Mahanamrika, Māhānāmrika: 1 definition

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

Māhānāmrika (माहानाम्रिक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A Brahmana versed in a peculiar portion of the Vedas. E. mahānāmnī a portion of the Vedas so called, and ṭhañ aff.; also with the final dropped, māhānāmika .

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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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