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Entry आहो

आहोāhoind.An interjection expressing (a) Doubt or alternative (or), and usually standing as a corelative of किम्; किम्…
An interjection expressing (a) Doubt or alternative (or), and usually standing as a corelative of किम्; किम् वैखानसं व्रतं निषेवितव्यं ... आहो निवत्स्यति समम् हरिणाङ्गनाभिः Ś.1.27; दारत्यागी भवाम्याहो परस्त्रीस्पर्शपांसुलः Ś.5.29. (b) Interrogation.
Derived forms and compounds
- -पुरीषकम् Officiousness, intrepidity, undue boldness of a man (against श्रुति). आहो पुरीषकं स्यात् MS.12.1.6.
- -पुरुषा
  
  -पुरुषिका [अहो पुरुष वुञ् ParasmaipadaII.1.72 मयूरव्यंसकादि]
  
  great self-conceit or pride; आहोपुरुषिका दर्पाद्या स्यात्संभावनात्मनि Ak.; आहोपुरुषिकां पश्य मम सद्रत्नकान्तिभिः Bk.5.27.
  
  military vaunting, boasting.
  
  vaunting of one's own prowess; निजभुज- बलाहोपुरुषिकाम् Bv.1.84. अहो रणरसोत्साहादाहोपुरुषिकामधात् Śiva. B.26.4.
- -स्वित् Indeclinable a particle implying doubt, 'or perhaps', or 'may ... may it be' etc. (corr. of किम्); आहोस्वित्प्रसवो ममापचरितैर्विष्टम्भितो वीरुधाम् Ś.5.9; किं द्विजः पचति आहोस्विद् गच्छति ParasmaipadaVIII.1.44 Sk.
In the Gita17·1

तेषां निष्ठा तु का कृष्ण सत्त्वमाहो रजस्तमः ॥

teṣāṁ niṣṭhā tu kā kṛṣṇa sattvamāho rajastamaḥ. — Arjuna said:- When men sacrifice to God or the gods with faith, but abandon the rule of the Shastra, what is that concentrated will of devotion in… 17·1
- आहोāhoindeclinable interrogative particle (whether, or).
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