Atipataka, Atipātaka: 8 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Atipātaka (अतिपातक).—A very heinous sin, incest, (mātṛgamanaṃ duhitṛgamanaṃ snuṣāgamanaṃ puṃsāṃ; putrapitṛśvaśuragamanaṃ ca strīṇāṃ, atipātakāni ucyante).

Derivable forms: atipātakam (अतिपातकम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Atipātaka (अतिपातक).—n.

(-kaṃ) Heinous sin, the worst of the great sins. E. ati, and pātaka crime.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Atipātaka (अतिपातक):—[=ati-pātaka] [from ati] n. a very heinous sin.

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

Atipātaka (अतिपातक):—[tatpurusha compound] n.

(-kam) The worst of the great sins, a heinous sin, viz. the sexual intercourse of a man with his mother, daughter or daughter-in-law and that of a woman with her son, father and father-in-law. E. ati and pātaka.

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

Atipātaka (अतिपातक):—[ati-pātaka] (kaṃ) 1. n. Heinous sin.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Atipatāka (अतिपताक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Aipaḍāma.

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Atipataka in German

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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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