Kanyadushana, Kanyādūṣaṇa, Kanya-dushana: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Kanyādūṣaṇa can be transliterated into English as Kanyadusana or Kanyadushana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarykanyādūṣaṇa (कन्यादूषण).—n S Violating or defiling a virgin; defloration.
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKanyādūṣaṇa (कन्यादूषण).—defilement of a virgin.
Derivable forms: kanyādūṣaṇam (कन्यादूषणम्).
Kanyādūṣaṇa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kanyā and dūṣaṇa (दूषण).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryKanyādūṣaṇa (कन्यादूषण).—n.
(-ṇaṃ) 1. Defiling a virgin. 2. Calumniating a girl. E. kanyā, and dūṣaṇa spoiling.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Kanyādūṣaṇa (कन्यादूषण):—[=kanyā-dūṣaṇa] [from kanyā > kana] n. defilement of a virgin
2) [v.s. ...] calumniating a maiden.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryKanyādūṣaṇa (कन्यादूषण):—[kanyā-dūṣaṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Defiling a virgin.
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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