Sampid, Saṃpī�: 2 definitions
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySaṃpī� (संपीड्).�1 U.
1) To compress, press or squeeze together.
2) To torture, harass, oppress, pinch, pain; कण्ठ� जीर्णलताप्रतानवलयेनात्यर्थसंपीडितः (kaṇṭhe jīrṇalatāpratānavalayenātyarthasaṃpīḍita�) Ś.7.11; Ch. P.3.
3) To compute, reckon.
4) To obscure, eclipse.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySampī� (सम्पीड्):—[=-√pī�] [Parasmaipada] -īḍaⲹپ, to compress, press or squeeze together, torment, harass, force ([indeclinable participle] -īḍy = ‘by pressure or force�, ‘forcibly�), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.;
—to reckon up, calculate together, [Sūryasiddhānta; Manvarthamuktāvalī, kullūka bhaṭṭa’s Commentary on manu-smṛti];
� (in [astronomy]) to obscure, eclipse (cf. below).
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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