Brahmabija, Brahmabīja, Brahman-bija: 5 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarybrahmabīja (ब्रह्मबीज).—n (S) Any one sprung from a Brahman.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryBrahmabīja (ब्रह्मबीज).—
1) the mystic syllable om; मनो यच्छेज्जितश्वासो ब्रह्मबीजमविस्मरन् (mano yacchejjitaśvāso brahmabījamavismaran) Bhāgavata 2.1.17.
2) the mulberry tree.
Derivable forms: brahmabījam (ब्रह्मबीजम्).
Brahmabīja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms brahman and bīja (बीज).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Brahmabīja (ब्रह्मबीज):—[=brahma-bīja] [from brahma > brahman] n. ‘seed of the Veda’, the sacred syllable om, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] m. the mulberry tree, [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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