Alpapunya, Alpapuṇya, Alpa-punya: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAlpapuṇya (अल्पपुण्य).—a. Whose religious merit is small; Rām. Mahābhārata
Alpapuṇya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms alpa and puṇya (पुण्य).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryAlpapuṇya (अल्पपुण्य).—[adjective] of small religious merit or virtue, wicked, miserable.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAlpapuṇya (अल्पपुण्य):—[=alpa-puṇya] [from alpa] mf(ā)n. whose religious merit is small, [Mahābhārata iii, 2650; Rāmāyaṇa vi, 95, 20.]
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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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