Puttrikaputtra, Puttrikāputtra: 1 definition
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPuttrikāputtra (पुत्त्रिकापुत्त्र).—m.
(-ttraḥ) 1. The son of a daughter, appointed to raise issue for her father; one of the twelve heirs acknowledged by the old Hindu law. 2. A daughter’s son, who by agreement becomes the son of her father, (according to some interpretation.) 3. A daughter who returns to her father’s house being considered as his son, (according to other interpretation.) 4. A grandson in general. E. puttrikā a daughter, and puttra a son.
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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