Brahmacaryavrata, Brahmacarya-vrata: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryBrahmacaryavrata (ब्रह्मचर्यव्रत):—[=brahma-carya-vrata] [from brahma-carya > brahma > brahman] n. a vow of ch°, [Brahma-purāṇa]
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: Vrata, Brahmacarya.
Full-text: Samavrit.
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Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) (by Vijay K. Jain)
Verse 7.28 - The transgressions of the minor vow of contentment with one’s wife < [Chapter 7 - The Five Vows]
Brahma Purana (critical study) (by Surabhi H. Trivedi)
6. Social Mobility < [Social Structure]
4. Varna system (b): Ksatriyas < [Social Structure]
Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 194 - The Marriage of Śrīpati < [Section 3 - Revā-khaṇḍa]
Studies in Indian Literary History (by P. K. God)
8, 9. Fragments of Poems pertaining to King Sambhu, Son of Shivaji < [Volume 3 (1956)]