Grabha: 4 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryGrabha (ग्रभ).—[masculine] seizing, taking possession.
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Grābha (ग्राभ).—[masculine] grasper or grasp.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Grabha (ग्रभ):—[from grah] m. the taking possession of [Ṛg-veda vii, 4, 8.]
2) Grābha (ग्राभ):—[from grah] m. ‘one who seizes’, a demon causing diseases, [Atharva-veda xiv, 1, 38]
3) [v.s. ...] what is seized, grasp, [Ṛg-veda viii, 81, 1; ix, 106, 3] (cf. uda-, grāva-, tuvi-, and hasta-grābha.)
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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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Starts with: Grabhana, Grabhanavant, Grabhanavat.
Ends with: Gravagrabha, Hastagrabha, Nigrabha, Tuvigrabha, Udagrabha, Udanagrabha, Udgrabha, Ugrabha.
Full-text: Tuvigrabha, Gravagrabha, Grabh, Gravahasta, Udgrabha, Udagrabha, Tanudushi, Nigrabha, Hastagrabha, Udanagrabha, Garbha, Hastagraha.
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