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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bāladhana (बालधन).—the property of a minor; Manusmṛti 8.149.

Derivable forms: bāladhanam (बालधनम्).

Bāladhana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bāla and dhana (धन).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Balādhāna (बलाधान).—(-balādhāna), nt. (Sanskrit bala plus Sanskrit ādhāna, on this use of which see [Boehtlingk] s.v. ādhāna 6), assumption, attainment, of (usually some particular) power (said of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas): Mahāvastu i.134.11—12 kṛtaniścaya-balādhānāś ca bhavanti (Bodhisattvas); Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 316.1 śṛṇudhvam idam evaṃrūpaṃ mamādhiṣṭhāna-balādhānam; 414.4 (bodhi- sattvasya) jñānabalādhānena puṇyabalādhānena ca (as manifested in his ‘act of truth’, satyādhiṣṭhāna); 420.7 evaṃ jñānabalādhānaprāptaḥ sa…bodhisattvo bhavi- ṣyati, this B. will be thus arrived at attainment of the power of knowledge; 426.6-7 tathāgatabalādhānena, by the T.'s acquisition of (the) power(s) (appropriate to him).

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

Bāladhana (बालधन).—n.

(-naṃ) The property of a minor or infant. E. bāla, dhana wealth.

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

Bāladhana (बालधन).—[neuter] the property of infants.

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

Bāladhana (बालधन):—[=bāla-dhana] [from bāla] n. the property of a minor or infant, [Manu-smṛti viii, 147.]

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

Bāladhana (बालधन):—[bāla-dhana] (naṃ) 1. n. Property of a child, estate of a minor.

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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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Partial matches: Bala, Dhana, Tana.

Ends with: Shraddhabaladhana.

Full-text: Shraddhabaladhana.

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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)

Verse 8.149 < [Section XXVI - Pledges (ādhi)]

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