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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation

Janmāndha (जन्मान्ध) refers to a “man born blind”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.3.32 (“The seven celestial sages arrive”).—Accordingly, as the Seven Sages said to Śiva: “[...] O Sadāśiva, we have become the most excellent of all people by your remembering us. Usually you never even come across the path of ambitions and aspirations of ordinary people. O lord, your vision, very difficult to be acquired, is like the fruit stooping down within the reach of the dwarf, like sight to a man born blind (janmāndha), like eloquency acquired by a dumb man, like the indigent meeting with a treasure-trove, like the lame man reaching the top of a high mountain and like the barren woman bearing a child. [...]”.

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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

janmāndha (जन्मांध).—a (S) Blind from birth.

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

janmāndha (जन्मांध).—a Blind from birth.

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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: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Janmāndha (जन्मान्ध).—mfn.

(-ndhaḥ-ndhā-ndhaṃ) Blind from birth. E. janma, and andha blind.

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

Janmāndha (जन्मान्ध):—[from janma > janīya] mfn. = nuṣāndha, [Bhāvaprakāśa v,3/4] (-tva n. abstr.)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Janmāndha (जन्मान्ध):—[janmā+ndha] (ndhaḥ-ndhā-ndhaṃ) a. Born blind.

[Sanskrit to German]

Janmandha 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Janmāṃdha (जन्मांध) [Also spelled janmandh]:—(a) blind since birth, born blind; hence ~[tā] (nf).

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Janmāṃdha (ಜನ್ಮಾಂಧ):—[noun] a man who is born-blind.

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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.

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Partial matches: Janman, Andha.

Starts with: Janmamdhaki, Janmandhatva.

Full-text: Janmandhatva, Janmandh.

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