different from
Prokṣaṇam;
the
former is for articles of diet, etc. and the latter for flowers,
grass, etc.; details of the
śrāddha.
Vā. 79. 33.