Alternative spellings of this word include Dadhyach.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Dadhyac (दध्यच्):—[=dadhy-ac] [from dadhy > dadh] a m. ([nominative case] -aṅ [accusative] -añcam; [dative case] dhīce [genitive case] dhīcas; cf. [Pāṇini 6-1, 170]) ‘sprinkling dadhi’ (cf. dhi-krā and ghṛtācī) Name of a mythical Ṛṣi or sacrificer ([Ṛg-veda i, 80, 16] and [called Aṅgiras] [139, 9] [āṅgirasa] [Tāṇḍya-brāhmaṇa xii, 8]; son of Atharvan cf. ātharvaṇa [Ṛg-veda vi, 16, 14; Bhāgavata-purāṇa iv, 1, 42]; having the head of a horse and teaching the Aśvins to find in Tvaṣṭṛ’s house the madhu or Soma, [Ṛg-veda i, 116 f. and 119; ix, 108, 4]; favoured by Indra [x, 48, 2] who slays 99 Vṛtras or foes with a thunderbolt made of his bones, [i. 84, 13; Bhāgavata-purāṇa vi, 11, 20; viii, 20, 7]; propounder of the Brāhmaṇa called madhu, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa iv, xiv; Bhāgavata-purāṇa vi, 9, 50ff.])

2) [=dadhy-ac] b -anna, etc. See above.

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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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Partial matches: Dadhy, Ac.

Full-text: Vadanyashreshtha, Dadhica, Citti.

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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (by Swāmī Mādhavānanda)

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