Vriddhasena, Vṛddhasena: 3 definitions
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Vriddhasena has 2 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Vṛddhasena can be transliterated into English as Vrddhasena or Vriddhasena, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVṛddhasena (वृद्धसेन):—(vṛddha + senā)
1) adj. grosse Wurfgeschosse tragend: die Marut [Ṛgveda 1, 186, 8.] —
2) f. ā Nomen proprium der Gattin Sumati's und Mutter der Devatājit [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 15, 2.]
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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