Lokavahya, Lokavāhya, Loka-vahya: 4 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Lokavāhya (लोकवाह्य).—

1) excluded from society, excommunicated.

2) differing from the world, eccentric, singular; उन्मादवन्नृत्यति लोकबाह्यः (unmādavannṛtyati lokabāhyaḥ) Bhāgavata 11.2.4.

-hyaḥ an outcast.

Lokavāhya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms loka and vāhya (वाह्य). See also (synonyms): lokabāhya.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Lokavāhya (लोकवाह्य).—m.

(-hyaḥ) An outcaste, one who observes no sort of institutes, and feeds on the flesh of horses and kine. E. loka mankind, vāhya for vahir without, excluded.

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

Lokavāhya (लोकवाह्य).—m. an outcaste.

Lokavāhya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms loka and vāhya (वाह्य).

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

Lokavāhya (लोकवाह्य):—[loka-vāhya] (yaḥ) 1. m. An outcaste.

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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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