Curnapada, Cūrṇapada, Curna-pada: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryCūrṇapada (चूर्णपद).—a peculiar exercise, walking backwards and forwards.
Derivable forms: cūrṇapadam (चूर्णपदम्).
Cūrṇapada is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms cūrṇa and pada (पद).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Cūrṇapada (चूर्णपद):—[=cūrṇa-pada] [from cūrṇa > cūrṇ] n. a peculiar movement (walking backwards and forwards), [Daśakumāra-carita xi, 41]
2) [v.s. ...] a kind of easy prose, [Bālarāmāyaṇa x, 78.]
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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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