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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

janmasthāna (जन्मस्थान).—n (S) The place of one's birth; i. e. the womb or the natal land. 2 The sign of one's nativity. janmasthānīṃ laghuśaṅkā karaṇēṃ To commit incest with one's mother. 2 To requite evil to a benefactor.

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

janmasthāna (जन्मस्थान).—n The place of one's birth; i. e. the womb or the natal land.

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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: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Janmasthāna (जन्मस्थान).—n. birthplace, home, [Pañcatantra] 247, 4.

Janmasthāna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms janman and sthāna (स्थान).

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

Janmasthāna (जन्मस्थान).—[neuter] birthplace, home.

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

1) Janmasthāna (जन्मस्थान):—[=janma-sthāna] [from janma > janīya] n. = -kṣetra, [Horace H. Wilson]

2) [v.s. ...] = -bhū, [Pañcatantra v, 6, 2/3; Vetāla-pañcaviṃśatikā]

3) [v.s. ...] the womb, [Horace H. Wilson]

[Sanskrit to German]

Janmasthana 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.

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Partial matches: Janman, Sthana.

Full-text: Janasthana, Janmadhara, Brahmaloka.

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Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

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