Potadhana, Potādhāna, Pota-adhana: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Potādhāna (पोताधान).—a shoal of small fish.

Derivable forms: potādhānam (पोताधानम्).

Potādhāna is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pota and ādhāna (आधान).

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

Potādhāna (पोताधान).—n. (-na) Small fry, a shoal of young fish. E. pota, and āghāna taking; being caught in bags.

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

Potādhāna (पोताधान):—[from pota] n. small fry, a shoal of young fish, [Vāsavadattā]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Potādhāna (पोताधान):—[potā+dhāna] (naṃ) 1. n. Small fry.

[Sanskrit to German]

Potadhana in German

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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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