Mangalapratisara, Maṅgalapratisara, Mangala-pratisara: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMaṅgalapratisara (मङ्गलप्रतिसर).—
1) an auspicious cord or string, the auspicious thread worn by a married woman round her neck as long as her husband lives; अन्त्रैः कल्पितमङ्गलप्रतिसराः (antraiḥ kalpitamaṅgalapratisarāḥ) (aṅganāḥ) Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 5.18.
2) the cord of an amulet.
Derivable forms: maṅgalapratisaraḥ (मङ्गलप्रतिसरः).
Maṅgalapratisara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms maṅgala and pratisara (प्रतिसर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaṅgalapratisara (मङ्गलप्रतिसर).—m.
(-raḥ) 1. An auspicious string worn by married women round the neck. 2. The cord of an amulet.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Maṅgalapratisara (मङ्गलप्रतिसर):—[=maṅgala-pratisara] [from maṅgala] m. = -sūtra, [Mālatīmādhava]
2) [v.s. ...] the cord of an amulet, [Daśakumāra-carita]
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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: Mankala, Mangala, Pratisara.
Full-text: Mangalasutra.
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