Gandasahvaya, Gaṇḍasāhvayā, Ganda-sahvaya: 4 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gaṇḍasāhvayā (गण्डसाह्वया).—Name of a river, also called गण्डकी (gaṇḍakī).

Gaṇḍasāhvayā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gaṇḍa and sāhvayā (साह्वया).

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

Gaṇḍasāhvayā (गण्डसाह्वया):—[=gaṇḍa-sāhvayā] [from gaṇḍa > gaṇḍ] f. ‘named after the gaṇḍa’, (probably = gaṇḍakī) Name of a river, [Mahābhārata iii, 14230.]

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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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