Saumitra: 9 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSaumitra (सौमित्र):—(von sumitra und trā)
1) m. metron. Lakṣmaṇa’s [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 27, 83.] —
2) n. a) Freundschaft: vardhana [Kāṭhaka-Recension 36, 15. 37, 9.] — b) Name verschiedener Sāman (das des Sumitra) [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,245,b.] [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 13,6,8. 14,9,13.] [LĀṬY.6,11,4.]
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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Full-text: Saumitri, Saumitriya, Akarnanem, Carana, Sumitra.
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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 5.18.3 < [Chapter 18 - Uddhava Hears the Gopīs’ Words and Returns to Mathurā]
Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Part 14: Contest for Sītā < [Chapter IV - The, birth, marriage, and retreat to the forest of Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa]
Part 4: Story of the thief Kāka < [Chapter V - The kidnapping of Sītā]
Appendix 4.2: New and Rare Words < [Appendices]
The Padma Purana (by N.A. Deshpande)
Chapter 44 - Vijyā Ekādaśī < [Section 6 - Uttara-Khaṇḍa (Concluding Section)]
Chapter 67 - The Commencement of the Sacrifice < [Section 5 - Pātāla-Khaṇḍa (Section on the Nether World)]
The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 27 - The description of the Jaya ablution < [Section 2 - Pūrvabhāga]
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Viṣṇu-sahasranāma (Garland of a Thousand Epithets of Viṣṇu) < [Section 1 - Avantīkṣetra-māhātmya]