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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Godāva (गोदाव).—A Janapada of the Ketumāla continent.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 44. 15.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

gōḍavā (गोडवा) [or गोडा, gōḍā].—a (gōḍa) Sweet relatively; i. e. sweet amongst; eminently or designately sweet. 2 fig. Unhackneyed; unhardened; uncontaminated. 3 (Used of water it signifies) Fresh--opp. to salt or brackish: also soft, free from salts. 4 (--Of a tree or plant) Wanting thorns, inermis or unarmed: also agreeable to insects; facile to their depredations. 5 (--Of wood, i. e. of the exterior portion as opp. to the heart or core) Soft or tender. 6 (--Of soil) Sweet or fresh--opp. to saline. 7 (--Of the oils expressed from sesamum and carthamus) Sweet. 8 (--Of a man or person, as gōḍā māṇūsa) Mild, kindly, bland, gentle. 9 (--Of flesh) Sensible, living, quick--opp. to callous, dead, proud. 10 (--Of particular hot, biting, or bitter vegetables, of chilies, suraṇa, karinda &c.) Mild. 11 (--Of varietiesamong plants of narcotic properties, e. g. harīka, khaḍasāmbaḷī &c.) Not narcotic. 12 (--Of serpents) Unvenomous. 13 (--Of a particular animal body or a member) Quick, delicately sensible, highly susceptible (of disease or injury). 14 (--Of fish) Freshwater, i. e. dwelling in rivers. 15 (--Of rice, as gōḍēṃ bhāta) Produced in unsaline soil. 16 (--Of the region of the groin or pubes, as gōḍēṃ āṅga) Vital, mortal, readily susceptible of fatal infliction. 17 (--Of corn or grain, as gōḍā dāṇā) Unsalted. 18 (--Of the genuine Maraṭha, and as opp. to kaḍavā) Pure or unadulterate; unmixed with the blood of a lower class. Synonymous with śuddha. gō0 or gōḍavē gāṇēṃ or sāṅgaṇēṃ To enumerate one's services and good deeds and sweet actings towards; to bring up one's kindnesses and favors and gracious deportment towards. The implication is that the person making this display is disappointed and angry; conceiving himself to have lavished his kindnesses upon an ingrate. gōḍavē gāṇēṃ (not sāṅgaṇēṃ) is also To complain of or murmur about gen.

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

gōḍavā (गोडवा).—a Sweet. (Used of water) Fresh-opp. to salt or brackish. (Of a tree or plant) Wanting thorns; also agreeable to insects. (Of wood) Soft or tender. (Of soil) sweet or fresh-opp. saline. (Of the oils extracted from sesamum and carthamus) Sweet. (Of a man or person) Mild, kindly, gentle bland. (Of fish) Fresh water, i. e. dwelling in rivers. gōḍavē gāṇēṃ, sāṅgaṇēṃ To enumerate one's service and good deeds and good actings towards.

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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.

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Starts with: Godavaj, Godavama, Godavanem, Godavaramishra, Godavari, Godavarimahatmya, Godavariparinaya, Godavariparisara, Godavarisamgama, Godavaritata, Godavaritirtha.

Full-text: Ketumaladvipa, Goda, Kadu.

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