saṃvat | संवत् | saMvat
1. saṃ-va/t | सं-व/त् | f. (fr. 2. sam | सम् |; cf. ni-va/t | नि-व/त् |, pra-va/t | प्र-व/त् |) a side, region, tract, RV.; AV.
= saṃgrāma | संग्राम |, Naigh. ii, 17.
2. saṃ-vat | सं-वत् | ind. (a contraction of saṃ-vatsara | सं-वत्सर | below) a year, in the year (in later times esp. of the Vikrama era [beginning in 58 B.C. See vikramāditya | विक्रमादित्य |] as opp. to the Śaka era [in modern times supposed to be founded by Śāli-vāhana; see 3. ṣaka | षक |]; sometimes = ‘in the year of the reign of’), Inscr. &c., IW. 494.
3. saṃ-vat | सं-वत् | mfn. containing the word sam | सम् |, ŚāṅkhBr.
saṃ-vat | सं-वत् | n. N. of a Sāman, PañcavBr.
= saṃgrāma | संग्राम |, Naigh. ii, 17.
2. saṃ-vat | सं-वत् | ind. (a contraction of saṃ-vatsara | सं-वत्सर | below) a year, in the year (in later times esp. of the Vikrama era [beginning in 58 B.C. See vikramāditya | विक्रमादित्य |] as opp. to the Śaka era [in modern times supposed to be founded by Śāli-vāhana; see 3. ṣaka | षक |]; sometimes = ‘in the year of the reign of’), Inscr. &c., IW. 494.
3. saṃ-vat | सं-वत् | mfn. containing the word sam | सम् |, ŚāṅkhBr.
saṃ-vat | सं-वत् | n. N. of a Sāman, PañcavBr.