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Prahelaka (प्रहेलक).—

1) A kind of cake or sweetmeat.

2) A riddle; see प्रहेलिका (prahelikā) below.

Derivable forms: prahelakaḥ (प्रहेलकः).

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prahelaka (प्रहेलक).—n.

(-kaṃ) 1. A riddle, an enigma, a puzzling question. 2. A kind of cake.

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

Prahelaka (प्रहेलक):—[=pra-helaka] n. (√hil?) a kind of pastry. sweetmeat etc. distributed at a festival, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (cf. pra-heṇaka).

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

Prahelaka (प्रहेलक):—(kaṃ) 1. n. Holiday sweetmeats.

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

Prahelaka (प्रहेलक):—n. = vācanaka [Hārāvalī 152.] Nach [Śabdakalpadruma] und [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] = praheṇaka eine Art Backwerk.

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Prahelaka (प्रहेलक):—vgl. oben u. praheṇaka .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Prahelaka (प्रहेलक):—n. = praheṇaka. — prahelikā s. bes.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

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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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Partial matches: Helaka, Pra.

Full-text: Prahenaka, Praheli, Prahela, Vacanaka, Prahelaya, Prahelika, Prahelijnana, Pahiṇaka, Pahenaka.

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