Madhurashtaka, Madhurāṣṭaka, Madhura-ashtaka: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Madhurāṣṭaka can be transliterated into English as Madhurastaka or Madhurashtaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMadhurāṣṭaka (मधुराष्टक).—Name of a collection of 8 verses by Vallabhāchārya.
Derivable forms: madhurāṣṭakam (मधुराष्टकम्).
Madhurāṣṭaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms madhura and aṣṭaka (अष्टक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Madhurāṣṭaka (मधुराष्टक) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—by Vallabhācārya. Hall. p. 147.
—[commentary] Peters. 3, 400.
2) Madhurāṣṭaka (मधुराष्टक):—by Vallabhācārya. Io. 1068. Rgb. 385.
—[commentary] by Ghanaśyāmajī. Peters. 4, 24.
Madhurāṣṭaka (मधुराष्टक):—[from madhura > madhu] n. Name of a collection of 8 verses by Vallabhācārya (in which various attributes of Kṛṣṇa are described, each containing the word madhura), [Catalogue(s)]
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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: Ashtaka, Madhura.
Full-text: Madhvashtaka, Vallabhacarya.
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