Punarupanayana: 2 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Punarupanayana (पुनरुपनयन) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a second initiation of a Brahman when the first has been vitiated by partaking of forbidden food. L. 1361. Oppert. Ii, 5229.

2) Punarupanayana (पुनरुपनयन):—[dharma] Ulwar 1386.

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

Punarupanayana (पुनरुपनयन):—[=punar-upanayana] [from punar] n. a second initiation of a Brāhman (when the first has been vitiated by partaking of forbidden food; cf. punaḥ-saṃskāra), [Catalogue(s)]

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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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