Apraptavayas, Aprāptavayas, Aprapta-vayas: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Aprāptavayas (अप्राप्तवयस्).—a. (in law) under age, not old enough to engage in public business on his own responsibility, a minor (a boy before he reaches his 16th year); अप्राप्तव्यवहारोऽसौ यावत् षोडशवार्षिकः (aprāptavyavahāro'sau yāvat ṣoḍaśavārṣikaḥ) Dakṣa.

Aprāptavayas is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aprāpta and vayas (वयस्). See also (synonyms): aprāptabyavahāra.

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

Aprāptavayas (अप्राप्तवयस्):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n.

(-yāḥ-yāḥ-yaḥ) Not adult, under age; e. g. in the Brāhmaṇavil.: kuta eva parityaktuṃ sutaṃ śakyāmyahaṃ svayam . vālamaprāptavayasamajātavyañjanākṛtim. E. a neg. and prāptavayas.

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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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