Maruprapatana, Maru-prapatana: 2 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMaruprapatana (मरुप्रपतन).—the act of throwing one's self from a rock; Mark. P.4.3.
Derivable forms: maruprapatanam (मरुप्रपतनम्).
Maruprapatana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms maru and prapatana (प्रपतन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaruprapatana (मरुप्रपतन):—[=maru-prapatana] [from maru] n. the act of throwing one’s self from a rock, [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa xl, 3] (printed marut-pr).
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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