Pratipadipaka, Pratīpadīpaka, Pratipa-dipaka: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pratīpadīpaka (प्रतीपदीपक).—a particular figure of speech.

Derivable forms: pratīpadīpakam (प्रतीपदीपकम्).

Pratīpadīpaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pratīpa and dīpaka (दीपक).

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

Pratīpadīpaka (प्रतीपदीपक):—[=pratīpa-dīpaka] [from pratīpa] n. a [particular] figure of speech, [Bhaṭṭi-kāvya [Scholiast or Commentator]]

[Sanskrit to German]

Pratipadipaka 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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