Avakirnivrata, Avakīrṇivrata: 3 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAvakīrṇivrata (अवकीर्णिव्रत).—n.
(-taṃ) Penance for an act of incontinency. E. avarkīrṇi and vrata religious obligation.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryAvakīrṇivrata (अवकीर्णिव्रत).—[neuter] penance for incontinency.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryAvakīrṇivrata (अवकीर्णिव्रत):—[ava-kīrṇi-vrata] (taṃ) 1. n. Penance.
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: Avakirni, Vrata.
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