Mahaghasa, Mahāghāsa: 5 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Mahāghāsa (महाघास).—mfn.

(-saḥ-sā-saṃ) Abounding with grass or fodder. E. mahā, ghāsa grass.

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

1) Mahāghasa (महाघस):—[=mahā-ghasa] [from mahā > mah] m. ‘great eater’, Name of one of Śiva’s attendants, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Mahāghāsa (महाघास):—[=mahā-ghāsa] [from mahā > mah] mfn. abounding with grass or fodder, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) [v.s. ...] m. = mahato mahatyā vā ghāsaḥ, [Pāṇini 6-3, 46], [vArttika] 1.

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

Mahāghāsa (महाघास):—[mahā-ghāsa] (saḥ-sā-saṃ) a. Having much grass.

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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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