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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAsurarāja (असुरराज).—
1) the lord of the Asuras.
2) an epithet of Bali, grandson of Prahlāda; यज्ञं चकार सुमहानसुरेन्द्रो महाबलः (yajñaṃ cakāra sumahānasurendro mahābalaḥ) Rām.1.29.6.
Derivable forms: asurarājaḥ (असुरराजः).
Asurarāja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms asura and rāja (राज). See also (synonyms): asurādhipa, asurendra, asurendrāj.
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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