Annakutayatra, Annakūṭayātrā: 1 definition

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

Annakūṭayātrā (अन्नकूटयात्रा):—[tatpurusha compound] f.

(-trā) The festival of the mountain of boiled rice; a festival of the Hindus in the month of November when they make a pile of boiled rice as a type of the hill Govardhana in Vraja, near Mathurā, upheld by Kṛṣṇa for the shelter of the milkmaids. It is called also Govardhanapūjā and observed especially by cowherds. E. annakūṭa and yātrā.

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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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