Aptoryaman, Aptoryāman: 3 definitions
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Aptoryāman (अप्तोर्यामन्).—m. Name of a sacrifice and of a verse of the Sāma Veda closing that rite; the last or 7th part of the Jyotiṣṭoma sacrifice.
See also (synonyms): aptoryāma.
1) Aptoryāman (अप्तोर्यामन्):—[=aptor-yāman] [from aptu] ā ([Pbr, [Lāṭyāyana]]) m. a particular way of offering the Soma sacrifice.
2) Āptoryāman (आप्तोर्यामन्):—[=āptor-yāman] [from āp] = apt°, [Mahābhārata; Purāṇa]
Āptoryāman (आप्तोर्यामन्):—m. dass. [Viṣṇupurāṇa I, 85.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 12, 40.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 48, 34.]
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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Partial matches: Yaman.
Full-text: Aptoryama.
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