Priyankarana, Priyaṅkaraṇa: 2 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPriyaṅkaraṇa (प्रियङ्करण).—mfn.
(-ṇaḥ-ṇī-ṇaṃ) 1. Acceptable, grateful to. 2. Acting kindly to, who or what does so. n.
(-ṇaṃ) Gratifying, treating kindly, (the act). E. priya, kṛ to do, lyuṭ aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPriyaṅkaraṇa (प्रियङ्करण):—[(ṇaḥ-ṇī-ṇaṃ) a.] Grateful to, kind towards. n. Gratifying act.
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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