Kritaghna, Kṛtaghna, Krita-ghna: 19 definitions

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Kritaghna has 18 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Kṛtaghna can be transliterated into English as Krtaghna or Kritaghna, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Krataghn.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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[Deutsch Wörterbuch]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Kṛtaghna (कृतघ्न):—(kṛta + ghna) adj. f. ā empfangene Wohlthaten zu Nichte machend. der Gutes mit Bösem vergilt, undankbar [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 4, 214. 8, 89. 11, 190.] [Rāmāyaṇa 4. 30, 13.] api ca brahmaṇā gītaṃ ślokaṃ śṛṇu plavaṃgama .. dṛṣṭvā kṛtaghnaṃ kruddhena tannivodha kapīśvara . brahmaghne ca surāpe ca caure bhagnavrate tathā .. niṣkṛtirvihitā rājaṃkṛtaghne nāsti niṣkṛtiḥ . (derselbe Ausspruch mit den Varianten: caure ca gurutalpage und sadbhiḥ statt rājan gibt [Śabdakalpadruma] nach dem [SKANDA-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher im PRĀYAŚCITTATATTVA) 34, 17. fgg.] [Suśruta 2, 169, 11.] [Pañcatantra 203, 6.] [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 240.] Davon nom. abstr. kṛtaghnatā f. Undankbarkeit [Pañcatantra 214, 5.] kṛtaghnatva n. dass. [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 15, 39.]

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Kṛtaghna (कृतघ्न):—, kṛtaghnāḥ ṣoḍaśavidhāḥ sāmavede nirūpitāḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 25,a, Nalopākhyāna 2.] [Sāhityadarpana 199, 13.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Kṛtaghna (कृतघ्न):—Adj. (f. ā) Wohlthaten zu Nichte machend , undankbar. Nom.abstr. f. und tva n.

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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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