Palajatra, Pālajatrā: 1 definition

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[«previous next»] — Palajatra in Marathi glossary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

pālajatrā (पालजत्रा).—f An assembling and feasting in the fields of the cultivators, esp. at the season of reaping or thrashing. Sacrifice is offered to the guardian deities &c. The word is often used synonymously with ḍavarā q. v. This practice is in the Desh: in the Konkan̤ pālajatrā and, preferably, pālējatrā (from pālā & jatrā) signifies jatrā or an assembly in propitiation of the vanadēvatā or Sylvan deities, when the people (or a person) repair to the woods to cut down pālā or leafy branches for roofing or for ground-burning.

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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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