Pitripaksha, Pitri-paksha, Pitṛpakṣa: 10 definitions
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Pitripaksha has 8 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Pitṛpakṣa can be transliterated into English as Pitrpaksa or Pitripaksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPitṛpakṣa (पितृपक्ष):—(pitar + pakṣa)
1) m. die Monatshälfte der Manen; so heisst die dunkle Hälfte im gauṇa Āśvina [MĀLAMASAT. im Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) m. die Angehörigen des Vaters; adj. auf des Vaters Seite stehend; s. u. pakṣa 5.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPitṛpakṣa (पितृपक्ष):—1. m. —
1) die Monatshälfte der Manen , die dunkele Hälfte im gauṇa Āśvina. —
2) die Partei — , die Seite des Vaters [Mahābhārata 5,140,10.] —
3) Pl. die Väter [Harivaṃśa 3374.]
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Pitṛpakṣa (पितृपक्ष):—2. Adj. väterlicherseits [Kullūka] zu [Mānavadharmaśāstra. 2,32.]
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: Pitri, Paksha.
Full-text: Pretapaksha, Pitarapaksha, Paksharambha, Mahalavada.
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