Stryagara, Stryāgāra, Stri-agara: 3 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryStryāgāra (स्त्र्यागार).—a harem, the women's apartments.
Derivable forms: stryāgāraḥ (स्त्र्यागारः), stryāgāram (स्त्र्यागारम्).
Stryāgāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms strī and āgāra (आगार).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryStryāgāra (स्त्र्यागार).—(also spelled striyā°, strīyā°, strīkā°, istriyā°, and istrigāra; = Pali itthāgāra, ittha°), nt. sg. or m. (and nt.?) pl., women-folk (collectively), especially used [Page609-b+ 71] of inmates of a harem: n. sg. strīkāgāraṃ (v.l. strīyā°) Mahāvastu ii.424.20; istrigāra Lalitavistara 213.19 (verse); istriyāgāraṃ (v.l. iṣṭiyo stryāg°) Mahāvastu ii.425.15; n. pl. istrigārāḥ (one ms. °rā) Lalitavistara 138.4 (verse); °gārā Lalitavistara 230.3 and (voc.?) 231.6 (verses); acc. pl. stryāgārān Sukhāvatīvyūha 67.15 (but reading uncertain); acc. sg. stryāgāram Mahāvastu ii.426.10 (v.l. striyā°); iii.1.6; 2.11; striyāgāraṃ Mahāvastu ii.426.7 (mss.); iii.1.4 (so read with v.l., ed. strīyā°, metrically inferior); gen. istrigārasya madhye Lalitavistara 215.11 (verse); stem in composition istrigāra-(madhye) Lalitavistara 137.16 (verse); antaḥpura-stryāgāra- Gaṇḍavyūha 359.2; stryāgāra- parivṛta Lalitavistara 14.9 (prose); Mahāvastu iii.437.19; Śikṣāsamuccaya 208.6; [bahuvrīhi] [compound] sa-stryāgāro Mahāvastu i.182.6, 12 (verses).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryStryagāra (स्त्र्यगार):—[=stry-agāra] [from stry > strī] n. the women’s apartments, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]
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: Stry, Agara, Stri.
Full-text: Striyagara, Istriyagara, Agara, Strikagara, Istrigara, Strigriha, Stri, Striya, Oshireti, Avashirati, Oshirati.
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