Prajapatya, Prājāpatya: 17 definitions

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

Prajāpatya (प्रजापत्य):—[Harivaṃśa 2547] falsche Form für prā; vgl. [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 695, v. l.]

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Prājāpatya (प्राजापत्य):—

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Prājāpatya (प्राजापत्य):—

1) patron. Pataṃga’s, Prajāvant’s, Yakṣmanāśana’s, Yajña’s, Vimada's, Viṣṇu’s, Saṃvaraṇa’s und Hiraṇyagarbha’s [Ṛgveda] [Anukramaṇikā] prājāpatyā patron. der Dakṣiṇā ebend.

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

Prajāpatya (प्रजापत्य):—Adj. [Harivaṃśa 2547.] fehlerhaft für prājāpatya.

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Prājāpatya (प्राजापत्य):——

1) Adj. (f. ā) von Prajpati stammend , ihm gehörig , ihm geweicht , ihn betreffend u.s.w. [Āśvalāyana’s Gṛhyasūtra 3,15,8.] vivāha m. eine best. Eheschliessung (ohne Brautkauf) ; nakṣatra oder bha n. das Mondhaus Rohiṇī ; śakaṭa m. n. der Wagen der Rohiṇī (also eig. Adj. von 4)d) ; tithi m. er achte Tag in der dunklen Hälfte des Monats Pauṣa ; prājāpatyāścatvāraḥ padastobhāḥ Namen von Sāman. Superl. prājāpatyatama [Kapiṣṭhalakaṭhasaṃhita 29,8.] —

2) m. — a) Patron. von prajāpati. — b) eine best. Eheschliessung ; s.u. 1). — c) ein in solcher Ehe erzeugter Sohn [Viṣṇusūtra 24,32.] — d) eine best. Kasteiung. — e) ein Kṣatriya und ein Vaiśya [Gopathabrāhmaṇa 2,2,23.Vaitānasūtra 11,19.] — f) *der Zusammenfluss von Gaṅgā und Yamunā. — g) *Nomen proprium des 1ten schwarzen Vāsudeva bei den Jaina. —

3) f. ā Patron. der Dakṣiṇā. —

4) n. — a) Fähigkeit der Zeugung. — b) wohl eine Zeugung in der Weise Prajāpati's. prājāpatyamakārayat so v.a. zeugte Kinder ohne ein Weib [Mahābhārata 1,221,4.] Vgl. sṛjadhvaṃ mānasānputrānprājapatyena karmaṇā [Harivaṃśa 1,45,48.] — c) die Welt Prajāpati's [Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 96,18.] — d) das Mondhaus Rohiṇī. — e) Name verschiedener Sāman. Auch mit den Beiwörtern akṣarya , prayasvant und mādhucchandasa.

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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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