Arkavrata, Arka-vrata: 8 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchArkavrata (अर्कव्रत):—(a + vra) n. die Regel, das Gesetz der Sonne. Wenn der König von seinem Volke die Abgabe auf eine eben so unmerkliche Weise erhebt, wie die Sonne während acht Monaten mit ihren Strahlen das Wasser einsaugt, so heisst ein solches Verfahren arkavrata . [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 305.]
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Arkavrata (अर्कव्रत):—[Z. 4 lies 9, 305 Stenzler 8, 305.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungArkavrata (अर्कव्रत):—n. die Weise der Sonne [207,12.]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), 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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Ends with: Saptamyarkavrata.
Full-text: Saptamyarkavrata, Adityavrata, Vrata.
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