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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Bakavratin (बकव्रतिन्).—One who practises a deceitful vow.^*

• * Matsya-purāṇa 95. 30.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bakavratin (बकव्रतिन्).—m. 'acting like a crane', a false devotee, religious hypocrite; अधोदृष्टिर्नैष्कृतिकः स्वार्थसाधनतत्परः । शठो मिथ्याविनीतश्च बकव्रतचरो द्विजः (adhodṛṣṭirnaiṣkṛtikaḥ svārthasādhanatatparaḥ | śaṭho mithyāvinītaśca bakavratacaro dvijaḥ) || Manusmṛti 4.196.

Bakavratin is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms baka and vratin (व्रतिन्). See also (synonyms): bakacara, bakavṛtti, bakavratacara, bakavratika.

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

Bakavratin (बकव्रतिन्):—[=baka-vratin] [from baka] m. a hypocrite ([especially] a false devotee), [Manu-smṛti]

[Sanskrit to German]

Bakavratin 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: Baka, Vratin.

Full-text: Bakacara, Bakavratika, Bakavritti, Bakavratacara.

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