The Sanskrit term Dhavalagṛha can be transliterated into English as Dhavalagrha or Dhavalagriha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dhavalagṛha (धवलगृह).—a house whitened with chunam, a place.

Derivable forms: dhavalagṛham (धवलगृहम्).

Dhavalagṛha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dhavala and gṛha (गृह).

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

Dhavalagṛha (धवलगृह):—[=dhavala-gṛha] [from dhavala] n. the upper story of a house (painted wh°), [Pañcatantra; Harṣacarita]

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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: Griha, Dhavala.

Full-text: Dhavala.

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