Karanavari, Kāraṇavāri, Karana-vari: 2 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kāraṇavāri (कारणवारि).—n. the original water produced at the beginning of the creation.

Kāraṇavāri is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāraṇa and vāri (वारि).

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

Kāraṇavāri (कारणवारि):—[=kāraṇa-vāri] [from kāraṇa > kāra] n. primeval water, the water produced and created (from which as from an original reservoir the Hindūs suppose all the water in the universe to be supplied), [Horace H. Wilson]

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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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