Dashayojana, Daśayojana, Dashan-yojana: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Daśayojana can be transliterated into English as Dasayojana or Dashayojana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryDaśayojana (दशयोजन).—a distance of 1 Yojanas; पादाङ्गुष्ठेन चिक्षेप संपूर्णं दशयोजनम् (pādāṅguṣṭhena cikṣepa saṃpūrṇaṃ daśayojanam) Rām.1.1.65; also दशयोजनी (daśayojanī); मोहितेन्द्रियवृत्तिं तं व्यतीत्य दशयोजनीम् (mohitendriyavṛttiṃ taṃ vyatītya daśayojanīm) Kathāsaritsāgara 94.14.
Derivable forms: daśayojanam (दशयोजनम्).
Daśayojana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms daśan and yojana (योजन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Daśayojana (दशयोजन):—[=daśa-yojana] [from daśa] mfn. (daś) 10 times fastened, [Ṛg-veda x, 94, 7]
2) [v.s. ...] n. a distance of 10 Yojanas, [Rāmāyaṇa i, 1, 63]
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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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Partial matches: Dasa, Yojana, Tacan, Taca.
Full-text: Dashayojani, Surabhi.
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