Pitripatra, Pitṛpātra: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Pitṛpātra can be transliterated into English as Pitrpatra or Pitripatra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPitṛpātra (पितृपात्र).—n.
(-traṃ) A cup or vessel used at obsequal rites. E. pitṛ, and pātra a cup.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPitṛpātra (पितृपात्र):—[=pitṛ-pātra] [from pitṛ] n. a cup or vessel used at Śrāddha rites, [Horace H. Wilson]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPitṛpātra (पितृपात्र):—[pitṛ-pātra] (traṃ) 1. n. Funeral cup.
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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