Vrishavrata, Vṛṣavrāta, Vrishan-vrata: 4 definitions
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Vrishavrata has 3 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Vṛṣavrāta can be transliterated into English as Vrsavrata or Vrishavrata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVṛṣavrata (वृषव्रत):—(vṛṣan + vrata) adj. gewaltige Herrschaft führend oder Männer beherrschend: Soma [Ṛgveda 9, 62, 11. 64, 1.]
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Vṛṣavrāta (वृषव्रात):—(vṛṣan + vrāta) adj. einen gewaltigen Haufen oder einen Männerhaufen bildend: die Marut [Ṛgveda 1, 85, 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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