Bhratrijaya, Bhrātṛjāyā, Bhratri-jaya: 8 definitions
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Bhratrijaya has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Bhrātṛjāyā can be transliterated into English as Bhratrjaya or Bhratrijaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchBhrātṛjāyā (भ्रातृजाया):—[(bhrātar + jā)] f. des Bruders Frau [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 30.] [Meghadūta 10] (uneig.).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungBhrātṛjāyā (भ्रातृजाया):—f. des Bruders (uneig.) Frau.
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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