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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. समारम्भsamārambha1 Beginning, commencement.
    1. 1 Beginning, commencement.
    2. An enterprise, undertaking, a work, an action; यस्य सर्वे समारम्भाः कामसंकल्पवर्जिताः Bg.4.19; Mb.3.125.4; भव्यमुख्याः समा- रम्भाः ...... तस्य गूढं विपेचिरे R.17.53.
    3. An unguent; see समालम्भ.
    4. Spirit of enterprise; व्यूहानां च समारम्भान् देवगान्धर्वमानुषान् Mb.5.165.1.

    In the Gita4·19

    यस्य सर्वे समारम्भाः कामसङ्कल्पवर्जिताः ।

    yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāmasaṅkalpavarjitāḥ, — Whose inceptions and undertakings are all free from the will of desire, whose works are burned up by the fire of knowledge, him the wise have called a… 4·19
    • समारम्भाःsamārambhāḥnominative plural of the masculine noun samārambha (inception, undertaking).

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. समारम्भsamārambham. undertaking, enterprise MBh. R. &c.
    1. masculine gender undertaking, enterprise MBh. R. etc.
    2. masculine gender spirit of enterprise MBh. v, 990
    3. masculine gender beginning, commencement, S3a1ntis3.
    4. masculine gender wrong reading for समारम्भण, an unguent S3ak. Scholiast or Commentator
  2. समारम्भणsamārambhaṇan. taking in hand, undertaking grasping Ka1v.
    1. neuter gender taking in hand, undertaking grasping Ka1v.
    2. neuter gender anointing (Equivalent to सम्-आलम्भन) S3ak. Scholiast or Commentator
  3. समारम्भिन्samārambhinmfn. (prob.) hung with Cat.

    masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective (probably) hung with catalogue or catalogues