Anakalabhrita, Anākālabhṛta, Anakala-bhrita: 5 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Anākālabhṛta can be transliterated into English as Anakalabhrta or Anakalabhrita, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anākālabhṛta (अनाकालभृत).—one who, to save himself from starvation in a famine, voluntarily becomes a slave of another.

Derivable forms: anākālabhṛtaḥ (अनाकालभृतः).

Anākālabhṛta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anākāla and bhṛta (भृत).

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

Anākālabhṛta (अनाकालभृत).—m.

(-taḥ) A slave, one who has given himself to slavery, in a season of scarcity, for support. E. anākāla, and bhṛta nourished.

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

Anākālabhṛta (अनाकालभृत):—[=an-ākāla-bhṛta] [from an-ākāla] m. a slave who became so voluntarily to avoid starvation in a time of scarcity (also spelt annākāla-bhṛta).

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

Anākālabhṛta (अनाकालभृत):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-taḥ) (In law.) One of the fifteen kinds of slaves (see dāsa): a man who has become a slave voluntarily, for the sake of sustenance at a season of famine. (The less correct reading of this word is annākālabhṛta.) E. anākāla and bhṛta, scil. dāsa.

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

Anākālabhṛta (अनाकालभृत):—[anā+kāla-bhṛta] < [anākāla-bhṛta] (taḥ) 1. m. A slave, one who becomes so in famine.

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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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