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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dahra (दह्र).—a. Small, fine, thin.

-hraḥ 1 cavity of the heart, or the heart itself; एवं व्याहृतयश्चासन् प्रणवो ह्यस्य दह्रतः (evaṃ vyāhṛtayaścāsan praṇavo hyasya dahrataḥ) Bhāg. 3.12.44.

2) Fire.

3) A forest-conflagration.

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

Dahra (दह्र).—adj. (not in this sense in Sanskrit; compare dahara, which is much commoner), young: Lalitavistara 100.12; yuvān… navo dahras…212.6; in Mahāvyutpatti 4081; 8734, both times (in Mironov only in 8734) with v.l. dahara; Bodhisattvabhūmi 75.1; 281.12. All prose.

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

Dahra (दह्र).—[adjective] the same; [neuter] dahram [adverb] little.

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

1) Dahra (दह्र):—[from dahara] 1. dahra mfn. small, fine, thin, [Nārāyaṇa-upaniṣad; Āpastamba-dharma-sūtra i, 9, 23] (re para-rātre, ‘in the shorter half of the night’)

2) [from dahara] n. the cavity of the heart, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa iii;vi, 9.]

3) 2. dahra m. a wood on fire, [Uṇādi-vṛtti]

4) fire, [ib.]

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

Dahra (दह्र):—(hraḥ) 1. m. Agni or fire.

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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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Starts with: Dahragni, Dahram, Dahrayaunu.

Full-text: Dahara, Dahram, Dahragni, Dabhra, Agastya.

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