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Source: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

Pramaganda (प्रमगन्द).—The King of Kīkaṭas mentioned in Ṛgveda. (Sūkta 14, Anuvāka 53, Maṇḍala 3, Ṛgveda).

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

General definition (in Hinduism)

Source: archive.org: Vedic index of Names and Subjects

Pramaganda (प्रमगन्द) is the name of a prince in the Rigveda, where he is mentioned as the king of the Kīkaṭas, and where he seems to be designated by the epithet naicāśākha, ‘belonging to a low branch or race’. On the other hand, Yāska takes Pramaganda to mean the ‘son of a usurer’, an explanation that is hardly probable. Hillebrandt thinks that naicāśākha refers not to Pramaganda, but to the Soma plant, the plant being called nīcāśākha, ‘having shoots turned downwards’, and that the passage refers to a raid against the Kīkaṭas, who were not observers of the milk cult or the Soma cult, with the intention of winning their lands where the Soma grew and where there were cows. Böhtlingk, however, questions this view, which is not very probable. A place name is possibly meant by Naicāśākha. The name Pramaganda seems un-Āryan.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Pramaganda (प्रमगन्द):—[=pra-maganda] m. the son of a usurer, [Ṛg-veda iii, 53, 14] ([Sāyaṇa]; others ‘Name of a king’).

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Pramaganda 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pra, Maganda.

Full-text: Naicashakha, Kikata.

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