Maitrabha: 3 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitrabha (मैत्रभ).—n.
(-bhaṃ) The seventeenth lunar asterism; also Anuradha. E. mitra the deity, presiding over the asterism, aṇ aff. of relation, maitra belonging to Mitra, and bha an asterism.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitrabha (मैत्रभ):—[=maitra-bha] [from maitra] n. = -nakṣatra, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitrabha (मैत्रभ):—[maitra-bha] (bhaḥ) 1. m. The seventeenth lunar asterism, Libra.
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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