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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

satatva (सतत्व).—(S) The first of the three guṇa or properties of created things,--the property of excellence or goodness. See guṇa. It is the principle to which are referred intellectual light, moral goodness, and truth or real being; i. e. knowledge, wisdom, understanding, purity, probity, piety, charity, chastity, gentleness, peaceableness, mercifulness, benevolence, and all the virtuous and amiable sentiments and affections in animated beings, and purity, mildness, blandness, and all the sanative, salutiferous, and beneficial properties and powers in substances or things. The other two properties are raja & tama, which see in their order. 2 Being, existence, substantiality, reality, entity. 3 A substance, an entity, a real being; an elementary or a material substance, any reality of which some property may be predicated. 4 Cream, pith, marrow, sap, essence, the solid substance, the real and material subject or basis of the virtues, excellencies, and influences of. 5 Vigor, virtue, spirit, strength, efficacy, the acting power or principle. 6 Nature, natural property or disposition. sa0 ghēṇēṃ g. of o. To try the goodness or essential quality of; to try the stuff or material (of a thing or a person) sa0 sōḍaṇēṃ To drop, cast, or lose its vigor, virtue, potency, prevalency;--used of a soil, a drug, a mantra or spell, an idol or a shrine, rain &c.sattvāsa jāgaṇēṃ To maintain or preserve in full life and vigorous operation one's virtue, spirit, moral goodness, acting quality &c.

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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.

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Ends with: Samshleshatatva.

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