Athara Pagadajata, Aṭharā Pagaḍajāta: 1 definition
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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryaṭharā pagaḍajāta (अठरा पगडजात).—f (The castes of the eighteen turbans.) A comprehensive term for the people; tout le monde, the canaille &c.: also for the Asiatic or turban-wearing nations, in contrad. from aṭharā ṭōpakara. 2 Some derive this word from aṭharā & pagaḍā A mark on a die. The last mark being eighteen, they explain the word in the sense, An indiscriminate multitude; a promiscuous assembly.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
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