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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

khalayajña (खलयज्ञ).—n (S Sacrifice at the thrashing-floor.) A jocose term for the feast of Harvest-home amongst the cultivators. Because they slaughter fowls or a sheep or goat.

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khaḷayajña (खळयज्ञ).—n A jocosely pompous term (amongst Brahmans) for the offerings (of a goat, fowl &c.) and feasting of cultivators on the khaḷēṃ or thrashing floor at the Harvest home. See further under khalayajña.

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

khaḷayajña (खळयज्ञ).—n A jocose term (amongst Brah- mans) for the offerings of (goats, fowls &c. and feastings of) cultiva- tors at harvest.

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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: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Khalayajña (खलयज्ञ):—[=khala-yajña] [from khala] m. a sacrifice performed on a threshing-floor, [Gobhila-śrāddha-kalpa iv.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Khalayajna 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: Yajna, Khala.

Full-text: Khala.

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