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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryDattakaputtra (दत्तकपुत्त्र).—m.
(-ttraḥ) A son given away by his natural parents, to persons engaging to adopt him; one of the twelve heirs acknowledged by the old Hindu law. E. dattaka, and puttra a son; also simply dattaka, and sometimes dattrima.
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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