The Sanskrit term Gauṇapakṣa can be transliterated into English as Gaunapaksa or Gaunapaksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

gauṇapakṣa (गौणपक्ष).—m (S) The minor or weaker side (of an argument, case, position). 2 Used sometimes in the sense of the preceding word.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

gauṇapakṣa (गौणपक्ष).—m The minor or weaker side.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gauṇapakṣa (गौणपक्ष).—the minor or weaker side of an argument &c.

Derivable forms: gauṇapakṣaḥ (गौणपक्षः).

Gauṇapakṣa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gauṇa and pakṣa (पक्ष).

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

Gauṇapakṣa (गौणपक्ष):—[=gauṇa-pakṣa] [from gauṇa] m. the minor or weaker side of an argument, [Horace H. Wilson]

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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: Paksha, Gauna.

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