Karmanamadheya, Karmanāmadheya, Karman-namadheya: 1 definition

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[«previous next»] — Karmanamadheya in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Karmanāmadheya (कर्मनामधेय).—Name of an act or sacrifice. These names are not arbitrary or technical such as गुण (guṇa) and वृद्धि (vṛddhi) but are always significant; सर्वेष्वेव कर्मनामधेयेषु अर्थसमन्वयेनानुवाद- भूतो नामशद्बो वर्तते, न लौकिकार्थतिरस्कारेण परिभाषामात्रेण वृद्धिगुणवत् (sarveṣveva karmanāmadheyeṣu arthasamanvayenānuvāda- bhūto nāmaśadbo vartate, na laukikārthatiraskāreṇa paribhāṣāmātreṇa vṛddhiguṇavat) ŚB. on MS.1.6.41.

Derivable forms: karmanāmadheyam (कर्मनामधेयम्).

Karmanāmadheya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms karman and nāmadheya (नामधेय).

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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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