The Sanskrit term Bhṛgupatana can be transliterated into English as Bhrgupatana or Bhrigupatana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Dharmashastra (religious law)

Source: Shodhganga: The saurapurana - a critical study (dharma)

Bhṛgupatana (भृगुपतन) refers to “suicide by falling down from a cliff” according to the Dharmaśāstra taught in the 10th century Saurapurāṇa: one of the various Upapurāṇas depicting Śaivism.—When a person kills a Brāhmaṇa intentionally, he may go without food till he dies or he may commit suicide by falling down from a cliff (bhṛgupatana) or he may enter blazing fire or sacrifice his life either for a Brāhmaṇa or preceptor or he may go to Vārāṇasī and give up his life there.

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Dharmashastra (धर्मशास्त्र, dharmaśāstra) contains the instructions (shastra) regarding religious conduct of livelihood (dharma), ceremonies, jurisprudence (study of law) and more. It is categorized as smriti, an important and authoritative selection of books dealing with the Hindu lifestyle.

India history and geography

Source: Singhi Jain Series: Ratnaprabha-suri’s Kuvalayamala-katha (history)

Bhṛgupatana (भृगुपतन) refers to one of the sixty doctrines of different religious sects that existed in ancient India, as mentioned by Uddyotanasūri in his 8th-century Kuvalayamālā (a Prakrit Campū, similar to Kāvya poetry).—Page 203.20 f.: There is a detailed description of about 60 doctrines of different religious sects and schools of philosophy that had developed before the time of Uddyotanasūri, for example, [Agnihotra] [...]. This list of different sects of Uddyotanasūri’s may be compared with the lists given by Bāṇa in the Harṣacarita (Books 5, 8).

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bhṛgupatana (भृगुपतन).—a fall from a precipice.

Derivable forms: bhṛgupatanam (भृगुपतनम्).

Bhṛgupatana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bhṛgu and patana (पतन).

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

Bhṛgupatana (भृगुपतन):—[=bhṛgu-patana] [from bhṛgu] n. a fall from a precipice, [Daśakumāra-carita]

[Sanskrit to German]

Bhrigupatana 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Bhṛgupatana (ಭೃಗುಪತನ):—[noun] a falling from the top of a tall, steep rock to end one’s life as a retribution for evil done by oneself.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Bhrigu, Patana.

Full-text: Bhrigu.

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