Mrityagodana, Mṛtyagōdāna, Mṛtyagodāna: 1 definition
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Mrityagodana means something in Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarymṛtyagōdāna (मृत्यगोदान).—n (A formation with mṛta Dead or martya About to die, and gōdāna The gift of a cow. Properly mṛtagōdāna. The gift of a dead or dying cow. A phrase founded on a tale of a miserly fellow who, having a cow at the point of death, and being too penurious to pay the cost of removing her carcass, offered her in gift to a Brahman.) A term for a lean, meagre, spectre-like man or animal; a wretched starveling. 2 Applied also to a mealy-mouthed, sheep-faced fellow.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
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