Prakatapritivardhana, Prakaṭaprītivardhana, Prakata-pritivardhana: 2 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPrakaṭaprītivardhana (प्रकटप्रीतिवर्धन).—an epithet of Śiva.
Derivable forms: prakaṭaprītivardhanaḥ (प्रकटप्रीतिवर्धनः).
Prakaṭaprītivardhana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms prakaṭa and prītivardhana (प्रीतिवर्धन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrakaṭaprītivardhana (प्रकटप्रीतिवर्धन):—[=pra-kaṭa-prīti-vardhana] [from pra-kaṭa] 1. pra-kaṭa-prīti-vardhana m. ‘evidently increaser of joy’, Name of Śiva, [Śivagītā, ascribed to the padma-purāṇa]
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: Prakata, Vardhana, Pritivardhana.
Full-text: Prakata.
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