अभ्यासः [abhyāsḥ] 1 Repetition in general; व्याख्याता व्याख्याता इति पदाभ्यासोऽध्यायपरिसमाप्तिं द्योतयति S. B.; T.4.28 नाभ्यासक्रममीक्षते
[Pt.1.151;] [Ms.12.74;] [Y.3.322.] cf. also अन्यायश्च कृतेऽभ्यासः ।
[MS.1.3.26] Repeated practice or exercise, contiuned practice or use; अविरतश्रमाभ्यासात्
[K.3,] [Pt.1.133;] अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते
[Bg.6.35,44] by constant practice (to remain pure and unmodified); 12.12; योग˚
[Y.3.51] practice of concentration; hence sometimes used for 'concentration of mind upon one subject'; ˚निगृहीतेन मनसा
[R.1.23;] so शर˚, अस्त्र˚ &c.
Habit, custom, practice; मिथ्योपपदात् कृञोऽभ्यासे
[P.I. 3.71;] तद् यथाभ्यासं अभिधीयताम् U.1 therefore address me as is your wont; अमङ्गलाभ्यासरतिम्
[Ku.5.65;] [Y.3.68.] Discipline in arms, exercise, military discipline.
Reciting, study, repeated reading or learning by heart; काव्यज्ञशिक्षयाभ्यासः
[K. P.1;] [K.146,2;] [Ms.5.] 4; वेद˚ is of 5 kinds: वेदस्वीकरणं पूर्वं विचारोऽभ्यसनं जपः । तद्दानं चैव शिष्येभ्यो वेदाभ्यासो हि पञ्चधा ॥ Dakṣa.
vicinity, proximity, neighbourhood (for अभ्याश); चूतयष्टिरि- वाभ्यासे (शे) मधौ परभृतोन्मुखी
[Ku.6.2;] (अभ्यासे-शे मधौ must mean here speaking to 'Madhu who was near her' scil. by having manifested himself before her, which fully preserves the simile of Pārvatī, herself silent, speaking to her lover who was near her through her friend); अर्पितेयं तवाभ्यासे सीता पुण्यव्रता वधूः
[U.7.17] given in your charge;
[Śi.3.4;] अभ्यासा-शा-दागतः
[P.II. 1.38] Sk. (ragarded as an Aluk Compound).
(In gram.) Reduplication.
The first syllable of a reduplicated base, reduplicative syllable; पूर्वोऽभ्यासः
[P.VI. 1.4;] अत्र ये द्वे विहिते तयोः पूर्वोऽभ्याससंज्ञः स्यात्
[Sk.] (In Math.) Multiplication.
(In poetry) Repetition of the last verses or lines (as of a chorus); chorus, burden of a song. -Comp.
-गत a. a. approached, gone near.
-परिवर्तिन् a. a. wandering about or near.-योगः abstraction of mind resulting from continuous deep meditation; अभ्यासयोगेन ततो मामिच्छाप्तुं धनञ्जय
[Bg. 12.9.] -लोपः dropping of the reduplicative syllable.-व्यवायः interval caused by the reduplicative syllable; ˚येऽपि though separated by this syllable.