Amritadrava, Amṛtadrava, Amrita-drava: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Amṛtadrava can be transliterated into English as Amrtadrava or Amritadrava, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAmṛtadrava (अमृतद्रव).—a. shedding nectar.
-vaḥ flow of nectar.
Amṛtadrava is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms amṛta and drava (द्रव).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAmṛtadrava (अमृतद्रव).—mfn.
(-vaḥ-vā-vaṃ) Shedding ambrosia. E. amṛta, and drava dropping.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryAmṛtadrava (अमृतद्रव).—adj., f. vā, flowing with Amṛta (and medicaments), [Śiśupālavadha] 9, 36.
Amṛtadrava is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms amṛta and drava (द्रव).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAmṛtadrava (अमृतद्रव):—[=a-mṛta-drava] [from a-mṛta > a-mūla] mfn. shedding (said of the rays of the moon), [Śiśupāla-vadha ix, 36.]
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusAmṛtadrava (ಅಮೃತದ್ರವ):—[noun] the ambrosia, the food of gods (which is gen. in liquid form).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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