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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Janmadina (जन्मदिन).—Birthday as, fit for Gayāpiṇḍa.^*

• * Vāyu-purāṇa 105. 18.

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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.

Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)

Source: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama Texts

Janmadina (जन्मदिन) refers to “one’s birthday” (which for deities is often celebrated as a festival), as discussed in the thirteenth chapter of the Īśvarasaṃhitā (printed edition), a Pāñcarātra work in 8200 verses and 24 chapters dealing with topics such as routines of temple worship, major and minor festivals, temple-building and initiation.—Description of the chapter [sakalotsava-vidhi]: The following festivals are enumerated and described in this chapter: kṛṣṇa-janmadina-utsava or jayantyutsava (1-86); Rāma’s, Narasiṃha’s and Varāha’s birthdays—which are celebrated in much the same way as the preceding (86-90); [...]. The chapter concludes with a list of rewards for those who see to the celebrations of these festival-occasions (263-266a).

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Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

janmadina (जन्मदिन).—m (S) janmadivasa m (S) Birth-day.

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

janmadina (जन्मदिन) [-divasa, -दिवस].—m Birth-day.

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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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Janmadina (जन्मदिन).—[neuter] birthday.

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

Janmadina (जन्मदिन):—[=janma-dina] [from janma > janīya] n. = -tithi, [Kumāra-sambhava i, 23.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Janmadina in German

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Janmadina (ಜನ್ಮದಿನ):—

1) [noun] the day on which a person is born; the day of birth.

2) [noun] a person’s birth date (in any year following the birth); birthday.

3) [noun] the anniversary of this day; birthday.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Janmadina (जन्मदिन):—n. 1. birthday; 2. anniversary;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Dina, Janman, Tiṇa.

Starts with: Janmadinakrityapaddhati, Janmadinavidhi, Janmadinotsava, Janmatinam.

Ends with: Krishnajanmadina, Narasimhajanmadina, Ramajanmadina, Varahajanmadina.

Full-text: Janmadinotsava, Janmdin.

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Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)

Verse 1.2.225 < [Part 2 - Devotional Service in Practice (sādhana-bhakti)]

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