Agrasamdhya, Agrasaṃdhyā, Agra-samdhya: 3 definitions

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

Agrasaṃdhyā (अग्रसंध्या).—f. dawn, [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] [distich] 78 (v. r.). Upa-saṃdhya + m, adv. near twilight, [Śiśupālavadha] 9, 5. Tri-saṃdhya, n. morning, noon, and evening, Mahābhārata 3, 4063. Sa-saṃdhya, adj. 1. vespertine. 2. with the period following the end of a Yuga (see 2.), [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 1, 70 (see the next).

Agrasaṃdhyā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms agra and saṃdhyā (संध्या).

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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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