Bahujanya, Bāhujanya: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryBāhujanya (बाहुजन्य).—A great multitude of people, crowd.
Derivable forms: bāhujanyam (बाहुजन्यम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryBahujanya (बहुजन्य).—(usually) adj. (to prec. plus -ya; = Pali bāhujañña and, e.g. SN ii.107.3, v. 262.13, bahu°), pertaining to many people, to a multitude: brahmacaryaṃ cariṣyanti bāhujanyaṃ pṛthubhūtaṃ Divyāvadāna 202.15; (brah- macaryaṃ cirasthitikaṃ) syād bahujanyaṃ pṛthubhūtaṃ Divyāvadāna 208.1, 6, 13; possibly subst. nt. (? no context) °yam Mahāvyutpatti 6449, where Kyoto ed. bāhu° with var. bahu°, Mironov bahu°.
Bahujanya can also be spelled as Bāhujanya (बाहुजन्य).
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Bāhujanya (बाहुजन्य).—see bahu°.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Bahujanya (बहुजन्य):—[=bahu-janya] [from bahu > bah] (bāhu-j?), [probably] n. a multitude of people, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) Bāhujanya (बाहुजन्य):—[=bāhu-janya] [from bāhu] mfn. spread among many people, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) [v.s. ...] n. a great multitude of people, crowd, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
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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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