Hotavya, Hōtavya: 8 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchHotavya (होतव्य):—(von 1. hu) adj. zu opfern: āhuti [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 7, 21.] [GṚHYAS. 1, 16.] samidhaḥ [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 302.] sarpiṣāyutam [PAÑCAR. 3, 14, 39.] dem zu opfern ist: agni [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 24.] n. impers. [Harivaṃśa 297. fg.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 14, 6.]
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: Pratihotavya.
Full-text: Pratihotavya, Parogavyuti, Apasu, Kidrish, Agnidhriya, Accha, Shraddha.
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Mimamsa interpretation of Vedic Injunctions (Vidhi) (by Shreebas Debnath)
Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari (by K. A. Subramania Iyer)
Verse 3.14.497 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (14): Vṛtti-samuddeśa (On Ccomplex Formation)]
Verse 3.14.496 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (14): Vṛtti-samuddeśa (On Ccomplex Formation)]
Verse 3.14.441 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (14): Vṛtti-samuddeśa (On Ccomplex Formation)]
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 2.15 < [Section IV - Conflict of Authorities]