Svadhakara, Svadhākāra, Svadhākara, Svadha-kara, Svadhākārā: 10 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSvadhākara (स्वधाकर):—adj. den Manen die Speise darbringend oder — Svadhā zurufend [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 127.]
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Svadhākāra (स्वधाकार):—m. der Ruf Svadhā für die Manen [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 12, 4, 32. 15, 14, 7.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 6, 3, 2, 5.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 8, 9, 1.] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 1.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 252.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 29, 9.] [Rgva tch’er rol pa ed. Calc. 313, 6.]
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: Svadha, Kara.
Full-text (+2): Pataga, Agadha, Hantakara, Pitrikriya, Pitrikritya, Pitrikarya, Vashatkara, Annabhuj, Sarvarambha, Vedhas, Havyakavyanna, Pravartaka, Jagadananda, Nilakantha, Vishvabija, Putrika, Omkara, Putraka, Vishva, Havyakavya.
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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (by Swāmī Mādhavānanda)
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 3.252 < [Section XV - Procedure after Feeding]
Verse 9.127 < [Section XVII - Property of one who has no Male Issue: the ‘Appointed Daughter’]
The Shiva Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 41 - Devas eulogise Śiva < [Section 2.2 - Rudra-saṃhitā (2): Satī-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 10 - The mode of sufferings in the Hell < [Section 5 - Umā-Saṃhitā]
Puranic encyclopaedia (by Vettam Mani)
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 10 - The Service Rendered by the Merchant Class (Vaṇik or Vaiśya) < [Section 2 - Dharmāraṇya-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 171 - Dialogue between Śāṇḍilī and the Sages < [Section 3 - Revā-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 6 - Norms of Good Conduct for Householders < [Section 2 - Dharmāraṇya-khaṇḍa]
The Brahmanda Purana (by G.V. Tagare)
Chapter 26 - The Origin of the Liṅga-Image of Śiva < [Section 2 - Anuṣaṅga-pāda]
Chapter 11 - Offering rice-cake (piṇḍa) to the Manes (Pitāmahas) < [Section 3 - Upodghāta-pāda]