Anekagotra, Aneka-gotra: 3 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAnekagotra (अनेकगोत्र).—a. belonging to two families (such as a boy when adopted) i. e. that of his own, and that of his adoptive father.
Anekagotra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aneka and gotra (गोत्र).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnekagotra (अनेकगोत्र):—[=an-eka-gotra] [from an-eka] m. having more families than one id est. two, belonging to two families (or to one as an adopted son).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnekagotra (अनेकगोत्र):—[bahuvrihi compound] m.
(-traḥ) (In Law.) A boy who belongs to different i. e. to two families, viz. to that of his own and to that of his adopted father; comp. asamānagotra; e. g. sarvatrānekagotrāṇāmekoddiṣṭaṃ kṣayehani. See also dvyāmuṣyāyaṇa. E. aneka and gotra.
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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