The Sanskrit terms Agniśālā and Agniśāla can be transliterated into English as Agnisala or Agnishala, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

agniśālā (अग्निशाला).—f (S) agnyagāra m S agnigṛha n (S) The house in which the consecrated fire is preserved.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Agniśālā (अग्निशाला) or Agniśāla (अग्निशाल).—a fire-sanctuary; °मार्गमादेशय (mārgamādeśaya) Ś.5; a house or place for keeping the sacred fire; °रक्षणाय स्थापितोऽहम् (rakṣaṇāya sthāpito'ham) V.3.

Derivable forms: , agniśālam (अग्निशालम्).

Agniśālā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms agni and śālā (शाला). See also (synonyms): agniśaraṇa.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Agniśāla (अग्निशाल):—[=agni-śāla] [from agni] ([Atharva-veda]) n. house or place for keeping, the sacrificial fire.

2) Agniśālā (अग्निशाला):—[=agni-śālā] [from agni] f. house or place for keeping, the sacrificial fire.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Agniśāla (अग्निशाल):—[tatpurusha compound] f. n.

(-lā-lam) The house where the sa-cred fire is kept. E. agni and śālā, the latter part of the compound remaining fem. or becoming neuter.

[Sanskrit to German]

Agnishala in German

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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: Shala, Agni, Ani, Cala.

Full-text: Hutashashala, Vahnishala, Vahnigriha, Agnisharana, Agnyagara.

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