saṃkrānti | संक्रान्ति | saMkrAnti

saṃ-krānti | सं-क्रान्ति | f. going from one place to another, course or passage or entry into, transference to (loc. or comp.), Kāv.; MārkP.
(in astron.) passage of the sun or a planet from one sign or position in the heavens into another (e.g. uttarāyaṛa-s˚ | उत्तरायऋअ-स्˚ |, ‘passage of the sun to its northern course’ [cf. kūwa-s˚ | कूwअ-स्˚ |]; a day on which a principal Saṃkrānti occurs is kept as a festival, See RTL. 428), Sūryas.
transference of an art (from a teacher to a pupil), Mālav. i, 15, 18
transferring to a picture, image, reflection, W.
= -vādin | -वादिन् |, Buddh.

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