Yajnakratu, Yajñakratu, Yajna-kratu: 6 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchYajñakratu (यज्ञक्रतु):—(yajña + kratu) m.
1) eine gottesdienstliche Handlung, Ritus; das Ganze einer Feier, Haupthandlung [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 1, 22.] agniṣṭomaṃ yathā samudraṃ srotyā evaṃ sarve yajñakratavo piyanti [3, 39.] iLādadho nāma yajñakratuḥ [40. 43. 6, 31.] rājasūya [7, 15.] [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa 1, 3, 4, 1. 4, 6, 3. 5, 9, 1. 7, 3, 2. 2, 2, 4, 1.] agnihotra [3, 6, 1. 3, 8, 19, 1. 10, 9, 2.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 3, 1, 7, 3, 6, 4, 3, 4.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 2, 3, 3, 10. 3, 9, 3, 33. 5, 2, 3, 9, 10, 4, 3, 4.] sautrāmaṇī [12, 8, 2, 1.] aśvamedha [13, 4, 1, 1.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 15, 1, 3. 16, 23, 6. 29, 8.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8, 20, 11.] Personif. eine Form Viṣṇu’s [4, 7, 46. 5, 18, 35.] —
2) pl. die Yajña und Kratu genannten Opfer [Weber’s Indische Studien 2, 96. fg.] [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 354.] — Vgl. āhṛta .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungYajñakratu (यज्ञक्रतु):—m. —
1) eine gottesdienstliche Handlung , Ritus ; das Ganze einer Feier , Haupthandlung. —
2) personificirt als eine Form Viṣṇu's. —
3) Pl. die Yajṅa und Kratu genannten Opfer.
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: Kratu, Yajna.
Ends with: Ahritayajnakratu, Mahayajnakratu.
Full-text: Mahayajnakratu, Ahritayajnakratu, Peya, Dasharatra, Pancaratra.
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