Ratnadipa, Ratna-dipa, Ratnadīpa: 7 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryratnadīpa (रत्नदीप).—m (S) A gem serving as a luminary; a radiant or light-yielding gem. Such gems are fabled to be in Patal.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryRatnadīpa (रत्नदीप).—
1) a jewel-lamp.
2) a gem serving as a lamp; अर्चिस्तुङ्गानभिमुखमपि प्राप्य रत्नप्रदीपान् (arcistuṅgānabhimukhamapi prāpya ratnapradīpān) Meghadūta 7.
Derivable forms: ratnadīpaḥ (रत्नदीपः).
Ratnadīpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ratna and dīpa (दीप). See also (synonyms): ratnapradīpa.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryRatnadīpa (रत्नदीप).—[masculine] jewel-lamp (i.e. a lamp with jewels serving as light).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumRatnadīpa (रत्नदीप) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—jy. by Gaṇapati. Peters. 5, 507.
—by Nāmadeva, pupil of Gopāla. Tod 58.
Ratnadīpa (रत्नदीप):—[=ratna-dīpa] [from ratna] m. ‘j°-lamp’, a lamp in which j° give out light, a gem serving as a light (such gems are fabled to be in Pātāla), [Kathāsaritsāgara; Bhāgavata-purāṇa etc.]
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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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Starts with: Ratnadipaka, Ratnadipariksha, Ratnadipavishvaprakasha.
Full-text: Ratnapradipa, Ratnadipavishvaprakasha, Namadeva, Manidipa, Alaka.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Page 153 < [Volume 16 (1913)]
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Page 148 < [Volume 2 (1872)]
Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 45 - Trilocaneśvara (trilocana-īśvara-liṅga) < [Section 2 - Caturaśīti-liṅga-māhātmya]
Chapter 103 - Greatness of Ānartaka Tīrtha Kūpikā < [Section 1 - Tīrtha-māhātmya]
Chapter 76 - The Power of Trilocana < [Section 2 - Uttarārdha]
Kathasaritsagara (cultural study) (by S. W. Chitale)
House-hold-Articles in ancient India < [Chapter 4 - Social Conditions]
Brihatkatha-kosha (cultural study) (by Himanshu Shekhar Acharya)