Kumbhidhanyaka, Kumbhīdhānyaka, Kumbhi-dhanyaka: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKumbhīdhānyaka (कुम्भीधान्यक).—a householder who stores grain; Manusmṛti 4.7.
Derivable forms: kumbhīdhānyakaḥ (कुम्भीधान्यकः).
Kumbhīdhānyaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kumbhī and dhānyaka (धान्यक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryKumbhīdhānyaka (कुम्भीधान्यक).—m.
(-kaḥ) A householder, preserving grain in store for six days, &c. E. kan added to the last.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryKumbhīdhānyaka (कुम्भीधान्यक).—[adjective] = kumbhadhānya.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryKumbhīdhānyaka (कुम्भीधान्यक):—[=kumbhī-dhānyaka] [from kumbhī > kumbha] m. idem, [Manu-smṛti iv, 7] (cf. [Yājñavalkya i, 128.])
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryKumbhīdhānyaka (कुम्भीधान्यक):—[kumbhī-dhānyaka] (kaḥ) 1. m. A householder keeping such grain.
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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