Dantalekhaka, Danta-lekhaka: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryDantalekhaka (दन्तलेखक).—one who earns his bread by painting or marking the teeth.
Derivable forms: dantalekhakaḥ (दन्तलेखकः).
Dantalekhaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms danta and lekhaka (लेखक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryDantalekhaka (दन्तलेखक):—[=danta-lekhaka] [from danta] m. one who lives by painting the teeth, [Kāśikā-vṛtti on Pāṇini 2-2, 17 and vi, 2, 73.]
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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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