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Mahākratu (महाक्रतु).—a great sacrifice; e. g. a horse-sacrifice; तदङ्गमग्र्यं मघवन् महाक्रतोरमुं तुरङ्गं प्रतिमोक्तुमर्हसि (tadaṅgamagryaṃ maghavan mahākratoramuṃ turaṅgaṃ pratimoktumarhasi) R.3.46.

Derivable forms: mahākratuḥ (महाक्रतुः).

Mahākratu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mahā and kratu (क्रतु).

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Mahākratu (महाक्रतु).—[masculine] great sacrifice.

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

Mahākratu (महाक्रतु):—[=mahā-kratu] [from mahā > mah] m. a great sacrifice, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa; Raghuvaṃśa] (cf. -yajña).

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

Mahākratu (महाक्रतु):—[(ma + kratu)] m. ein grosses Opfer (wie das Rājasūya und das Rossopfer) [Mahābhārata 2, 1598.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 40, 12.] [Raghuvaṃśa 3, 46. 69.] — Vgl. mahāyajña .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Mahākratu (महाक्रतु):—m. ein grosses Opfer.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

context information

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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Mahākratu (ಮಹಾಕ್ರತು):—

1) [noun] a big, religious sacrifice.

2) [noun] (math.) a huge number (1 followed by thirty five zeros).

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Kratu, Maha.

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