Hairanyagarbha, Hairaṇyagarbha: 5 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchHairaṇyagarbha (हैरण्यगर्भ):—
1) adj. dem Hiraṇyagarbha eigen u.s.w. [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [S. 112.] —
2) m. patron. Manu's [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 194.] [Kullūka] zu [9, 158.] Vasiṣṭha’s [Mahābhārata 12, 13209.] — b) ein Verehrer des Hiraṇyagarbha [Oxforder Handschriften 248,a,40. fg.]
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: Hairanya, Garbha.
Full-text: Hiranyagarbha, Marici, Manu.
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