Pracchadaka, Pracchādaka: 7 definitions

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Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Pracchadaka in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pracchādaka (प्रच्छादक).—a. Concealing, covering (at the end of comp.).

-kaḥ The song of a wife deserted by her husband (containing a covert description of her sorrows); also [pracchedaka] in this sense.

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

Pracchādaka (प्रच्छादक).—i. e. pra -chad + aka, adj. Covering.

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

Pracchādaka (प्रच्छादक).—[adjective] (—°) = seq. [adjective]

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

1) Pracchādaka (प्रच्छादक):—[=pra-cchādaka] [from pra-cchad] mf(ikā)n. concealing, covering (ifc.), [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa; Suśruta]

2) [v.s. ...] m. the song of a wife deserted by her husband (sung with the accompaniment of a lute and containing a covert description of her sorrows), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Pracchādaka (प्रच्छादक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Pacchāga.

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Pracchadaka 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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