Pindasambandha, Piṇḍasaṃbandha, Pinda-sambandha: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Piṇḍasaṃbandha (पिण्डसंबन्ध).—relationship between a living person and one deceased such as is sufficiently near to qualify the former to offer the obsequial rice-ball to the latter.

Derivable forms: piṇḍasaṃbandhaḥ (पिण्डसंबन्धः).

Piṇḍasaṃbandha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms piṇḍa and saṃbandha (संबन्ध).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Piṇḍasambandha (पिण्डसम्बन्ध).—m.

(-ndhaḥ) Relationship between a living person and one deceased, near enough to qualify the former to offer the obsequial cake to the latter.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Piṇḍasambandha (पिण्डसम्बन्ध):—[=piṇḍa-sambandha] [from piṇḍa > piṇḍ] m. relationship qualifying a living individual to offer Śrāddha oblations to a dead person, [Gautama-dharma-śāstra]

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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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